- Serving Long Beach, CA
- 24/7 Emergency Services
- IICRC: 70194273
SOS Restoration of Long Beach works both halves of a fire loss. First the water the crew left, then the soot and the smell, then the rebuild. Soot spreads well past the burn. The look is free. Call (657) 660-4185.
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We close the openings, then pull the water the hoses left.
A fire loss is a water loss too. Before soot, the framing has to dry, or mold arrives on top of the burn. We board the openings, then dry to a number, the same as any water job.
Because odor lives in the material, not in the air.
Fog the room and it reads clean for a few days, then a hot afternoon wakes it up. Soot is acidic and oily, so paint rolled straight over it bleeds through. It has to be cleaned off, not covered.
Until the subfloor reads under sixteen percent three mornings running.
Dry is a number here, not a feeling. The plywood under your finish floor has to hold that reading three days straight. Long Beach gives roughly forty-nine good drying days a year, so timing matters.
Often yes, through smoke that crossed the wall or the attic.
Smoke does not respect a property line. A guide on a fire next door covers what to check. It reaches Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes and Signal Hill alike.
The same crew that cleaned the soot, under one license.
No handoff to a stranger halfway through. The people who cleared the smell frame, board and paint the room back. Ask the dispatcher how the two halves connect.
A scorched pan and a marked ceiling clean up with a sponge and primer.
Smoke work earns its price when the smell is inside framing or ductwork. There, paint reaches nothing and the first warm afternoon brings it straight back.
Usually yes, if the burn stayed in one room and the air is filtered.
We seal what is damaged and run scrubbers so the rest of the house stays usable. A structural burn is different, and we say so on the first visit.
The visit is free; emergency fire work starts at $90 an hour.
The whole card sits on one page: the rate sheet. Our photos and readings become the insurance claim, so the carrier sees what we saw.
Smoke does not stop at a city line, and neither do we: Long Beach first, then the Los Angeles County cities out to about twenty miles. Each city page tells you what its houses tend to do after a fire.
The number is the part that matters. The rest just tells us which crew to send and how far up the road they are going.
Soot from a fire turns more acidic the longer it sits, so the first day matters most.