Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration in Frankfort, KY

They run to different clocks and need different work, and the last two routinely affect more of a building than the first. Firefighting puts a great deal of water into a structure very quickly and it is still there after everyone leaves, which is why extraction starts before soot cleaning does.

In older Frankfort buildings this matters more than usual. Plaster, lath and solid masonry hold water far longer than modern materials, so a fire loss in a nineteenth century building is a drying job with a soot problem attached rather than the other way around.

Soot residue is acidic and different fuels leave different residues, so the cleaning agent has to be matched to what actually burned. Using the wrong one on original plaster, painted woodwork or stone does damage the fire did not, and that damage is permanent.

This is the ordinary reason to dry-clean before wet-cleaning anything: wiping dry soot with something wet drives it into the surface and sets the stain. On a historic building, that one shortcut is the difference between cleaning a wall and replacing it.