Marietta, Georgia Water Damage Restoration

In the aftermath of a fire, sometimes the smoke damage can be worse than the fire itself. The odor will linger and will travel throughout other rooms in your home. Our company not only specializes in water damage but we have years of experience in the fire damage business, too. 

We will take care of your home and restore it to its previous condition. We know how valuable your investment is, and we will treat it with the care it needs.

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Fire Damage: Be Alerted Quickly So You Can Get Out Alive 

If you would like to prevent fires in your home, you will need to learn some safety tips and there a lot of them. There are some inexpensive ways in which you can implement them in your home. Learning them now, before you have a fire, is the time. There are many things that you can during a fire that will help your family escape safely. The very first precaution to take is installing smoke and fire detectors in your home.

When you go to buy these fire alert devices , you will be able to buy them at a cost you can afford. Doing this will also help with the lowering of your insurance payments in some cases. Even thought they are inexpensive items, they might even help in the sale of your home, especially if you show that they are in working order. It is just good sense to have these devices installed in any home because they provide a desperately needed service that nothing else does. These devices have saved a lot of lives. Most people that have lived through a fire will say that if it was not for these devices, they might not have made it out of a fire alive..

You can buy smoke detectors at any hardware or home supply store. You need to put them in several different locations in your home. The bigger your home is, the more of them you will need. Your children need to know what these devices are and what they sound like so they will know what to listen for in case there is a fire. They will also need to know how to respond and where to go. This would be your fire escape plan.

Make sure all of your family members have one particular place to meet outside in the event of a home fire. Families do this in order to make sure that everyone has gotten out safely. It is difficult to say whether or not one family member should go back into a burning home to safe another. It would depend on the extent of the fire and much of the home is already in flames. Saving a family member is an instinct that many of us could not deny, but losing two family members is worse than one as grim as that might sound.

Even though it would be a horrible decision to have to make, there are not many parents that would not go back in to save there child. The one way to prevent yourself from having to deal with a life or death situation like this is by being alerted to a fire in your home as quickly as possible. The sooner you know there is a fire that has started, the longer amount of time you and your family will have to escape.

The Best Way To Clean Up Smoke Damage After A Fire

When there has been a fire in your home, it will have smoke damage. Smoke will get on the walls, floors, ceilings, furniture, and everything else. You will have to clean your homes thoroughly, but before you clean anything you have to have your insurance look at the house first. Cleaning the smoke damage out of your house is a lot of work and it take hours to do, but it has to be done. You might need to have professional fire damage experts to clean your home and to disinfect the air because the smoke will cause an odor in your house.

The odor can cause problems to your health because it is harmful to breathe in. The odors can be in your furniture, clothes, bedding, carpets, and more, so you really have to clean them. The professionals can help prevent further damage from getting to your house and they go over every part of your house and make sure it is cleaned out. You will have to get the carpet steam cleaned and go over it a few times to make sure the smoke damage and the odors are out of it. You will need to scrub the walls really good because it will be stained with smoke, you can use warm water and a cleaning product to get the stains out.

When you are cleaning the tables, chairs, drawers, counters, and other hard top surfaces, you can use a scrubbing pad to remove the stains and it will clean the smoke damage off of it. You might want to get upholstered furniture professionally cleaned because it is very hard to get smoke stains and odors out of them. Some things may have to be thrown away because the odors and stains will not come out. You will have to open the windows and doors to let the air get in so it can move out the odors in your house and help take some of the smell out of your things.

You can put a dehumidifier in your house to help with the odor, but you have to have the door and windows closed when you do this. This will also help dry the carpet when you clean them and help to prevent your house from warping or bowing. It will also help stop mold from growing under and on your things because of wetness and moisture. It is a good idea to have the professionals to clean out your house because they are usually able to get the entire cleaning and deodorizing process over and done with faster and more efficiently than you can.