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The Leading Causes of House Fires

Monday, October 4th, 2010
House causes can be devastating, leading to the loss of not only your home but everything within it, as well as the memories and emotional attachments associated with the house. Many fires, unfortunately, are preventable. Knowing the top causes for house fires can help you avoid actions that could bring about this catastrophe in your home.

Cooking Fires

The leading cause of house fires in the US is cooking accidents. Over forty percent of fires in the home occur in the kitchen. In order to avoid starting a fire in this vulnerable area, follow these guidelines:

1. Do not leave the stove unattended while it is on.
2. Do not leave flammable items near the stove.
3. Keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen where it is easily accessible in case of a kitchen fire.

Always follow standard safety procedures while working in the kitchen, and be sure you know how to respond to different types of fires. Grease fires must be dealt with differently than other types of fires, for example.

Smoking Fires

About twenty-five percent of people who die in fires are killed in fires started by cigarettes. Cigarettes fall or brush against flammable materials inside the house, igniting a fire. To avoid these types of fires, smoke outside the house and never smoke while in bed, as the cigarette could fall to the sheets if you fall asleep.

Fires Triggered by Heating Mechanisms

During the winter, keeping the house warm is a necessity. But a large number of wintertime fires are sparked as a result of heating equipment. During the winter, be sure to:

1. Keep flammable objects away from heaters, fireplaces or space heaters.
2. Keep furnaces, heaters and chimneys properly maintained.
3. Do not use fuel that is not meant for the heating mechanism.

By following these safety guidelines, you can greatly reduce the possibility that you will experience a house fire.
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Soot damage to a home effects on health

Friday, September 24th, 2010
A fire is often a traumatic event for a person, especially if one’s home or office is affected. However, what many people do not consider following a fire are the after-effects. The property in question may still be intact, but there may be a lot of soot to deal with. Dealing with such an issue is more than simply having a couch vacuumed or washing a rug. Instead, it means that you will have to call in a professional company to deal with all of the soot. The following are some of the major effects of having soot in a home.

Soot can ruin a home. It is incredibly hard to get rid of. This debris has been known to stay in a home for more than a decade, even with constant cleaning. This means that your home may not be the same if you do not enlist the help of experts who know how to rid a space of soot. You do not want your home to smell and look like soot months or years after a fire.

And of course, there are some serious health risks to having soot in a home. This is something that can affect a person’s breathing. If you or loved ones already have allergies and issues with asthma, this can make it nearly impossible to sleep at night. Additionally, soot is more than dirt: It can have harmful chemicals and pieces of glass in it, which is why you should take the time to rid your home or space of this. Talk to professionals and they can come in with the latest equipment and techniques to thoroughly clean your home.

Soot damage is a serious after effect of a fire, which is why it is important to really talk to professionals about cleaning up after a fire. Treat this seriously so that you do not put your loved ones’ health at danger or have to deal with the smell and look of soot in every nook and cranny of your home or office.

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How a Restoration Company Can Help with Water, Fire, and Mold Damage to Carpet

Monday, September 6th, 2010
Water damage to carpet will be inevitable for many people. With the amount of pipes that burst during winter seasons, or just faulty water pipes in general, homes and businesses can be affected with massive amounts of damage. There is also fire damage that can happen if a home or a business catches on fire. When water is left in carpet for a long period of time, mold can start to set in, and a home can be a dangerous and toxic place to be in. Most water damaged carpets in small areas can be taken care of with a water filtration vacuum cleaner, but if a person’s entire house is damaged, or if a business has many floors of water damaged carpet, they are going to need a better recourse. Restoration companies were created to help homes and businesses save their property from massive amounts of water, fire, flood, and mold damage to carpet.

Restoration companies can bring carpets back from the brink by returning carpets back to their original conditions. Most restoration companies are equipped to help homes and businesses that have been affected by natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, rainstorms, mudslides, monsoons, and windstorms, as well as burst pipes, sewer damage, fires, and explosions. No job is too big for most restoration companies. The areas of a home or business that a restoration company can work with are, fire damage, burned walls, clean up, restore, recover, redesign, and reconstruction. Restoration companies have the most state of the art equipment that can perform a dry down of a home or business when water damage has occurred. Their equipment can extract water from any carpet and floor boards underneath. Then,they will use a combination of demolitions, drying equipment, and air movers to further the restoration process. They are also equipped with infra red cameras that can find water damage that is unseen by most people. Once a home or business has been dried down, the recovery stage can take place. This is where the carpet will be restored, redesigned, and reconstructed.

