Fire Damage

3/7/2019 (Permalink)

Fire Damage

While fire damage can be a total loss to the structure of your home or office, the damage that causes the most anguish is smoke damage. As a fire begins to burn inside of a structure, whether it is from a storm, someone leaving the oven on, or a candle jar busting, fire is fire.

The flames start the first set of damage by charring the surface. With this charring impact, smoke will begin to billow. Always pay attention to things that could cause fire, because fire can start in hiding. Wiring that is faulty can cause an electrical fire thus consuming the structure from inside of the wall. If there is a fire due to faulty wiring, you will often smell a most unique odor that seems to be coming from a vent. Don’t overlook this.

A wire fire will burn inside of the walls with no flame, just heat that starts to melt the wires. Once a flame does appear, you are more that likely to endure serious and total destruction. Smoke damage from a wiring fire causes blankets, clothes and even paper to have a lingering odor long after the fire is put out.

Fire damage has a wide range of potential damage to the structure.

When damage occurs from an ember that shot out of a fireplace, the smoke damage is a bit different. Now you have smoke that is black and thick and will penetrate the pours of almost any cloth surface. So, the fire is out, but the smoke damage remains. The mitigation of smoke damage starts with you calling a professional smoke damage specialist who can come quickly to your home to start the restoration process to your furniture and more.