There’s nothing better on a cold winter’s night, than sitting by the fireplace to keep warm. Unfortunately, fires around property can easily get out of control and cause severe damage to surrounding areas often leaving behind a heavy layer of soot.

This soot and carbon build-up can present a number of problems for the property owner, least of which is just cleaning the black stains off affected surfaces.

The lingering smell from soot can hang around for months after the fire, even if the area has seemingly been fully cleaned and all traces of the soot removed.

Additionally, the acidity in the carbon created during the combustion process of the fire can continue to eat away at surfaces long after the flames have gone out, and even continue after the cleaning up of the soot has been completed.

When it comes to cleaning and restoring fire affected surfaces, like brick, simply removing the superficial soot and carbon is not sufficient to naturalise the acid or remove the source of the smoke smell.

An important part of a fire damage clean-up is to cleaning solutionly neutralise this acidity to ensure the affected surfaces suffer no long-term effects as a result of the fire.

Our trained technicians at The Stain Eaters use special cleaning solutions, equipment and techniques to treat and remove the carbon stains from surfaces, as well as neutralise the acidity. This ensures that the treated areas will not be subject to on-going damage from the acid build-up which can eat away at surfaces and cause corrosion.

However, the clean-up process doesn’t end there as the smoke odour from the fire can still linger if not treated correctly.

To complete this step of the cleaning process, our team use a specially developed odour neutralising agent that can take care of the source of strong smells, like smoke and soot. When this solution is applied to effected areas, it will suppress the after-fire smells, removing the offensive odours for good.

So, if you find yourself having to deal with a clean-up job from a fire at your property, give our team a call to find out how we can help.