After a fire
Fire damage cleaning
The fire stops; the soot does not. It is corrosive, it migrates through the ventilation, and every day of waiting costs equipment.
Soot keeps working after the fire
Fire soot is acidic and loaded with chlorides. On a circuit board, a switchboard, a machine tool or a control panel it attacks within days what the fire had not reached. That is why decontamination starts quickly, and why sorting what is recoverable happens at the beginning rather than at the end.
Soot also migrates: through ventilation, ducts and suspended ceilings it settles in spaces nobody thought were affected. We map the area actually reached before quoting, and we protect the clean zones so we do not contaminate them as we work.
Getting back to work by halves
In a workshop or a warehouse it is almost always possible to hand back one part of the building before the other. We set the split with you, we make it physical, and we work on one side while you produce on the other.
That means accepting an order of work driven by your operation rather than by the fire. We propose it; you decide.
What the work covers
Soot decontamination
Floors, walls, structures, accessible machinery.
Air treatment
After decontamination, never instead of it.
Sorting
What is recoverable and what is not, said at the start.
Protection
Clean zones isolated for the duration of the work.
What governs the lead time
The loss adjuster's visit for whatever must be seen as it stands, and the port access pass where the building sits inside a restricted area. We can protect and isolate before that visit; we do not decontaminate before it has happened.
What we will not do
A fire breaks materials. In an older building that exposes or fragments material liable to contain asbestos: we do not remove it, sweep it or drill it, including where it is already broken. We stop that zone, we report it, and we point you to a licensed firm. We are not loss adjusters either, and we put no figure on a loss.
Questions about this service
- Do we have to wait for the loss adjuster?
- For anything that must be seen as it stands, yes. Protecting clean zones, cutting soot migration through the ventilation and putting at risk items out of harm changes nothing in the findings and happens immediately. We separate the two with you.
- Does the burnt smell eventually go?
- Yes, provided the source is treated rather than the air. A smell that comes back three weeks later means a porous material — insulation, suspended ceiling, textile, duct — was neither treated nor removed. That single point is the difference between work that holds and work that does not.
Give us the window.