What Can I Do When Fire Damage Threatens the Bottom Line of My Laconia Business?

4/12/2020 (Permalink)

Contact SERVPRO of the Lakes Region at (603) 527-2518 to see how we can help your business.

Laconia Business Owners Often Reach Out to SERVPRO to Restore Their Commercial Site—We Can Help You

A property manager may require emergency fire restoration services at any point of the year. Restaurants, cafes, or other food outlets are among the most popular businesses to suffer from fire damage in Laconia. However, lighting, electronics malfunctions as well as wiring issues can also lead to a fire loss scenario.

What do fire restoration services cover?
The fire department can extinguish the initial flames and contain the damages. But it is fire restorers that can help get your business back to its preloss condition by performing the cleanup, debris removal, fire restoration, and smoke or odor control. Our company has a litany of experience working with Lakes Region businesses and helping them get back on their feet with a minimum loss of revenue.

What Aspects of Restoration does your service cover?

    •    Fire Cleanup
    •    Debris Removal
    •    Cleaning
    •    Smoke odor control

When can we get to work?
After the fire department extinguishes a commercial property fire in Laconia, you should wait to receive an all-clear from fire marshall before entering the property. In high temperatures, many noxious gases, as well as chemicals, release into the surrounding atmosphere. These can be harmful to ingest, while monoxides and other fire gases can be exceptionally dangerous to your health. These gases usually disperse shortly after the event, but what is left behind is significant blackening, soot deposits, and smoke residues.

How can we prevent further losses occurring during emergency mitigation services?
In cleaning up a fire in your business, one method SERVPRO use is to light dry vacuum soils and soots. Dry and wet soots differ in their relationship to the surface. Some soot bond with the surface and become challenging to remove. By removing any surface-level soots, we can ensure that wet cleaning or sponging does not push loose soots into surfaces and cause further harm. Stubborn soots often respond to chemical action or, in severe cases, cutting techniques like sandblasting, which remove both soot and surface layers altogether.

What are restorable contents?
Fire loss scenarios are categorizable by salvageable and non-salvageable goods. Our restorers have to navigate a tricky equation when making choices about commercial contents. Being able to delineate between is restorable, and what is not is a fundamental part. But equally, the cost of restoration, as well as the time frame, are considerations. A commercial storage warehouse, for example, may require restoration of items of storage. Equally, a retail store may need to scrape large amounts of stock since the costs and timeframe of restoration may be too lengthy.

How do we dispose of non-restorable contents?
The job of commercial fire debris removal here in Laconia requires an intimate knowledge of restoration principals and technology. We operate with national-scale infrastructure, which allows our restorers to use technologies like Esporta washing, Ultrasonic contents cleaning as well as in-house dry cleaning. We are also capable of mobilizing skips and significant transits to transport non-salvageable waste from your business. Our mantra is to restore rather than replace items wherever possible to the benefit of the businesses that we work within this community.

Is fire debris toxic?
Fire debris can often be toxic or have a specific set of disposal guidelines. Our fire restoration technicians are well-versed in the different types of materials and the disposal they require. We can offer sizable human resources for small businesses as well as much more extensive operations. At SERVPRO, we understand how temporary closure can influence your bottom-line, working quickly, and efficiently to ensure the loss of revenues is minimal.

How can we help you with structural cleaning?
Property managers need to provide safe, secure, and sanitary conditions for their workforce at all times. Often a property management disaster like a fire can throw up challenges for both the business and the workforce. Frequently these challenges are beyond the scope of your employees to fix, and you may need to bring in professional restoration services. Businesses at particular risk of fire, such as factories and food outlets, should make sure that their insurance program covers sudden emergencies.

What can we do to get rid of unpleasant odors?
Nothing turns customers away more than unpleasant odors. Combusting materials release various gases into the surrounding area. In an enclosed area, like commercial property, these odors are likely to get trapped and require professional odor removal. All odors dissipate naturally over time, but for many businesses, these timescales may affect revenues or their reputation.

Odor control frequently relies on rapid air-exchanges. Even when using water-based deodorants, odor control technicians need to exchange indoor and outdoor air up to fifty times before it is safe for the business to re-open. We can mobilize and deploy industrial vent box fans, which can help to perform the necessary air exchange. Where natural ventilation may be tight, we can use large exterior dehumidifiers or air scrubbers to ventilate the area effectively.

What devices do we use for odor control?

    •    Air scrubbing
    •    ULV Fogging
    •    Misting
    •    Odor Control Pellets
    •    Box Fans and Venting Equipment

The impacts fire can have on your business are manifold, and you need a restoration service with the human resources, equipment, and experience to perform a timely restoration. Contact SERVPRO of the Lakes Region at (603) 527-2518 to see how we can help your business.

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