My apartment caught fire. My clothes, furniture have smoke damage. Can this be salvaged?

Answer 1

You can hire companies to clean your furniture. But smoke damage is pretty hard to remove and it usually isn't worth the cost. Especially since in doesn't always work. That smell is nearly impossible to remove entirely. I hope you had renters insurance.

Answer 2

I had a house fire when I was little you might just want to replace both the smell is hard to get rid of in your clothes and furniture. My folks did salvage some furniture like end tables and the piano. My niece has the piano and once in a while you can smell the smoke. It is a different smell than like a camp fire. I will never forget that smell. the end table I have and I do not smell the smoke. Find someone who can clean up the furniture. The couch and chairs I think my folks replaced it was hard to get the smell out of the fabric.

Answer 3

I just had a fire myself and yes, your clothing and furniture can be salvaged. There is a great new product I found at Lowes called Krud Kutter. It is non-toxic, fume free and biodegradable and works like a charm to clean up smoke damage. There are ratios on the back to mix the product with water to use depending on the job. You can put it in laundry, steam clean your upholstery, your carpet, even painted surfaces. I admit, however, I also used Borax in the laundry along with it to remove the smoke odor. It even removes the soot residue from surfaces like kitchen cabinets, countertops, doors and their frames, metal furniture bases, etc. Once gallon of the stuff did most everything in my 2500 square foot home. And, it did a better job than the Service Magic people my insurance company sent after a fire I had in my rentals.

Answer 4

It may be able to be savgaged. My house caught fire and everything had smoke damage. You can hire someone to clean your furniture. We still have a chair that was in the house and we had it cleaned and let it air out outside and it does not smell at all. For the clothes...we had to replace most of them because we could not get the smell out. I am sorry for your house. I hope this helps some.

Answer 5

Clothes and fabric can be sprinkled with baking soda and then vacuumed or treated with upholstery shampoo. If none of these or any other solutions prove successful, wipe down and thoroughly wash all the surfaces of a room. It is most likely the residue causing the smoke smell to stay. Of course, there are probably just as many solution recipes for wiping down a house as there are for removing the odor from clothes and hair. Many of these recipes include a combination of vinegar, washing soda, and water. More remedies include citrus products, orange peels, and coffee beans.
When all else fails you will have to call a specialist

Answer 6

A lot of the stuff will have to be replaced. The clothing might be salvagable if you wash it with vinegar. I don't know if the vinegar treatment will work on your furniture or not.

That must have been scary!

Answer 7

White vinegar in a "plant mister bottle" and also you only walk round and objective in the course of the popcorn ceiling, and also the drapes, curtains, even flat(or mat) painted walls, and also the carpets. With a mild mist and walk backwards out of the rooms. Now supply the room a 1/2 hour for the vinegar to evaporate(because it evaporates it takes the scent with it - any scent with the aid of the indisputable fact that's a comfortable acid which will carry an scent atom with it. It does no longer stain because you only misted the room.(no longer soaked the walls or textile) So; what did you no longer wash? Curtains, drapes, wall to wall carpeting, popcorn ceiling(and the record is going on). Now I practice dinner, and a number of my dishes contain a warm wok and Brussel sprouts. One can't answer YA questions once you obtain a 5 minute dish cooking on a pink warm element(so i realized) And BS smells like all different BS at the same time as it burns. honestly a woodland hearth smells gentle in evaluation. Rotting uncooked meat does no longer even evaluate. impolite does no longer commence to describe it. and clearly it became wintry climate. . frequently in the spring and summer season and fall months you leave each and each and every of the homestead windows open so as that the breeze dilutes it and consists of out to the exterior. Works only at the same time as that's livable outdoors. . in the wintry climate, at the same time as that's freezing chilly. homestead windows are staying closed reason "i like a heated homestead" yet am no longer interested in paying extreme heating expenses with the aid of open homestead windows. on the on the spot at the same time as moist it smells like vinegar, which isn't large. 1/2 hour and also you'll't scent the vinegar or the scent both. you need to also commence cooking cabbage or beets in a huge pot or you need to do a self lobotomy and disconnect the skill to smell something Smoke? what smoke?

Answer 8

Check the yellow pages in the phone book. There are company's that specialize in smoke damage. If you have insurance call the company and they will have it cleaned up.

Answer 9

Call 1-800- servpro ...they say they can clean it up ...like it never even happened.

Never had to use them myself but it's a thought.

Answer 10

yes...there are cleaning companies that do that specific thing...cleaning smoke damaged items.