Once a home or a business has been accessed for damages, a restoration company can have carpet back to new again within a few days time. Getting to the water damaged areas as quick as possible will help to save a home or a business from destruction.

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Smoke Odor Removal

Monday, August 30th, 2010
A fire on any scale can be a disastrous event, and often it is not just the fire damage itself that has to be dealt with. Cleaning up after a fire or accident that has left smoke or soot damage can be just as challenging as cleaning up the burned material. Smoke and soot have a tendency to penetrate many other rooms in a structure, often permeating things like furniture, drapes, clothing, and carpets. While vacuuming and wiping may help with the surface material, removing the smell usually proves to be the biggest challenge.

Removal of smoke and soot after a fire should always be left up to a professional, even in cases where the fire was small like a cooking accident. If the smoke and soot removal is not performed properly, there are real health risks that can arise. Smoke and soot are made up of fine particulates that float very easily when disturbed and are very easy to inhale. Some of these particulates come from toxic materials like burning plastics. An improperly cleaned piece of furniture, for instance, can become a source of smoke odor and respiratory irritants for many months after a fire.

Not all surfaces and materials can be cleaned of smoke odor in the same manner; some materials require specific chemicals and treatments to remove smoke odors and soot. Special techniques are needed for certain materials, particularly porous ones like concrete, masonry, drywall, and ceramic. These materials can absorb smoke odors and fine particles into walls, floors, and ceilings making them almost impossible to remove. Contacting an experienced professional in time can make the difference between salvage and reconstruction.

Relying on a professional for smoke odor removal also ensures that the items that can be saved, will be saved. Many times a professional can rescue furniture or other items that were considered a total loss. The chemicals and treatments used for smoke odor removal can also be hazardous if mishandled or used improperly, possibly posing health risks and making the situation worse.

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Rene Vargas
Super Restoration
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Cleaning Soot from Porous and Non-Porous Items

Friday, August 20th, 2010
Cleaning soot from porous and non-porous items is a major task. Soot is a result of the incomplete combustion of wood, coal, diesel oil or other materials. Soot is normally found in the form of a black powdery substance consisting mainly of carbon. Soot will absorb energy from sunlight rather than reflect it thus it is seen as one of the main sources of global warming. This is particularly true if soot happens to settle on snow or ice. Soot particles in the air are a contributing cause for many respiratory illnesses. A common cause of soot is burning wood in a fireplace. Fire damage to residential and commercial properties will require the careful removal of soot during the clean-up process. Fire restoration services will often, due to the nature of the damage, necessitate the need for water and mold restoration in a simultaneous fashion.

Professional fire restoration services will be able to properly and completely clean and remove all soot from the premises. Removing soot from porous items is difficult but possible. Soot can penetrate into porous items due to the unique physical qualities of the surface of the item. Leaving the soot on these items can have drastic negative consequences. Chemical deposits can be left behind which can later be transferred into the air by heating and air conditioning systems and cause respiratory issues. Items that cannot be cleaned of soot completely should be discarded for this reason.

Non-porous items are generally easier to clean. Glass and other non-porous surfaces can normally be restored with appropriate cleaning equipment and supplies. The equipment utilized to clean up after a fire includes high tech Industrial ultrasonic equipment used to clean computers completely. High pressure water is another technique used on appropriate surfaces. The equipment and supplies utilized by professional restoration companies is intended to restore the residential or commercial property to living or working quality with no presence of soot.

Fire restoration services must be sought from a fully trained professional. Cleaning up after a fire is not the same thing as removing excess soot from a fireplace area.

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Rene Vargas
Super Restoration
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Lead Based Paint Remediation

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Lead based paint remediation is a job for a professional company that is certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This certification ensures that the company is knowledgeable and competent in water, mold, and fire restoration when handling lead-based paint. The managers, inspectors, and technicians of a lead-safe certified company take classes and do field work to garner skills and expertise in safely removing and disposing of lead-based paint. The debris from it is hazardous waste.

A new federal law applies as of April 22, 2010. It compels contractors that execute renovation, restoration, and painting projects that unsettles an area bigger than 6 square feet of paint in structures constructed before 1978 to be trained and certified in work habits that stop lead contamination. This law applies to work done in homes, day care facilities, and schools.

Professionals know the correct procedures to lessen, control, and confine lead dust produced by removing lead-based paint. They specialize in water damage repair, mold inspection and elimination, and fire damage renovation.

