Fighting Smoke and Odor Damage After a Commercial Fire

8/21/2020 (Permalink)

Three Methods to Combat Smoke and Odor Damage After a Fire

After a fire at your commercial building there is often a long list of tasks you must take care of before you can reopen your business and get your company back in operation. If there was no structural damage to your building, removing the water may be foremost on your mind, but once the water is gone, what about the smoke cleaning and terrible odors that penetrated everything during the fire? Contact a professional team of fire remediation and restoration specialists to quickly remove the smoke damage and stains. Here are three of the methods they may use to combat the odoriferous problem.

Air Filtration

With the use of specialize screens, an air filtration system can actually scrub the air and remove lingering odors. The unit works by pulling the dirty, smoke filled air into the machine with a powerful fan. The air is then passed through a filter that removes the smoke odor and cleans the air. Once the offensive particles are removed, the clean air is returned into the room. To make sure the filters are especially effective, they are often filled with specially treated charcoal.

Ozone Treatment

Ozone treatments do smoke cleaning by using a machine that sends a thick layer of ozone into the room to cover everything the huge oxygen molecules can reach. As the odors and ozone meet, oxidation occurs that chemically alters the problem smoke. This process can also disinfect problematic areas.

Thermal Foggers

Thermal foggers can send cleaning vapors into tiny crack and crevices where smoke can hide. By sending heated deodorizer out into the room as a foggy vapor, the large cleaning particles can chemically attach themselves to the molecules of the smoke and soot that filled the room in hidden or hard to reach areas. The fog can also permeate many solid items that may have absorbed the fire’s smoke.

By using one of the above three methods, a professional team can quickly remove persistent odors after a fire in your commercial building. Once the smoke cleaning is done, you can then get your building open and your company back in business.