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All of the material
possessions in your home make up what is
defined as "contents". This includes your
furniture as well as all of the items
that are in the drawers, cupboards,
desks, closets, rooms and or nooks and
crannies of your home. For insurance
purposes, basically, anything that is not
part of your house structure is
considered "contents".
Replacing homeowner contents
with new ones is not a foregone
conclusion just because there was a fire
or flood. With the rapid emergency
response of today's municipal Fire
Departments and current modern
technology, most fires are extinguished
before a total loss status is reached. If
the insured person suffers a covered
loss from a fire or flood, water damage
or some other peril, in the majority
of cases, some or all of the contents can
be cleaned or restored to an "as good as
or better condition" than before the
loss.
At Professional Furniture
Service, we specialize in contents
restoration; handling all contents except
for clothing. (Smoke or water damage to
clothing and linens and their unique
cleaning specifications require the
services of a professional dry cleaner
experienced in the restoration of covered
losses.)
Historically, there was
never a reliable remedy for residual
smoke odor after a fire so possessions
were deemed a total loss and thrown out.
Nowadays, safe, non-toxic industrial
products such as Smoke Out, ( a liquid
cleaner similar to the ingredients in the
commercially available Febreez product),
are used to effectively remove smoke
odor.
Ozone
Room
Professional Furniture Service also makes good
use of our custom built 500 sq. ft. OZONE ROOM
for persistent smoke odors. 03, or
ozone is a naturally occurring element that
neutralizes carbon atoms ( which is what smoke
odor is made of ). Professional Furniture
Service uses an ozone-generating machine to
pump the invisible, sweet smelling ozone vapors
into a chamber containing the furniture and
other items needing smoke removal. It usually
takes 3 to 5 days of ozone exposure to
eliminate the smoke odor.
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