Handling Smoke Damage To Your Furniture

2/2/2021 (Permalink)

Although flames are pretty when they’re dancing in your backyard campfire, they’re suddenly a threat when afflicting your property and leaving some serious ruin in their wake. Fire can cause major damage to your commercial and residential properties, but burning things to a crisp isn’t the only signs of aftermath you have to deal with after a fire runs its course.

In addition to burning everything in sight, flames often leave dust, ash, soot, and smoke, which cause plenty of problems on their own. Smoke, which consists of the gases and vapors that emit from anything that undergoes combustion, seeps into household objects and lingers in the form of a very discernible odor when it soaks into things like furniture, in particular. 

Even if your couches and chairs escape the wrath of flames, smoke damage to your furniture is a very real issue that you may experience. Clothing, furniture, and textile items are vulnerable to smoke seeping into their threads and stuffing, and the odor isn’t one that will simply disappear if you leave your furniture to air out in the sun for a day or two.

To firmly tackle smoke damage, it’s always best to contact your local restoration professionals to deodorize the furniture to ensure odors are completely removed whenever possible. However, while you wait for the experts to arrive, you can do a few things to provide temporary relief. These practices include vacuuming any soot or ash from your furniture, using vinegar spray on visible stains, and wipe any wood furniture with a dry chemical sponge to remove soot.

Once the professional restoration experts arrive, we often use an ozone treatment to produce an oxidizing agent that actually breaks up the smoke molecules to remove their odor. 

Smoke damage calls for deodorization that is complicated, but SERVPRO of Belle Meade/West Nashville has technicians who are specially trained to remove any odors from your home for your health and peace of mind. Call us at (615) 242-9391 for assistance! This franchise is independently owned and operated.