Fans and dehumidifiers will help you do this, but if hoses have been used to put out the Fire Cleaning, you may need to hire professionals to clean items damaged by fire or water.
- Open all windows and doors to allow for more airflow
- Open all windows and doors to allow for more airflow
-If you want to dry the whole house yourself, beware of mold under carpets and floors: Mold can be a big health risk and can irreparably damage floors.
-Clean up the damage caused by smoke on the walls and ceiling: Start by wearing heavy-duty safety glasses and gloves. Especially when cleaning the roof, safety gloves prevent soot from falling on your eyes, while rubber gloves protect your hands from chemical cleaners. Also, wear old clothes that can get stained or damaged.
If your home has suffered serious damage from smoking, consult an experienced professional. Although professional smoking harm elimination can be very complex and potentially harmful to health, there are companies that will perform environmentally-friendly smoke removal procedures.
-If you have to clean the roof, cover the floor with a cloth: This will prevent soot from staining the soil or carpet.
Clean Up Smoke Damage on Walls and Roof
-Remove the free soot present on the surface of the walls: The first step to clean the damage from the smoke is to remove the soot that is on the walls. You can do this using a vacuum cleaner.
1- Remove soot with a commercial cleaning product:
There are many good commercial cleaning products designed to remove soot from walls and other surfaces. You can opt for solutions that are powerful in cleaning up the damage from heavy smoking or that are gentle enough not to affect children and pets.
2- Try to remove the smoke smell from the walls:
After cleaning the soot, you should take care of the smoke smell. The walls can absorb smoke and filter it into the room. There are several household items that you can use to get rid of the lingering smell of smoke from the walls of your home, otherwise, you can opt for white vinegar (also on furniture and floors ). Even though vinegar has a strong odor, it can be a powerful odor neutralizer.
3- Ask a professional to clean the carpets:
After the carpets are completely dry, professional cleaning (which probably needs to be done twice, once after the fire to remove soot and once the pinnacle restoration process in the house is complete) will help to clean them as much as possible.
Clean the Smoke Damage on the Furniture
1- Cleaning Wood Furniture:
Wood furniture should be treated with care to avoid tearing the finish or causing damage permanently.
– Vacuum the furniture soot using a vacuum cleaner and then clean the wood with a dry chemical sponge. This is similar to the process of removing soot on the walls.
-Use a glaze to restore the wood. If you want better results, use a cream polish for the restoration and do not leave it on the wood for more than 5 or 10 minutes.
2- Clean your leather furniture.
Cleaning leather furniture can be tricky because it needs to be treated gently and it cannot be washed like textiles. You can use a mild deodorant to effectively eliminate the bad smell of smoke on leather furniture.
3- Apply skin soap on a clean cloth and wipe it through the skin
For best results follow the instructions on the package. Spray the skin with a mixture of vinegar and water in equal parts. Next, clean up the mixture and wipe the furniture with a clean, damp cloth. Avoid saturating the skin.
– Sprinkle the baking soda liberally on the skin and let it sit overnight. Aspirate the solution the next day and repeat the process if necessary.
The residue produced by fires, can be dangerous to health when it enters a person’s respiratory system. In fact, when these particles enter the pulmonary alveoli they can be released into the bloodstream and reach other parts of the body.
If you want professional help in post fire cleaning, we at Six Lands provide all the means to help you in these cases, cleaning staff, specific products and all our experience.
Six Lands, thanks to the use of professional equipment, specialized personnel and the skills necessary to intervene in complicated environments, offers a direct service to reclaim environments and structures that have suffered destruction due to small fires. It is useful to have a small fire extinguisher available that allows you to quickly put out small fires in the house it is useful to have a small fire extinguisher available that allows you to quickly put out small fires in the house
Before starting with the intervention, evaluations will also be carried out on the conditions of the objects and environments to be treated to decide which of them deserve recovery and can be redeveloped and reused.
