Our Fire Damage Experts Discuss Dry Cleaning Non-Washable Surfaces In Chicago

8/26/2019 (Permalink)

Call SERVPRO of Marquette Park / West Lawn / Ford City at (773) 337-3993 because our highly trained team can arrive Faster to Any Size Disaster.

Commercial Fire Damage Professionals In Chicago Discuss Dry Cleaning Non-Washable Surfaces

If an inferno ever ignites inside your Chicago furniture store, many of your products or contents could be at risk of getting soiled or ruined. Your porous wall coverings can also get affected by smoke and soot making residue removal a major portion of any commercial fire damage project. The type of surface we are cleaning inside your store dictates whether we can use water-based detergents or if we must dry clean the item.

The general rule our experts use is that if the surface of an object is porous, we use dry cleaning techniques, and if it is non-porous, we use wet cleaning. When working on your commercial fire damage project in Chicago, our SERVPRO technicians know that wet cleaning porous surfaces can soak the soot deeper into them. Many of the contents and building materials inside your furniture store may contain porous surfaces such as vinyl or wallpaper. If your place of business only suffers from a small burn, then there may be steps you or your maintenance team can take to dry clean many of these porous surfaces.

Light soot residues and soils can sometimes easily be wiped away with a rag or a dry sponge. However, before agitating the soot, it is wise to conduct some pre-cleaning procedures. Vacuuming is one of these methods, and it can be used to clean off large soot particles from your furniture items or affected walls. You could use compressed air to blow the heavy soot off of the surfaces before you conduct your dry cleaning methods. In some scenarios, our SERVPRO experts recommend to pre-clean the affected items inside your furniture store with brushes to get some of the soot off.

After pre-cleaning your furniture store's affected surfaces, clean off the remaining soot with a dry sponge. Sponges do not use chemicals to remove soot. Instead, they use friction. Applying the sponge firmly to the affected surface can help release the soils. Sponges should not be used on glossy surfaces because they can smear the residues. The dry sponge also should not be used when attempting to clean greasy residues.

If even a small blaze starts in or near your furniture store in Brighton Park, Scottsdale, Gage Park, or Archer Heights, call SERVPRO of Marquette Park / West Lawn / Ford City at (773) 337-3993 because our highly trained team can arrive Faster to Any Size Disaster.

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