People usually get lead poisoning from lead contaminated dust or deteriorating lead-based paint. All of the methods for paint removal which includes heat guns, torches, sandpaper, chemicals, and scrapers may generate floating lead dust and fumes. People can inhale or ingest these dangerous contaminates, which cause lead poisoning. This poisoning may cause irreparable brain damage in children. In adults it may cause nerve damage, decrease muscle coordination, and raise blood pressure.

But trained professionals working for a water, mold, and fire restoration company know how to control the lead dust that is stirred up during the elimination or abatement process. The strict procedures they follow prevents the lead dust from contaminating your home, day car facility or school.

The professionals can remove window sills, molding, and trim to strip the paint outdoors. The restoration company can remove and change or cover-up lead-based paint. They can restore your home to a lead paint free condition that is safe for your family.

Call us today for a free consultation 800-516-8059 or by email at: info@superrestoration.com

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Rene Vargas
Super Restoration
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How Can Super Restoration Provide Emergency Power to Homes and Businesses?

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

People who need emergency power in a hurry can trust Super Restoration to provide emergency power to meet a host of needs quickly and efficiently. Here’s a brief look at some of the ways that Super Restoration can help you meet your power needs in an emergency:

–Our modern portable generators can help you meet emergency mobile power needs efficiently anywhere at any time.
This is the case because Super Restoration features a variety of portable generators which feature a rugged and simple design that saves space. This allows Super Restoration to safely transport them anywhere using trailers that can be conveniently parked anywhere you need them.

–Super Restoration also uses a variety of generators that can generate enough power to meet the needs of practically anyone.
We feature Magnum generators which range in output from 30kW to 500kW. These generators are easy to use and they can be set up anywhere quickly to meet the needs of homes and businesses that need a mobile power source in a hurry.

–In addition, Super Restoration also offers prompt and courteous installation services that make it easier for you to use our generators right away.
Super Restoration features highly trained technical specialists that are trained to quickly install and monitor all of our units. Our specialists also work hard to ensure prompt delivery. This gives Super Restoration‘s technical specialists every opportunity to ensure that our units will continually provide reliable service to our clients.

-Finally, Super Restoration also provides power sources for people who have lost power due to a fire or a natural disaster.
This is especially important in South Florida where hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters can occur throughout the year. Super Restoration offers clients a full line of generators that can be used after a natural disaster occurs that are easy to use and easy to maintain. As a result, Super Restoration can also help people who have been affected by a fire or natural disaster in South Florida recovers as soon as possible.

As a result of these services, Super Restoration can help commercial and residential customers find and use emergency power sources at a moment’s notice. As a result, give Super Restoration a call today to see how they can help you with your emergency power needs. We’d be happy to show you how we can help you find the right generator to meet your emergency power needs.

In your service,

Rene Vargas
Super Restoration
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The Dangers of Water, Mold and Fire Damage

Monday, April 12th, 2010

 Even the most cautious and prepared homeowners may find themselves in a position of having standing water in their home. There’s only so much you can to protect your home from hurricanes and regional flooding. Pipes can burst unexpectedly, even when you are away on vacation. And when a house has standing water, mold is the next course of evolution. Unless the water is thoroughly and properly dried, mold can be left with a prime surface for growing. Often unseen and undetected, the spores released can migrate through carpets and soft sheetrock walls, causing serious physical ailments. Even with smoke alarms and other preventions in place, your home can still fall victim to fire. Defective appliances can find their way into any home and kitchen accidents can happen even with the most careful chefs at work. Whether the tragedy affecting your home is water, mold or fire damage, Super Restoration can help you rescue your home.

Water will take the easiest path of travel. This is a well-known fact. What people don’t always realize is that the easiest path of travel may well be straight up a sheetrock wall. When standing water is present in a home, it can easily wick up the sheetrock, creating further damage. It will spread quickly through carpets and into any lower levels. It may seem like a simple matter to dry the floor, but getting the underlying padding and subfloor dry can pose a greater challenge. Yet drying these hidden areas fully and quickly is vital to preventing the growth of mold. Super Restoration will respond to your call quickly, with the right equipment to clear the water and moisture from your home.

Southern Florida has warm temperatures and high humidity, which encourages the growth of mold to begin with. Once mold establishes itself in a home it does not take long to spread and cause extensive damage. With Super Restoration you can rest assured that the mold will not be given the chance to take hold. Any existing mold will be thoroughly and safely removed and the areas cleaned.

