Commercial Fire Damage Cleanup Services In Your Manayunk Restaurant

1/27/2020 (Permalink)

Overcoming a kitchen fire does not have to cause long-term closures or widescale replacements.

Commercial Fire Damage Cleanup Services for Manayunk Restaurants with Grease Fires

When unforeseen circumstances begin to affect your business, you need immediate intervention. A busy kitchen can exhaust vast amounts of animal fats and proteins in the form of smoke. Ventilation systems above stoves transport cooking smoke from the kitchen out of the building and into the open air safely. However, over time there can be a buildup of animal fats and grease on the interior walls of your ventilation system. Without regular inspection and cleaning, this grease buildup can become a severe fire risk.

The technical complexity and time-sensitive nature of commercial fire damage cleanup lead most Manayunk restaurants to seek out professional recovery services. A typical kitchen fire can lead to thick greasy deposits on the exterior walls directly above the cooking stove. The interior of your oven hood may also draw in hot smoke and exhaust fire onto the outer walls of the building. You should evacuate the property as quickly as possible and avoid using water in the event of a grease fire. A fire marshall can inform you when it is safe to return.

An oven hood contains several layers of filter to prevent grease from entering the chimney cavity or ventilation shaft. Over time, these filters become increasingly ineffective, and you should perform regular maintenance checks on the screens throughout the year to avoid commercial fire and resulting closure. In emergencies, SERVPRO can provide assistance to inspect, reduce loss, and restore a damaged restaurant kitchen. Our servicemen and women can remove appliances, use boroscopes to understand the extent of smoke damage throughout the vent accurately.

Mechanical equipment may be necessary to dislodge soots from inside restrictive spaces like ventilation shafts. Using air whips, which run an electrical charge to create a fast, agitative whipping motion that SERVPRO can feed inside a ventilation shaft, is useful in removing thick set soots. By applying negative air pressure, we can frequently restore the affected cylinder without requiring you to shell out for a full replacement. SERVPRO can refinish the remaining ceiling and appliance damages using a combination of cleaning chemicals to remove soots.

Overcoming a kitchen fire does not have to cause long-term closures or widescale replacements. Contact SERVPRO of Manayunk and Chestnut Hill at (215) 482-0800.

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