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Water Mold Wind Fireworks

watermoldfirewind — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:58:00 +0000

Happy 2012!! Make it a great year!

Dry Ice Blasting after a House Fire

watermoldfirewind — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:41:05 +0000

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!

Season’s Greetings!

watermoldfirewind — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:15:30 +0000

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~

Open up the windows!

watermoldfirewind — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:35:19 +0000

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

Mold: Nothing to Sneeze at

watermoldfirewind — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:33:51 +0000

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.

Mold: Cause and Effect and Responsibility

watermoldfirewind — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:45:46 +0000

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.

What is Remediation and Mitigation??

watermoldfirewind — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:29:14 +0000

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

Tropical Storm Emily

watermoldfirewind — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:59:53 +0000

The first possible threat to Palm Beach County…TS Emily. Looks like she will miss us, but we will probably get some outer rain bands.

Dry Ice Blasting as an Alternative Method

watermoldfirewind — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:19:27 +0000

Dry Ice Blasting removes 100% of mold spores 60%-300% faster than traditional cleaning methods. It is best used for those hard to reach places such as trusses, around nails, wiring and all plumbing without further damaging effects. Dry Ice Blasting can reduce the time and manpower by 60-80% thus passing savings on to you. With Dry Ice Blasting cleaning of mold spores, the dry ice sublimates into a gas once hitting the intended surface which means virtually no clean up.

Dry Ice Blasting is also becoming a common use for Fire Restoration providing fast and efficient removal of smoke, soot, resins, char and even best known to reduce or eliminate the musty or burnt smell resulting from Fire, Water or Smoke Damage.

Who is Best Restorations, Inc.??

watermoldfirewind — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:18:33 +0000

Let’s face it, when it comes to dealing with a disaster in your home, you want to be able to put your trust in the company you chose to work with. Essentially, you would rather not feel like just a “number” and get lost in the shuffle. When it comes to your personal possessions and place of living, you want immediate response, and impeccable service. That’s where we step in. Best Restorations is a small company with a whole lot of skill. President, Dennis Moloney, and Vice President /Project Manager, Harold Ettinger, have both been in the insurance/contracting industry for well over 25 years. In fact, our staff and principals hold well over 100 years combined experience. Every single customer that comes to us speaks with Dennis Moloney one on one. How many companies can say that every one of their customers speaks with the president of the company? And even before your restoration begins we send out a project manager to assess the damages and start communication with the insurance company. Once the agreement is made, we set up work with our own in-house technicians. The reason people are so happy with the work that we do is due to the simple fact that we value the relationships we hold with our customers. We are the best when it comes to restoring your home to the exact if not better condition it was in before. We are a family company in the sense that we work together as a family where communication is key. Everything here is a team effort.

Best Restorations is a Licensed General Contractor that specializes in interior damages due to water, mold, fire, and smoke damages. Not every emergency service company out there has this license. This gives us the liberty to perform any kind of contracting, but our specialty is interior restoration. Our company has been up and running for 5 years since this past May. And all though we are based in Delray Beach we carry out business from Indian River down to Miami. We are here to take care of any remediation, remodeling, and restoration that takes place after such damages. So why settle for less when you can have the best!

Meet the Best!