At Last, The Secret to Dealing with Lingering Odors After Fire Damage in Marco Island Is Revealed

9/29/2019 (Permalink)

Finding that a fire has engulfed your home office can be overwhelming. Contact SERVPRO for remediation services.

Odor Elimination Protocol after Fire Damage to Your Marco Island Home

Fire is the type of disaster that keeps on giving. Marco Island homeowners can face challenges days, weeks, and months after the blaze extinguishes. Persistent odors can linger, impairing air quality and providing an unwanted reminder of the crisis endured for you and your loved ones. We offer innovative, up to date odor control and elimination strategies, employing a step-by-step protocol and professional-grade equipment.

Remove Debris to Eliminate the Odor Source

Fire damage leaves your Marco Island home littered with debris, including charred contents and building materials. It is much more efficient to remove and properly dispose of the burned and malodorous items than to deodorize. Our crew members search out, bag, and discard of every charred and fire residue-coated article as a matter of course. Airborne residues can be encouraged to vacate interior spaces through the use of ventilation equipment. Fans and air scrubbers, equipped with HEPA filters, accelerate this process, exhausting the malodors along with the smoke and soot.

Deep-Clean Surfaces

During fire damage cleanup, the SERVPRO team moves from collecting debris to attacking and clearing away residues as an odor-eliminating strategy. The smoke created by the combustion of building materials and contents contains microscopic solids, deposited on surfaces in your home as soot. Each tiny particle can carry malodors, and the smoke and soot move on the super-heated air currents throughout all spaces in your home. Thorough cleaning of fire residues with appropriate products and tools is an effective strategy to reduce the post-fire stench significantly.

Recreate Odor-Causing Conditions

If odors continue to be noticeable even after debris and residue cleanup, combusting deodorizing substances in a thermal fogger is another SERVPRO strategy. The fogger disperses petroleum or solvent-based deodorant particles, reduced to approximate the size of odor-bearing soot solids in the odiferous spaces. Instead of covering up or masking the smells, the deodorant particles pair with the soot residues, neutralizing the malodors through chemical modification.

Seal Surfaces

In some cases, the smell infests porous structural components that cannot be cleaned thoroughly. If removal and replacement are too expensive or impractical, sealing the surface to prevent vaporization of the smell is an alternative. Difficult to reach expanses such as HVAC ductwork are also candidates for sealing. Painting or the spray application of a sealant are typical ways to limit continual odor emissions. 

Employ Cutting-Edge Technology

SERVPRO invests in advanced technology to help manage difficult odor issues. Ozone generators create free radicals that oxidize the odiferous particles, rendering them odorless. Photocatalytic oxidizers use ultraviolet light to produce hydroxyl radicals that deodorize by breaking down smelly residues into non-odorous carbon dioxide and water.

SERVPRO of Naples / Marco Island offers many solutions to persistent odors that trace back to fire damage. Call (239) 302-5700 to set up a deodorization evaluation.

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