Neutralizing Smoke Odors in Your Bethlehem Home After a Fire

10/24/2017 (Permalink)

If your space heater causes a fire, big or small, call SERVPRO to repair your home and remove the odor left behind.

Cleaning, Repairing and Deodorizing Your Home After Fire Damage

With the cold weather coming in Bethlehem, space heaters are coming back out. They are a popular choice due to their portability and small size, making them easy to reposition. When carefully used, these appliances can be one of your most valued pieces of equipment all winter long. If not used safely, however, these little heaters can pose a fire risk in your home.

If your Bethlehem home has suffered from fire damage due to a space heater, you want to repair the damage as soon as possible, even if it was small. At SERVPRO, our technicians are expertly trained and experienced to handle fire damage of any size, including cleaning up any soot and smoke residues the fire leaves behind.

Removing the smoke odor of a fire-damaged home presents a challenge. Our technicians are more successful at removing them because we understand how odor molecules permeate a structure and how to use various methods of odor removal. We also understand that customers perceive odors in different ways. Our task is to neutralize the odors that you consider unpleasant.

As SERVPRO techs attempt to deodorize, we deal with two kinds of odors – ones real, and ones imagined. The real odor is the sensation of smell caused by a real substance. Odor molecules interact with olfactory nerve cells in your nose. These nerves send messages to your brain which are interpreted by the olfactory lobe. Psychological or imaginary odors are what people believe they are smelling.

Deodorization requires a combination of techniques for it to be successful. Doing so results in all the odors being neutralized in the end. The first step is to get rid of the source causing the odor, and then we clean up the residues. After cleaning, ventilation or air scrubbing to get rid of odor molecules from the air indoors is next.

SERVPRO of Alexander & Caldwell Counties has the experience you need to not only clean and repair your home after fire damage, but remove the odors from smoke as well. Residents in the areas of Bethlehem, Sawmills, or Lenoir should not hesitate to call us at (828) 396-1070 after a fire.

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