Commercial Fire Restoration

Fire damage can be very devastating for a business or commercial property. In addition to fire, smoke, and soot damage, water damage caused by firefighting efforts and fire suppression systems may occur. Every hour spent restoring your business back to the pre-fire condition is an hour of lost revenue and productivity. If you have a fire emergency, call Rainbow Restoration immediately.

Fire Damage Restoration Services

Even a small contained fire can lead to expensive repairs, including extensive fire and smoke damage along with water damage from sprinklers, extinguishers or water hoses. Then there are issues of airborne contaminants, including bacteria and mould, as well as smoke odours do be dealt with in a professional manner. The first 24 hours of fire and smoke restoration are the most critical. Within minutes plastics and appliances far from the blaze can yellow, and within hours smoke damage includes permanent staining. In just a couple of days, acidic compounds have corroded metal fixtures and wall discolouration may become permanent.

Professional commercial fire damage restoration requires a range of specialist knowledge and experience. Extensive training goes into fire restoration certification, along with years of experience and professional development. Professional cleaning of ash soot and smoke only forces contaminants deeper, making thorough removal more difficult or even impossible.

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Our Commercial Fire and Smoke Services

Our certified technicians, backed by the latest equipment, head off secondary damage to the building and salvage as many of its contents as possible through commercial fire and smoke restoration, mould remediation, and water damage restoration services. We’ll take care of the building — including flooring, cabinetry, and fixtures, and floor coverings — as well as contents such as upholstery, window blinds, and shades.

Smoke and Odor Removal

Even with automatic fire doors, HVAC shut-down, and other precautions fire odours can spread widely. Soot and even tinier microscopic smoke particles can travel miles, so you may need smoke and odour removal even if your own building wasn’t involved. And toxic, acidic, and odour-causing compounds can settle just about anywhere within the building, including some pretty surprising places. It’s critical to remove those residues before they cause permanent harm or penetrate so deeply that they can’t be removed.

There’s no single magic cleaner, so our professional technicians’ experience and expertise are important in choosing the right procedures and detergents for each combination of contamination and material to be cleaned. In many cases, we’ll use our dry-ice blasters to remove smoke and soot residue as well as char from building surfaces. In others, we may encapsulate porous materials to avoid extremely expensive replacements. Dealing with smoke damage and smoke odours also extends into the HVAC system as well as a plenum, suspended ceiling, and other unique areas.

Our crews may also use some combination of ULF and thermal deodorizing fogs, ozone generators, and hydroxyl generators. These create vapours or gasses that follow smoke back inside joints and within walls. There they safely break down odour compounds, then harmlessly dissipate. Ozone odour removal treatments are a bit stronger but exclude occupants and workers for one or more days. Hydroxyl treatments take longer to achieve similar results, but treatment areas can remain occupied.

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Damage Repairs and Reconstruction

Commercial fire damage restoration isn’t complete until all repairs are complete and debris has been hauled away and properly disposed of, leaving the site in pre-loss condition. That might include surface repairs, repainting, and refinishing or go as far as the demolition and reconstruction of heavily-damaged areas.

Don’t let a fire get the best of you and your business!

Frequently Asked Biohazard Questions

What causes commercial fires?

Common causes of commercial fires include arson or human error (such as misuse of equipment or a lit cigarette). The more people that handle the equipment, even minor ones such as a coffee pot, the greater the chances of a fire.

Improperly or irregularly maintained boilers, water heaters and furnaces also spark flames in a commercial setting. Strict code regulations are often not adhered to, leading to fires. Combustible materials, like trash and paper, haphazardly strewn into the same vicinity as the boiler, furnace, or water heater are likely to trigger an explosion of flames.

Similar to the frequent lack of maintenance in commercial buildings, unmaintained electrical systems are hazardous, causing fires to blaze. Properties that are serviced by unlicensed electricians are at risk for the dangerous consequences of electrical code violations — and fire.

What steps do we take after the fire?

In the immediate aftermath of a fire, whether a major blaze or a minor warehouse flame, a property manager’s first step should be to contact the company’s insurance agent to determine coverage. Once the insurance company is informed of the outbreak of a fire, the next step is to contact a reputable fire damage restoration company.

How long will fire damage restoration take?

As eager as commercial property owners are to get back to business as soon as possible after the breakout of the fire, the timing of the restoration process varies according to each individual circumstance. The property owner’s contact from the restoration team will be able to gauge the timeframe of the project and provide updates as progress is made.

Should we attempt a cleanup?

The soot, smoke and toxic gases that result from a fire are difficult to clean. Smoke particles and obnoxious odours become heavily lodged into carpets, walls and furniture. The longer the soot and smoke linger along the property, the more challenging it is to remove the particles entirely.

While vacuuming with a shop vac and ventilating the space with industrial fans works minimally to reduce the aftereffects of the fire, property owners are advised to allow the fire damage restoration technicians to professionally handle the cleanup. Skilled restorers remove persistent odors with an ozone generator. Thermal fogging is also utilized to dislodge soot or smoke particles from affected items.