When a kitchen fire breaks out in a home, the soot and smoke damage is among the many issues you will have to face. Drywall and personal effects may need to be replaced, but the interior wood studs and concrete can sometime be cleaned using the dry ice process. This could eliminate the need to re-build the framing of the property. It makes old wood like-new again; blasting off contaminates and watching as they fall to the floor. It is amazing!
This particular fire broke-out in a warehouse. We dry ice blasted the ceiling and made it like-new again!
2011 was quite the year for us! We successfully dried numerous (and unplanned) floods, rid homes of unwanted smoke smells, cleaned hundreds of mold-infested properties, remodeled kitchens all over South Florida, and still had time to dry ice blast clean 2 large warehouse fires. We thank you for your continued support of Best Restorations into the new year and hope that you never need us but if you do call Best and let our team go to work for yours.
Happy Holidays~
The weather has been perfect lately…so open up your windows! According to the EPA, most homes have higher levels of VOC’s indoors than in the outdoor air. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can include an array of chemicals that in the long term cause health problems. Many household cleaning products emit these VOC’s into the air in your home. Keeping the doors and windows open as much as possible helps flush out the “bad” air and bring in the good.
Read more about what the EPA has to say about VOC’s here:
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors. VOCs are emitted by a wide array of products numbering in the thousands. Examples include: paints and lacquers, paint strippers, cleaning supplies, pesticides, building materials and furnishings, office equipment such as copiers and printers, correction fluids and carbonless copy paper, graphics and craft materials including glues and adhesives, permanent markers, and photographic solutions.
Organic chemicals are widely used as ingredients in household products. Paints, varnishes, and wax all contain organic solvents, as do many cleaning, disinfecting, cosmetic, degreasing, and hobby products. Fuels are made up of organic chemicals. All of these products can release organic compounds while you are using them, and, to some degree, when they are stored.
EPA’s Office of Research and Development’s “Total Exposure Assessment Methodology (TEAM) Study” (Volumes I through IV, completed in 1985) found levels of about a dozen common organic pollutants to be 2 to 5 times higher inside homes than outside, regardless of whether the homes were located in rural or highly industrial areas. TEAM studies indicated that while people are using products containing organic chemicals, they can expose themselves and others to very high pollutant levels, and elevated concentrations can persist in the air long after the activity is completed.
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/voc.html
Condensation Mold
Mold is a naturally occurring part of our earthly existence. Mold breaks down and digests things like dead bugs, critters and leaves and eventually turns it all back into dirt.
Mold is a good thing, as long as it stays where it belongs – outdoors. When mold is inside your home, it can be bad thing for you, your health and your belongings. Mold loves leather, wallpaper paste, drywall, furniture and the inside of your lungs.
If you see, smell or suspect mold is in your home, you should do something about it right away. Don’t wait, because it isn’t going away voluntarily. Call a certified expert who will come to your home and inspect it for mold. Most of the time, ridding your home of mold is a simple matter. But first you must determine why you have it. Identifying and eliminating mold is tied to identifying the source of the moisture that caused it in the first place.
The final step in ridding a home of unwanted mold intrusion is the post remediation test by a third party. Insist on a successful clearance test before paying your mold remediator his balance in full.
Once you do this, you can breathe freely again. You will have your home back all to yourself. Those uninvited mold spores will be gone.
Moloney is a licensed and certified mold remediator in Florida. Best Restorations, Inc., is a Florida licensed General Contractor (No. 016744) with five Florida licensed mold remediators on staff. The company specializes in successful mold remediation, as well as water and fire damage restoration, and serves all of Palm Beach and Broward counties.
Moisture is your #1 cause of mold. Without moisture mold cannot grow. Your responsibility as a victim of mold when it shows its first ugly signs are to stop the moisture source whether it be a leak or hole with moisture intrusion. Block the hole or call a plumber to stop the leak.
Your next step is to call a company like Best Restorations to extract the water, especially when it has been due to a flood or sewage backup. this should be done in a 24 hour time frame otherwise you will need to discard most items the contaminant has made contact with.
Mold has been traced to cause certain types of allergic reactions, asthma, and irritation of the eyes, skin, nose, throat and lungs. People with weakened immune systems are even more susceptible to these types of reactions.
Remediation: Also known as clean up, remediation is taking action to reduce, isolate, or remove contamination from an environment with the goal of preventing further reproduction and spreading of contaminant. Simply stated, remediation is the process of clean up and disinfection.
Mitigation: Mitigation is structural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse impact of natural hazards, environmental degradation and technological hazards. In other words, help in reducing the cause of problem to prevent further damage.
Best Restorations, Inc is properly trained and certified by these agencies below to ensure the best job being done on your property. Contact us today for more information!
-The Clean Trust Certified
- Indoor Air Quality Association
- Society of Cleaning and Restoration Technitions
-Environmental Protection Agency (Lead- Safe Certified)
-National Fire Protection Agency
