Enviro-Clean Services, Inc. can help return your home or business and furnishings back
to a "pre-loss" condition.
We have the training and experience required to understand the frustrations and trauma that fire damage causes for home and business owners. We are qualified to properly evaluate the loss, test damaged materials, select the optimum restoration alternative, coordinate with insurance professionals, and ultimate, to restore property and contents to a pre-loss condition
- or better!
PROCEDURES FOR FIRE MITIGATION:
1. Assessment
- Greet customer and ask about the source of the water or flood
- Sign work authorization sheet
- Determine the Class and Category of loss
- Using a water probe measure to determine the scope of the loss
- Draw out a map of the areas affected
- Record samples for monitoring and drying goals
- Take room measurements
- Use a camera to document initial conditions
- Relative humidity is recorded on affected, unaffected, and outside conditions
2. Manipulation of contents
- Ask customer for permission to move or cover contents
- Take pictures of positioning of furniture and contents
- Affected materials must be wiped for soot with sponges, brushes, and chemical
- Unaffected materials must be protected from cross contamination by moving or containing area
- Using dollies or proper lifting techniques move contents into unaffected areas
- Load contents into storage containers or off site if required
- Raise containment barriers or cover contents if needed
- Note storage of removed contents on check sheet and place in similarly marked box
- Contents are taken off site to be cleaned and degreased with anti-soot chemicals
- Cleansed items are repacked into new boxes and remarked for delivery to customer
- Damaged items are marked on the content check sheet and stored for the adjuster
- Storage units are used to maintain these boxes during mitigation
- Ozone treatment of storage units is an additional service provided
- Upon completion of the job, contents are returned to the rooms they were removed in new boxes
3. Implementation of Equipment
- Remove ozone machine, sponges, anti-smoke chemicals, air scrubbers, and extractors from truck
- All equipment is placed in the unaffected area for safety, aka completion site
- Equipment is assigned to crew according to task assigned
- Air scrubbers are used to purify the air by HEPA filtration in affected areas which are run continuously during operation phase and in most cases left for pick-up after cleaning
- Ozone machines are used to sanitize the air of soot and microbial and are typically run after cleaning
- Anti-soot sponges are used to wipe the entirety of the structure
- Unmoved contents are wiped with anti-soot chemicals in place
- Typically the chemicals are ____________________________
- Supervisors are required to document progress with cameras and provide for redundancy of soot cleanup
- Unused tools should be returned to the completion site
- Sweep the house for equipment and tools before activation of air scrubbers or ozone machines
- Tools are returned to the box trailer and stored securely
- Box trailers are refilled to operational capacity upon return to office
- Appointments are made with the customer for pickup of ozone machines or air scrubbers
- Completion forms are signed upon termination of service
5. What are we trying to accomplish?
- We want to be a 24 hour/ 7 day a week service
- We want to remove soot and other contaminants from the home caused by the catastrophic
loss from fires
- And above all we want to help people in their time of need
