Smoke And Fire Damage In The Home

Your natural reaction after fire and smoke damage is to try and do the restoration work on your own. Although this may be possible in some cases it is more likely that you will need to employ a fire restoration contractor.

You may feel that this will lead to uneccesary expense, but in the long run you are likely to save money and avoid a lot of stress. Hopefully you have taken out adequate fire insurance cover.

Fire restoration is not as straight forward as you would imagine. It takes years of experience to become an expert and requires the use specialist equipment and materials. If you try and do it yourself you will probably cause more damage and make it impossible to restore later.

If you are renting an apartment you should contact the owner as soon as possible and exchange insurance information and agree on the best way forward. In all cases you should make an inventory of what is damaged but do not remove anything until the property has been assesed by the insurance company.

One thing you can do is open the windows to create an air flow to ventilate the property. This will help to remove some of the unpleasant odours caused by the smoke and fire.

If you are unsure about which restoration company to call, your insurance company will most likely be able to recommend someone.