3 Types of Smoke

7/26/2019 (Permalink)

This is the result of smoke damage from a fire that happened in an adjacent room.

There are three different types of smoke that may affect your home or business due to a fire loss.  These two different types of smoke—wet and dry—will cause different types of soot residue after a fire.  This information is crucial for the remediation process.  Pretesting will determine which cleaning procedures need to be used to make your home or business “Like it never even happened.” Below is more information about different types of smoke and residue:

Wet Smoke – Rubber and Plastic

• Low heat. Includes a pungent odor, sticky, smeary. Smoke webs are difficult to clean.

Dry Smoke – Paper and Wood

• Fast burning, high temperatures, heat rises therefore smoke rises.

Protein Fire Residue – Produced by evaporation of material

• Basically invisible. Discolors, paints, and varnishes. Extremely pungent odor.

Our highly trained professionals are prepared to tackle all types of smoke.