Miramar Beach's Fire Damage Experts Discuss Restoring Structural Components

7/31/2018 (Permalink)

Contact SERVPRO after your home sustains any type of fire damage. Our quick response to assess and remediate will help produce great results.

SERVPRO's Technicians Help to Effectively Restore Your Home and Contents After a Fire

Whenever a fire burns a building in Miramar Beach, various types of damage take place. The heat and flames that come from a blaze take their toll and burn anything that is in their path. Smoke coming from the burn will travel throughout the house leaving behind soot residues and pungent aromas. Various items inside your home like your possessions could get affected. It is also possible that your carpets, walls, and ceilings will also get damaged.
 
Insurance policies usually distinguish their coverage of items inside your home placing them in either the structure or contents category. Whenever we mitigate fire damage near Miramar Beach, we separate the scope of work of damage into the two separate categories as well. From the time we complete the initial estimate, we put the damage and work required to mitigate it into its appropriate category. We also clean and restore contents and structural materials separately. In some situations, our SERVPRO technicians even move the contents out of the affected building and into a separate location for cleaning. Other times we move the contents into a clean, unaffected area of the house for cleaning and remediation work.
 
Our SERVPRO crew groups items into the structure category when they are a permanent part of the structure of the building. Therefore things that are permanently attached to a building's framework including walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, and attached floor coverings are all considered structure. Other items that are considered structural components include cabinets, heating and ventilation systems, and bath fixtures. If you could turn a house upside down and shake it, anything that fell out would be placed in the category of the contents, and anything that remained in the house would be put into the structure group.
 
Restoring a structure often takes both remodeling and cleaning procedures. Remodeling involves replacing items that got burnt or charred severely and removed. Cleaning involves restoring fire and smoke damaged items back to preloss conditions. If you ever need help restoring structural components after a fire engulfs your home, call SERVPRO of N. Okaloosa, Walton, Holmes & Washington Counties at (850) 267-0746 seven days a week.
 
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