Fires can cause immense destruction to your residence, leaving you wondering if things will ever look and feel the same in your household again. Fortunately, with the experience and fast response of trained professionals on our Lightspeed Restoration of Covington team, we have mitigation and recovery solutions to help clean soot and smoke with specific tools.

The Equipment Used in Fire Damage Restoration 

Soot and smoke cleaning for Abita Springs homes and businesses ultimately lean on multiple pieces of equipment and proprietary products from our inventory. Many of these machines and tools are stocked in our fleet of rapid response vehicles, which roll out from our headquarters when homeowners call for help. We understand the urgency of keeping the environment safe, especially with the carcinogenic properties of suspended soot particles. While we can use many tools to help in this process, four are common in smoke and soot cleaning:

  • Chemical Sponges – Dry cleaning soot-covered surfaces often fall to chemical sponges' simple yet reliable composition. These rubbery hand tools grab loose soot residues on surfaces and crumble into pieces when no longer helpful in deposit removal. The product protects substrates suffering from soot damage, and the cleanup is quick.

  • HEPA Filters—Pulling in contaminated air after a fire is extinguished, these purifying units trap and remove particulates like smoke solids and soot particles suspended in the environment. HEPA filters can also be attached to dry vacuums used in the earliest methods of removing loose soot settled on salvageable surfaces.

  • Ozone Machines—Utilizing unstable O3 compounds that are toxic to inhale, ozone machines disperse this aerosolized chemical into the environment to bond with odor molecules and destroy them. Ozone is an effective solution for deodorization when the house is vacant, and there is adequate time for the ozone residual to dissipate. 

  • Hydroxyl Generators—By absorbing UV light, water vapor and oxygen generate hydroxyl radicals that break down odors and pollution compounds in the environment after a fire. While ozone is more universally effective, hydroxyl machines are ideal when the family cannot be relocated. 

Smoke and Soot Damage 

Overcoming the harmful effects of smoke deposits and soot residues can be significant, beginning with the earliest emergency services and mitigation through restoration and even reconstruction. At Lightspeed Restoration, we appreciate the importance of each phase in this path to getting your home back to pre-loss condition. We can help with data collection and damage assessment for claim services, content recovery, soot and smoke removal, deodorization, and even full-scale repairs and reconstruction as necessary. 

After fire damage, your home can be overwhelmed with a need for soot and smoke cleaning. Let our Lightspeed Restoration of Covington experts help you get life back to normal. Call 24/7 at (985) 323-6356.

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