Removing Smoke Odors from Office Furniture in Dover Buildings

2/18/2022 (Permalink)

Recovering from a fire at your business location needs to happen very quickly. Contact our experienced technicians to help. Call 24/7.

Post-fire cleanup also involves careful strategies to deodorize fire damage in Dover properties

After a fire loss event, cleaning up means rapidly responding with capable professionals, potent surface cleaning products, and deodorizing equipment. As the soot and post-fire effects spread through office buildings, lingering effects like malodors must be addressed and neutralized. We have several levels of action that we can take for smoke remediation to remove harsh smells after combustion.

Cataloging Content Damage

Fire damage in Dover businesses like offices can be widespread and threatening, so our responding team members need to catalog loss and damage as efficiently as possible. Complete inspections of the property can help to determine varying levels of impact to furniture and electronics, like:

• Soot
• Smoke residues
• Water damage
• Blistering/charring

Thermal Fogging and Counteractants

Reducing the severity of smoke odors in contents can be an important goal of our professionals. The less the concentration of these malodors, the easier they will be to manage in the final deodorization stages. Foggers create a vapor of potent deodorization chemicals that penetrate porous surfaces to eliminate odors. We also have multiple counteractant products that can reduce the severity of malodors on affected surfaces.

Ozone Approaches to Malodor Removal

Ozone machines are one of the most direct and effective deodorization approaches our SERVPRO team uses after a commercial structure fire. These units produce an unstable chemical compound that binds with odor molecules and neutralizes them. While this is unsafe for those unprotected in the environment during this chemical reaction process, once the ozone dissipates, the smoke odors have been resolved, and the atmosphere is safe.

Contents and furniture can become severely damaged in post-fire environments. In large office buildings with open spaces featuring hundreds of items and objects, porous materials absorb damage like odors and require specific attention and approaches to improve. Our SERVPRO of Dover / Stillwater team can help when you call (973) 810-2825.