Cost of Professional Smoke Removal

If your home has been damaged by smoke, it is very important to quickly repair the effects of such damage. Smoke often accompanies fires, and you should be sure that an insurance company clearly distinguishes between the concepts of fire damage and smoke damage, so that you can claim compensation on both of these grounds.

What's more, smoke damage can occur even without an immediate fire in your home. If a neighbor's house catches fire, the smoke can be blown to your site and might damage your property. Smoke often occurs without active flames and can result from a small fire, a short circuit, or malfunction of a hood in the kitchen. In any of these cases, your home is shrouded in puffs of smoke, and the damage can be significant.

The most common areas that suffer from smoke are the following:

• Home walls and ceilings, both internal and external. The streams of soot on the facade will not please the homeowner as well as any damage caused by the smoke inside.
• Electronics and household appliances. The smoke carries combustion particles that settle on the parts of household appliances, contaminate and subsequently disable them.
• The smell of smoke permeates all textiles. Often, after a fire, smoky and stinky curtains, carpets and upholstered furniture simply have to be thrown away. Needless to say, your personal belongings suffer as well.
• Smoke is hazardous to human health. It contains harmful chemical compounds that cause lung diseases, swelling, allergic reactions and even cancer.

So, don't wait! Once the source of the fire that has caused smoke in your home has been removed, be sure to start dealing with the consequences right away.

What Is Included in Smoke Removal Services

In order to efficiently and reliably eliminate the consequences of smoke damage, it is worth contacting a special service, i.e. a smoke removal company. Such a company sends you home professionals who can:

• assess the amount of damage,
• identify all smoke damage locations,
• plan a strategy to eliminate smoke damage,
• bring all the necessary equipment and detergents with them to eliminate smoke and its effects,
• provide you with the documentary evidence of the work performed and smoke damage clean-up cost estimate to apply to your insurance company.

Smoke damage removal companies hire professional servicemen for their smoke removal teams. These pros have a huge experience and skills that allow them to tackle the toughest challenge. To eliminate smoke, special types of equipment and powerful chemical compositions are used. In the course of work, the specialists of the smoke damage clean-up service pay attention to the type of coating that needs to be treated. They also offer a variety of options depending on what cost of professional smoke removal you expect. This is the essence of the work performed by such companies.

Is It Real to Remove Smoke Damage Yourself?

If you think that the cost of professional smoke removal service will be critical to your budget, of course, you can try to eliminate the effects of smoke in your home yourself. But what is it fraught with?

• You will have to spend your time, take a day off from work (maybe more), or waste your weekend joy in order to eliminate the smoke damage.
• The entire routine of cleaning and airing the home can take weeks or months if you have never dealt with smoke removal and smoke damage restoration. Within this period of time, combustion particles and soot that have settled on the walls and ceiling will get even more reliably absorbed, and you will eventually have to make a complete renovation, including full repair of the damaged walls and ceilings.
• Even if you have definitely decided to act on your own, are you sure you know the right ways to eliminate smoke, burning smell and smoke stains? Even a slight mistake in your DIY practice can lead to irreparable damage.

Do these risks compare with the cost of professional smoke removal? Rest assured. Hiring professionals will cost you less both in terms of time and money.

The Average Cost of Professional Smoke Removal

We have now reached the most sensible issue. How much does it cost to repair smoke damage? It highly depends on the volume and type of work that should be done. For example, the cheapest service on average is just getting rid of the burning odor and soot. In case you need to renovate the wall/ceiling covering, remove spots on the walls and/or ceilings, the cost will be higher. Finally, in case of a total fire and smoke removal service, it will be much more expensive to get a turnkey pre-loss condition of your home.

Take a look at the following table providing the charges for smoke removal services:

What impacts the total cost of professional smoke removal? Besides the state policy related to the charges for smoke removal services, there are some other factors. They are the following:

• the space that needs to be cleaned,
• the range of services you need,
• the period of time (the faster you need to benefit from these services, the higher the cost is),
• the service complexity level.

All these factors should be taken into account when you apply for professional smoke restoration services.