Fire Damage Restoration Service for Fire Odour

Remove all burnt building material and content from the property and its vicinity. More often than not, these items will be beyond economic repair and will carry a lot of permanent odour. Removing them will have a significant impact on the smoke odour and air quality. Always inform your insurance company and take photos as proof of damage before disposal. Install an air purification system to capture airborne particles created during the removal process.

Remove all soft furnishings, rugs, clothing, and bedding from the property and have them cleaned by a specialist fire restoration company – another service CPL t/a Rainbow Restoration can provide. Store these clean items outside of the premises until it is completely free of smoke odour, they may soak up the smell again.

Fog the property with a specialist fire deodorising product. This will penetrate the building the same way as smoke and reach hidden wall, ceiling and floor voids. Wash down and deodorise all building surfaces and fixtures with specialist soot cleaning products. Wipe down and deodorise all hard furnishing with specialist fire damage products. Seal all porous building material like plasterboard and exposed wood with soot damage removal products. This will seal in fire odours and staining leaving the surface ready for redecoration. Clean carpets and upholstery. Smoke particles get embedded deep into the upholstery and carpet fibres, which makes smoke odour very difficult to remove.

Even after all the cleaning and sealing is completed some odours may still be present. At this stage we would use Ozone treatment to deal with these lingering fire and smoke odours. Ozone is a powerful tool in neutralising lingering smoke odours including hard-to-neutralise protein smoke odours. Afterwards, you can reinstate fire damage building surfaces and return clean content.