How is Fire Damaged Brick and Masonry Restored in Poughkeepsie?

6/16/2021 (Permalink)

Call SERVPRO of NW & SE Dutchess County when it comes to your Poughkeepsie fire damage needs.

Fire Damage can Affect Brick and Other Textured Walls in Your Poughkeepsie Home

When a fire burns in Poughkeepsie, it produces smoke. Many of the belongings in your home contain synthetic substances. When these burn, the smoke produced leaves dense layers of soot on the surfaces within the entire residence. Smoke can become so hot and have enough force behind it from the fire's intense heat that it finds its way into the smallest spaces.

If your Poughkeepsie home contains walls with textured surfaces, fire damage can include soot that adheres to these surfaces. Removing this soot from the deepest places can seem impossible. SERVPRO uses a blasting method to clean these tiny spaces and free them of the residue stuck inside.

Sand Vs. Dry Ice Blasting

Many people are familiar with sandblasting and how it can etch glass. Instead of this dense, highly coarse material, we use a much finer substance. Sodium bicarbonate, sometimes called soda, also has advantages over another option that we occasionally use – dry ice pellets. While it is true that we need to clean up the soda after we use it, we remove this when we vacuum up the soot blasted off the surfaces.

Other advantages of soda over dry ice revolve around cost differences, product availability, handling requirements, and specialized equipment, including protective gear, needed. Also, dry ice pellets can damage softer surfaces like brick or painted stucco, while soda does not create any additional damage.

Fire Damage Restoration for Walls and Ceilings

Some types of smoke accumulate in the upper corners and over doorways and the windows of a home. Blasting these areas can bring them back to the same condition as before the fire damage, "Like it never even happened." Walls and ceilings with textured coverings can sustain some minor peeling where thinner layers of paint existed, but priming these and then repainting can make things like new again, without the odor typical to homes that sustained fire damage.

SERVPRO of NW & SE Dutchess County is always ready and nearby to help resolve all aspects of fire damage and how it can affect your residence in Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, and Beekman. Contact our 24-hour service line at (845) 635-4550, any day of the year, including holidays and weekends.