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What to Salvage or Discard After a Fire
12/22/2020 (Permalink)
Our IICRC certified professionals can help you assess what can be restored and what is not salvageable.
Anyone experiencing a fire damage can feel overcome from the sheer immensity of sorting through their possessions.
Can these objects be salvaged and restored?
Or tossed, and replaced with new effects? How is one to know?
SERVPRO of Charlottesville is “Here to Help”!
Part of our Fire Damage Restoration Process deals with contents restoration.
Our IICRC certified professional technicians will:
- Evaluate each room with you and take inventory of all contents
- Record salvageable and non-salvageable items
Our philosophy is to restore first. But, depending on the proximity to the fire and heat:
- Some articles may be salvaged, such as documents, clothing, and some household goods.
- Other contents will need to be thrown out and replaced, such as food, cosmetics, anything plastic, medication, toiletries, and any alcohol. Fire and heat will change the chemistry of these things, causing them to be contaminated.
For more information about our Contents Claim Inventory Service, click here.
For a video demonstration on cleaning fire damaged contents with our Ultrasonic machine, click here.