Fire Restoration Steps

5/25/2021 (Permalink)

A home fire can be damaging.

A fire can destroy your home in West Valley City, UT, in a matter of minutes. Even if the house is not a total loss, a lot of damage can still happen quickly, and professional fire restoration is necessary to get your home back to the way it was before the incident. Before technicians can rebuild, they must first clean up the mess left behind.

5 Steps for Fire Restoration

Assessment

The first thing that fire damage mitigation specialists do when they arrive is assess your home. The walkthrough will give them the information they need to plan mitigation:

• Extent of the damage
  
• Effect on structural integrity of home
  
• Places of egress that need boarding up
  

Once the assessment is complete, the technicians provide an itemized list of the steps involved as well as a cost estimate for their services. This information helps you understand the process and timeline and can also assist with your insurance claim.

Extraction

It takes a lot of water to put out a fire. Therefore, before fire restoration can really begin, technicians must extract all standing water and dry the space. Removing the water also makes it easier to determine which parts of the structure must be removed.

Removal

If your walls, ceiling or floors sustain significant water or smoke damage, the materials must be torn out. Any porous material is particularly susceptible to damage that cannot be fixed. If it can't be salvaged, it has to be removed.

Cleaning

The next step is removing soot from remaining surface. The damage cleaning process may involve techniques that mimic the factors involved in the fire so that cleaning agents can get into cracks and crevices.

Restoration

After the remaining structure is thoroughly disinfected, technicians rebuild the structure. The restoration team matches the new walls, floors and ceiling with the remaining ones so that no one can tell where the damage occurred.

The fire restoration starts with assessment and mitigation. The final step isn't finished until your home is back to normal.