How a Commercial Fire Damage Company Will Restore Your Building

10/23/2017 (Permalink)

How a Commercial Fire Damage Company Will Restore Your Building

If your office or commercial building had an electrical fire or a utility room fire, you need to call a professional fire restoration company. Soot damage and smoke damage are common. These will give your building a horrible odor that can linger for a long time. You may even have blackened or charred walls and ceilings. The firefighters may have broken holes in your walls. Firefighters sometimes do this in order to make sure that the fire is not burning in between the two sides of the wall. Firefighters may shatter windows in order to spray water on the inside of the room from the fire truck’s fire hose. Holes may also be caused by the fire itself. Commercial fire damage comes in other forms as well. For example, your home may become flooded when the firefighters put out the fire using the fire truck’s fire hose. Your building can also get flooded when the fire suppression and fire sprinkler system goes off.

Make an emergency call to a fire restoration company. A fire restoration company will usually arrive as soon as possible to take care of the commercial fire damage. You should not enter your building before you call them, because there may be hazards, such as broken glass.

A fire restoration company will take a look at your building in order to find out how much damage was caused. They will look for the cause of the fire and find out whether it was an electrical fire or a utility room fire. They will plan a strategy for the restoration and renovation of your building.

First, the commercial fire damage company will take care of the water in your building. The fire damage service will use flood pumps to pump out the water in your building that was spread by the fire truck’s fire hose or by the fire suppression and fire sprinkler system. They will remove any excess moisture from your building and will make sure your home is completely dry. Before they do this step, the restoration company will likely board up any holes or broken windows. The reason this might be done before the water is removed is so that further water does not enter the building when it rains in addition to the water that is there because of the fire truck's fire hose. Wooden boards or tarps can be used to board up your building.

The next step is dealing with the soot damage and the smoke damage. The commercial fire damage company will clean up your walls and furniture from ashes and soot. The fire damage company will remove any bad odors that may be lingering in your building, a common form of soot damage and smoke damage. Only professionals have the equipment to deal with soot damage and smoke damage.

The fire damage company will then start repairing the structure of your building. They will start removing burnt parts of your walls and ceiling. The fire damage company will replace certain boards and beams. They will make sure that your ceiling is firm and strong, and they will do the same for your floor. They will repaint your building so that everything looks beautiful again.

Before they leave, the fire restoration company will explain the cause of the electrical fire or the utility room fire. They will give you advice on how to prevent another electrical fire or utility room fire. They will make sure that your fire suppression and fire sprinkler system works. They will also explain how to maintain your fire suppression and fire sprinkler system.
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