Fire and Smoke Damage Restoration

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RSA has completed The Complete Guide to Cleaning and Restoration, a comprehensive textbook for its restoration, cleaning and remediation classroom courses, according to a press release.

 When deciding whether to pack out or clean in-place, I ask myself the following questions: 

In the late hours of July 31, 2013 a fire started in the northwest corner of the 25,000-square-foot field house gymnasium at Waukesha North High School and left the 40-year-old Milwaukee-area school devastated with fire, smoke and soot damage.

It was February 27, 2014 when a fire ripped into Mitchell Middle School in Racine, WI, racing through the attached elementary school and into the middle school’s multi-purpose room.

The early morning hours of April 24, 2013 started as they normally do at the Cabela’s store in Dundee, MI, as night employees restocked shelves and carried out other duties in the closed 225,000 square foot facility.

The Chrysalis Awards for Remodeling Excellence has honored Paul Davis with the top national achievement in this year's category of Residential Insurance Restoration.

A lot of factors are taken into consideration when dealing with odor removal. 

It was a late Saturday morning. I received a phone call from a project manager, stating he was at a fire. It is very rare for a project manager to call me in need of any assistance so I immediately asked if everything was OK.  

Geoff Ganz is a 20+-year veteran of the restoration industry, who holds 17 industry certifications, including IICRC Master Water Restorer, Master Fire and Smoke Restorer and Master Textile Cleaner.

What’s the best way to handle and clean personal papers in a fire loss that have been damaged by soot and also smell? The homeowner wants to keep them and won’t let me throw them away.