How soon can you expect your house to be restored after a fire?
A house fire can scale from a burnt carpet to an all-consuming inferno. The scale of fire damage depends on a number of factors. No two houses will burn alike. Factors like material, fire rescue responsiveness, the presence of extinguishers, and many others will all determine how much of your house is damaged. Similarly, there is no concrete answer to how long fire restoration work can take.
The length of fire restoration work depends on a number of factors. The most important one is what the size and intensity of the fire was. A single burnt room can be restored in a week. A completely burnt house may several weeks—if not months. There is no set timescale to this process. The better question to ask here is what steps are involved in a typical fire restoration process?
Here, we’re giving you an idea of what you should expect if your house was damaged in a fire.
Warding Off and Boarding Up
The first step after the fire has been extinguished is to protect your property. Your property—even in a burnt state—is an open treasure chest ripe for the picking. Fire restoration services will cordon off your property and board it up with shutters and boards. This will close any openings and gaps in your home. This is to protect your property from looters, vandals, animals, and vagrants.
Damage Assessment
This is the part where the restoration team scopes out and maps out the extent of the damage. They will form rudimentary plans of which areas to tackle first. This process helps to give clarity and direction to the repairs. It also minimizes chances of further damage by targeting the most damaged sections first.
Cleanup
The cleanup of ash, dirt, debris, and soot will be one of the major parts of the restoration. How long this task takes depends on how far the fire spread. In some cases, your possessions can survive relatively unscathed. In other cases, everything may be burnt and reduced to ash and cinder.
Repair
This is the bulk of the work of any fire restoration process. This will include a number of activities from woodwork to plumbing installation to painting and much more. Repairing the whole house will usually take at least a few weeks.
Final Restoration
The final restoration stage will consist of fine tuning the look of your house. Elements like carpeting, wallpaper, and décor are normally finalized in this final step. It will also include any last minute checks for quality control and assurance. Your restoration team may also conduct checks for any remaining fire/smoke damage or signs of water and mold damage.
Conclusion
With the help of professional restoration services, time can flow in a breeze till you get your house back again. Of course you don’t want to sacrifice quality for time. The goal is to have your house back safe and sound as it was in the minimum time possible.
Contact Service Team of Professionals (STOP) for all your fire restoration needs. Our team will do their best to return you to your home in a timely manner. Your house will feel like a brand new home once we are through with it.
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