In addition to checking all affected areas for mold, the subfloor, structural materials and crawl spaces must be inspected for damage. Rot that occurs due to water damage can continue to spread even after the standing water is removed. And anyplace that remains even slightly damp afterwards can easily become a breeding ground for potentially toxic mold. Trust Super Restoration to check your home so that you won’t have to worry about hidden damage.

Fire can completely destroy a home. But even a small kitchen fire that you were able to extinguish with your home extinguisher can leave behind serious challenges. Smoke and soot can leave an unhealthy film on appliances and furnishings that can create breathing problems. Sheetrock walls can absorb the smoke, causing further damage and a smell that persists long after the fire was put out. The smoke can also react with metal building materials in the house, creating unsafe conditions. Super Restoration specializes in clearing soot and smoke from your home, leaving you with a fresh, safe, clean environment.

Water, mold and fire have the potential to make your home uninhabitable. When tragedy strikes your home, call Super Restoration so that you can rest easy knowing that your house will be clean, safe and secure for many more years to come.

In your service,

Rene Vargas
Super Restoration
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Reconstruct, Rebuild, Repair Your Way into the Future

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Disaster can strike at anytime, and since only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, you should outfit your home or business with the best restoration services you can find. Super Restoration provides one-stop solutions to all sorts of property damage reconstruction and repair needs. When mold, fire damage or water intrusion has caused hazardous conditions that preclude your business from utilizing your facilities to their maximum extent, you’ll need to get things back to normal somehow, and reconstruction is going to be the first step you’ll have to take. If your family can’t occupy their home due to hazardous or unhealthy conditions, you need to act efficiently and quickly.

Getting your assets restored to their original condition is not a DIY project or casual undertaking, and when you think about it, it shouldn’t be a project that you have to oversee every step of as a home or business owner. For restorations that maintain safety regulations and set you off on the right foot again by returning your operations to full steam in no time flat, Super Restoration is there.

Super Restoration is well versed in the creation and execution of cost-effective rebuild plans that minimize the amount of time your facilities or residences are unusable. With a staff whose widespread experience in all forms of commercial and residential construction and will rebuild your properties to your exact specifications and keep you fully updated throughout, it will seem like your reconstruction is doing itself. Our damage assessments use state of the art technologies to determine the exact amount of damage that has occurred inside your walls and structure, so you can be guaranteed that our reconstructions and repairs will last a lifetime.

Disasters can produce consequences of any scope or form, and your house or business’s continuity and lifespan is definable by how well it responds to handling these consequences. There’s no reason that you shouldn’t be able to get a hand up when these unforeseen tragedies catch you off guard, so give Super Restoration a call. Take advantage of a company that will stick with you through inspection, assist you during insurance remediation and then provide you with the most stress free reconstruction you’ll ever get.

In your service,

Rene Vargas
SuperRestoration
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Fire. What is Smoke and Soot Removal

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Fire is one of the most devastating calamities for a private home, office building, theater or any structure used and valued. Sometimes the smoke and soot cause much more damage than the actual fire, but this can be mitigated by the right professionals. Super Restoration has the trained professional staff that can save property that has been smoke or soot damaged and also reconstructs part of the damaged building. They are ready 24 hours for emergency service fire damage clean-up for the smallest to the largest fire damage. They have the best cleaning supplies in the industry and the technicians with the most experience in every kind of soot and smoke removal, so each unique job is done right.

Soot and smoke removal is done by many companies but Super Restoration knows the right way to remove it from drywall, wiring or steel supports so that the terrible and toxic odor and floating particles that make it dangerous to breathe are removed and the house becomes safe for children, pets and you. It is important to call Super Restoration as soon as possible after the fire because they need to assess the extent of the damage and see the exact process needed to clean it and how long it will take. Another aspect of smoke removal is the odor. It gets imbedded in fabrics and other porous materials and shampoo and deodorizer is not the answer. Each surface needs a different process. Super Restoration has several techniques including hot and wet fogging smoke-damaged areas, ozone treatment and High Efficiency Particulate Air scrubbing.

Super Restoration has specialized technicians that use vacuums especially designed for this purpose. They have been in the business for 25 years and have restored and cleaned thousands of offices and residents creating a clean and safe environment again. Super Restoration has licensed and bonded contractors who will make necessary repairs as they clean the soot and smoke damage. The fire may be out but there is still burned material in the structure and many people don’t realize that one of the most critical steps to mitigate the damage is to remove any remaining burned material. This will prevent soot production later when it may break off or start to float into the air again. This type of work needs a professional contractor because it involves restoration of the structure. Smoke and soot mitigation needs to be done right the first time.

In your service,

Rene Vargas
SuperRestoration
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