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Masters of Disaster: Fire Damage Restoration

October 26, 2011

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Recently All Aces Services were asked to perform Fire Damage Restoration services at a property in Cooloola Cove which is near Hervey Bay in Queensland. At All Aces Services, we strive to provide restoration services throughout Queensland and into northern New South Wales, so Cooloola Cove was certainly within our reach.

The fire in the property started in the kitchen, however it was found relatively early and most of the fire damage was contained in the kitchen area. However, fire causes smoke and smoke causes staining on walls and furniture and leaves and odour. At All Aces Services we are professionally trained in Fire Damage Restoration and also Odour Removal.

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Smoke on Ceiling

The best way to explain what we do is to show the before and after pictures of the areas we cleaned and let you judge for yourself whether or not you agree that we are Fire Damage Restoration experts.

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Half-way through our Fire Damage Restoration

As  part of our Fire Damage Restoration process we use drop sheets, move furniture if necessary and use dry sponges to clean and decontaminate affected walls, ceilings, cupboards and hard floors. Dry sponging removes the loose soot from surfaces in the most efficient manner to reduce staining.

Once we have dry sponged an area, we commence wet washing the affected area using an odour counteractant blended with a de-carboniser. This process ensures that any odour trapped in hard surfaces is removed.

This particular property did not have damaged carpet and upholstery, but All Aces Services are fully equipped to perform Fire Damage Restoration Services on carpets and upholstery as well using odour counteractants and HEPA vacuums.

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Kitchen Area After Fire Damage Rectification

We think you will agree that our Fire Damage Restoration services are of the highest quality. If you need experts in Fire Damage Restoration, call All Aces Services immediately on 1800 00 1010.

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Kitchen Ceiling After Decontamination

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Water and Urine Affected Carpets

February 22, 2011

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We received an urgent call to attend to a property at Raceview for water damage.  A pipe had burst in the vanity unit causing flooding to a three bedroom home.  Due to the water damage, the tenants had quickly vacated the property.

We headed straight out there and took moisture readings throughout the property.  The loungeroom had a very high moisture content.  We lifted the carpet to realise that a dog had been using the lounge room carpet as a toilet!

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There was a strong odour present and we realised that just a carpet clean was not going to remove the urine.  Urine is Uric Acid which leaves your body at a pH level of 5-6.  When urine dries it turns into a crystalline salt.  Sometimes the colour will change as the urine reacts with the carpet.  The reason why there is often a strong odour is because the urine goes through a chemical change which sets off a gas.

Where a lot of people make the mistake is that as soon as they notice the stain or smell, they apply water or they call some cheap carpet cleaner in to clean and deodorise the carpets.  Big Mistake!!

Urine becomes worse when moisture is added or there is high humidity.  The crystalline salts absorb water and moisture and put out an ammonia gas.  This leaves your carpets smelling worse than before you cleaned them.

What we had to do to rectify the problem from the urine was to start by cutting out the affected underlay.  We treated the subfloor, relaid new underlay and treated both sides of the carpet.  We then cleaned the area with our 10 step deluxe carpet cleaning system.

You can see the end results:

Bedroom 2 Custom 300x225 Water and Urine Affected CarpetsThe stains were completely gone and 100% of the odour was removed.  If you have any questions about water damage or urine odour removal please see our website or call our friendly trained staff on 1800 00 1010.  We have solutions for your problems that are guaranteed 100%.

 Water and Urine Affected Carpets

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