Our trained professionals at California Steam Clean know house fires are devastating.  While this is likely your first experience with a house fire, this is what we deal with each day when it comes to smoke damage in Vacaville. Our years of experience helping Californians reclaim, refresh, and renew their property, allows you to rest assured we will help you make things feel right again. 

Smoke damage is particularly frustrating. It’s insidious. Sometimes smoke damage is even unnoticeable until much later in the cleaning and reclamation process. Don’t worry. We know what to look for and how to clean it. First, we determine what type of smoke damage we are dealing with: wet smoke, dry smoke, or fuel oil smoke.  

Wet Smoke

Burning plastic and rubber produce wet smoke. Usually, it is wet smoke that is thick and black in color, leaving a thick residue that smears easily. This often makes cleanup difficult. Typically, wet smoke is produced from low-heat, slow-burning fires characterized by fewer flames. These types of fires allow time for the smoke to penetrate nooks and crannies, cracks, and crevices within your home, contaminating surfaces and embedding an odor that is sometimes difficult to clear. 

Specialized chemical agents and cleaning methods help in the effort to eradicate the residue left behind by wet smoke. 

Dry Smoke 

Likewise, in a high-temperature, fast-burning fire, dry smoke is produced. Dry smoke is produced when fires have access to plenty of oxygen. This type of high-temperature fire leaves behind powdery ash that typically lands on the tops of most surfaces and is much easier to clean. 

Fuel Oil 

We don’t see fuel oil smoke as often as we do wet or dry smoke, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t prepared for any contingency. Created by a fire in an oil-burning furnace, fuel oil smoke damage creates a very strong odor and can sometimes destroy upholstered items.   

Once we know the kind of smoke and where those areas of smoke penetration are highest, we can determine what cleaning agents and methods work best. There are areas of smoke damage that are more difficult to see than others: damage to fabrics, sneaky stains, and metal corrosion – and what about that smell? 

Fabrics 

After a fire, everything smells like smoke. Everything. Although it’s hard not to start cleaning right away, it’s vitally important that homeowners not try to clean upholstered fabrics, carpets, draperies, or other textiles. Attempts at cleaning without proper chemicals and techniques can make the situation much worse, driving soot, and ash deeper into textiles and making them harder to clean.  

For most textiles, professional deodorizing must happen first to ensure the smoke smell will be completely eradicated once the items are cleaned. Let California Steam Clean assess your textiles and begin the professional cleaning processes that are important to reclaiming your pieces.  

Stains 

Sometimes, smoke stains won’t appear on walls, ceilings, or counter tops for a day or two after a fire. An area that you thought was spared will begin to show small brown or beige looking stains that seep to the surface. We know how to rid those spaces of lurking smoke and stop the seeping before it gets to the surface. 

Metal Corrosion 

Smoke can also corrode metal surfaces. This corrosion, not unlike the stains that appear after the fire is over, seems to come out of nowhere. Homeowners may begin to notice corroded kitchen cabinet hardware, stove tops, even light fixtures. We know to anticipate this possibility and clean metal surfaces before corrosion occurs. 

Smell 

Smoke is sneaky. It infiltrates everything – air conditioning/heating vents, attic spaces, even paint on the walls. Homeowners, who did not have professional cleaning companies help in their recovery, report smelling smoke in their house even years after a fire, especially on a rainy day, or after the house has been shut for even a short period of time, like for a family vacation.  

Home needs to smell like home. The professionals at California Steam Clean are well-versed in the professional cleaning processes to get your house smelling like home again. Once we are done cleaning and restoring your home, you won’t smell smoke again. We guarantee repairing smoke damage in your Vacaville home. 

Smoke Damage in Vacaville

The professional cleaning team at California Steam Clean has seen it all and cleaned it all. We know how important it is to get you back to the place you call home.  

In fact, California Steam Clean offers free estimates and 100% satisfaction guarantee. We are here for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  The sooner we start cleaning, the sooner you start recovering. Don’t wait. Get in touch with us as soon as possible.  We will get to work right away!