In the wake of a fire, many people feel lost, displaced, and may even be homeless for a time. Returning to your home (if you can) after the fire has passed can be disheartening at best. Seeing your cherished items covered in ash, damaged by smoke, or worse, entirely obliterated by fire, feels like losing a part of yourself. But all is not lost, with the help of restoration services in Idaho Falls, Steamatic, can assist you in restoring those treasured items and keep your home from getting additional damage from the elements.
Continue reading to discover how Idaho Falls restoration services can restore your home, furniture, and other valuables so that you can get back to living.
What To Do After A Fire
After a house fire, certain steps should be taken in order to avoid additional damage. When a fire occurs in a home, it has the potential to cause supplementary destruction in the form of water damage, mold, and permanent odors. Because of this, it is critical to act fast.
As soon as you are able to, you will need to report the fire to your insurance company. Once you have spoken to your insurance company, they will want to assess and take an inventory of the damage caused by the fire. Additionally, you will need to contact an Idaho Falls restoration company to protect the property and make their own assessment of the damage. This is so that they are able to identify what restoration services are required in order to restore your home and assets back to their pre-loss condition.
Idaho Falls Fire Damage Restoration Services
Quick Response Assessment
First responders can quickly assess the facility and enact immediate, preventative measures to reduce further damage and secure the property. Some damage is invisible to the untrained eye, according to this article from Rogers Home Improvement. This is why, if you are able to, you should always hire an experienced and professional restoration company in Idaho Falls. Without professional assistance, you could end up throwing away items that could have been restored or worse, allow water damage to go untreated, resulting in mold.
Emergency Board-Up
In the event of a fire, if there is any exterior damage that would leave your home exposed to the elements, it needs to be boarded up immediately to prevent additional wreckage such as rain, hail, snow, etc. Steamatic of Idaho Falls offers professional emergency board-up as part of our restoration services to protect your valued property any time day or night.
Pack-Out & On-Site Cleaning
Depending on the extent of the damage caused by the fire, contents can either be cleaned on-site or may need to be removed for processing at our secure facility in Idaho Falls. Common materials that are often removed in the event of a fire include furniture, carpet, doors, and drywall. At Steamatic of Idaho Falls we produce our own line of proven, proprietary chemicals and cleaning equipment to safely and effectively clean and restore your home in Idaho Falls.
Dehumidification and Drying (Water Damage Prevention)
While the first thought you may have when it comes to Idaho Falls fire and smoke restoration is getting rid of the soot, smoke, and other residue left by the fire, water can actually be one of the main issues that a restoration company will need to remove. For example, when a fire occurs in a home, often firefighters will pump hundreds, if not thousands of gallons of water into the house to extinguish the fire, this can occasionally result in standing water in the home. Restoration experts make sure to remove the water and stabilize the environment before tackling the rest of the problems.
Removing Smoke and Soot
It is critical as home or business owner that you do not touch any items in the house, especially if they are covered with soot. Soot is an oily substance that stains materials it lands on such as carpeting, curtains, furniture, etc. Restoration services have specialized heavy-duty vacuums and other cleaning materials that safely and effectively remove soot on the surface and below the surface of your assets.
Restoration
Lastly, an Idaho Falls restoration company can help bring back life to your much loved items you may have that were irreparable. This includes content recovery as well as arts and document recovery. Through our TCC (The Conservation Center) partnership, we are able to provide complete art and fine collectibles restoration. Services include:
- Paintings Conservation: Conservation of works of art on paper, canvas, photography, textiles, and murals.
- Furniture and Decorative Objects Conservation: Includes rare books, sculptures, frames, and gilded objects, antiques, and fine furniture.
- Transportation and installation services
- Disaster response services
- On-site assessments by TCC personnel
Call Steamatic of Idaho Falls Today
After a fire, it’s natural for people to feel overwhelmed at all of the steps and work ahead of them to get back to how life was before the fire occurred. To make these circumstances more bearable for you and your loved ones, you owe it to yourself to hire an Idaho Falls restoration company to handle fire damages.
If you need fire and smoke restoration services or any other type of restoration in Idaho Falls or the surrounding areas, don’t hesitate to call the experts at Steamatic today.