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Electrical problems, gas, and candles are some of the common possible causes of fire damage in homes. Whether your home has experienced minor fire damage (such as those caused by candle smoke), or undergoes major structural damage, content cleaning services can provide assistance in cleaning and restoration of your home.

Content cleaning services are usually part of the services offered by a fire damage restoration team. And a fire damage restoration team usually includes several repair and cleaning specialists— from carpenters to craftsmen to content cleaners and restoration specialists. The aim of fire damage restoration specialists is to help bring back the lives of fire disaster victims back to normal.

That objective is, in large part, achieved through content cleaning. Not only that, content cleaning services are offered as an alternative option to purchasing new items in order to replace severely charred household items. With content cleaning, the need for buying new household items is eliminated.

Once you agree to the terms and conditions and the cost estimate of the contractor, cleaning and restoration process of your home will be done.

Fire damage restoration crews may differ in actual restoration and cleaning process, but usually involve the following steps.

1. Emergency cleaning: Content cleaning services includes surface cleaning of damaged parts of the house such as walls and ceilings. The process involves not only removal of visible dirt and soot, but also off unseen traces of fire damage in homes such as smoke odor.

In order to start content cleaning, the fire damage restoration crew will first pre-clean the site.

2. Content cleaning specialists have studied how well certain chemicals react to certain materials, and how certain chemicals can remove smoke and odor more effectively than others. In order to best achieve cleaning up of household contents, many fire damage restoration companies bring an in-house chemist to the site. The role of the chemist is to prepare chemical cleaning solution for specific type of damaged materials.

Using the right kind of chemical is important in the process because some materials are considered high risk. If you use the wrong chemical solution, you might end up damaging them. Materials considered high risk include chrome, tile, marble, aluminum, brass, and porcelain. Different chemical solution is needed to remove soot from materials like carpet and fabric.

3. Content pack-out: Damaged materials are then inspected and assessed to determine the extent of damage. Materials that are deemed salvageable but cannot be cleaned on site are itemized and put inside boxes. These boxed materials will be brought to the treatment plant where they will be cleaned, deodorized, and restored.

4. Once items are packed out and removed from the site, the walls and ceilings will be cleaned and removed of soot. The house will also be deodorized to eliminate smoke odor.

5. At the treatment plant, soot- and smoke-damaged materials will be cleaned, deodorized, laundered, and dry-cleaned. Content cleaning services also include cleaning and restoration of fire-damaged electronic devices such as your television and computer motherboard. Once cleaned and repaired, all material are boxed once again and stored until they’re ready for delivery to your home.

Ramona Weisly is a disaster article writer for NY Restoration Service and Content Cleaning and Restoration