Case Studies
Fire Restoration -Hampshire
This lovely cottage was home to a family of 4, 3 cats and 3 dogs. They were renting the property and had only been there for 18 months when a fire ripped through the property.
This major fire in Hook, Hampshire, was on the national news. The whole property was devastated, there were 13 fire brigade appliances in attendance and local surrounding roads were closed for safety. The family of 4 were unharmed during the incident. however, they only escaped with the clothes they had on. It was thought the fire was started by faulty electrical wiring.
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Day 2
The whole cottage had been badly affected on day 2 and once the fire appliances were all finished and the parts of the property that were deemed safe, our team began going through the property to save any contents we could. Our main aim this day was soft contents as we knew the customer needed any soft contents back as soon as possible. During this visit to inspect the level of damage, all soft contents we could access were removed and transported to our secure facility for the restoration to begin with high priority.
DAY - PROCESSING - SOFT CONTENTS FACILITY
Any soft content we removed from the property had very bad fire damage and the customer was unsure what we would be able to restore, they were keen for us to restore as much as possible from the contents we had. All soft items were cleaned and processed through our exclusive soft contents machine known as ‘DC-4000'. All remaining contents were successfully cleaned to a high standard, wrapped, and packed out into storage awaiting the return to the customer. The process took 7 days in total. The DC 4000 is now a pivotal player in our Restoration Industry. The DC 4000 is the newest in a line of highly advanced, game-changing washing systems designed to clean 90% of soft contents, our third-party independent laboratory testing has verified that the DC 4000 Wash System restores heavy soot, mold, and Category 2 & 3 water damaged contents to food grade clean standard”
Total Duration for textile Processing and pack out: 12 Days
BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOGRAPHS
The bag shown above to most would be non-restorable. The bottom picture shows that you wouldn't have known it had been in a fire.
Clothes (above) that we managed to get out of the property. These were badly smoke damaged and had lots of soot contamination.
This Cutlery and teapot (shown opposite) were all hand cleaned individually, a full day of work the cost of labor and products to complete was approximately £200, however, the replacement value would have been over £450. These contents had sentimental value to the customer and they were antiques so being able to restore these for the customer gave our team great satisfaction and should show how willing we were to meet the customer's request to restore everything we possibly could.
