As a homeowner, a fire can be your worst nightmare, and the loss, cleanup, and recovery can be challenging. Not only is the structural integrity of your home in jeopardy, but smoke residue can build up and leave an unpleasant lingering odor if left untreated. Because smoke odor sticks around long after the fire is put out, it requires more elbow grease than scented candles or air fresheners. To guarantee smelly odors are gone, it’s best to call a smoke odor restoration company to restore your home to its pre-fire condition. Below, the professionals at Restoration 1 share how to remove smoke odors from your home.
Smoke Odor Removal Tips
Ridding your home of stinky smoke smells can be quite the challenge. When smoke infiltrates your home, tiny particles stick to every household surface and get embedded into porous materials like your walls, furniture, carpets, and even paint. Three types of smoke can cause extensive damage to your home, including:
- Wet Smoke – Plastic and rubber household items will produce this smoke. Wet smoke is heavy, black, and sticky, and comes from slow-burning fires and low heat.
- Dry Smoke – Dry smoke is created by fast-burning, high-temperature fires caused by burning paper or wood. It’s lighter than wet smoke and is the most common during a house fire. While it’s not as difficult to remove as wet smoke if the fire is contained and put out quickly, it finds its way into tiny cracks and porous surfaces because of its powdery texture.
- Protein Smoke – Most often seen in a home, commercial kitchen, or restaurant fire, protein smoke occurs from burning food or other organic materials. Protein residue is difficult to remove and usually requires a professional to completely eliminate the odor.
With so many flammable substances dwelling in your home, you can understand the restoration and odor removal process takes a team of knowledgeable and skilled professionals. If the unthinkable happens, you can depend on Restoration 1 and our fire restoration services. Below we share how we work to remove the smoke smell after a fire:
- Remove the source of the problem – The smoke smell can be overwhelming and nauseating. Once we can safely enter your home, a technician will remove the source of the smell. Items typically include cabinets, furniture, drywall, and other burnt items. These items can either be discarded or restored, depending on the damage.
- Clean what’s salvageable – Items such as your carpets, upholstery, fabrics, and solid surfaces, like window sills and glass, will be cleaned with appropriate cleaning products. Our technicians will take the time to pressure wash, scour, disinfect, and sanitize surfaces to restore them to their original condition.
- Clean the air ducts and HVAC system – Smoke, soot, and odors can permeate ductwork and linger in your ventilation system, compromising air quality. Licensed professionals should be called to inspect and clean the HVAC and ductwork to ensure the air you’re breathing in your home is clean.
- Use a professional smoke damage restoration company – When you partner with a fire restoration and smoke remediation company, our technicians use specialized tools and equipment to remove lingering odors. Our team utilizes a combination of techniques and proven methods to remove smoke odors and restore your home to its pre-fire condition, including:
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- Air Scrubbing
- Thermal Fogging
- Vapor Modification
- Ozone Generation
Smoke Odor Removal by Restoration 1
A home fire can be devastating, but you’re not alone—our team of highly trained individuals has the necessary experience, tools, and resources to make the cleanup process easy. Once our team removes the smoke odor and restores the inside of your home, your property will look great on the outside, and you can guarantee the inside will also be healthy. Contact us today for more information.
