• Flood and Fire Damage:
  • Disasters such as floods and fires can cause extensive damage to homes, including smoke, soot, and water damage.
  • The impact extends beyond structural damage, affecting personal belongings with warping, mold, and rust.
  • These damages can lead to the loss of items with both monetary and sentimental value.
• Immediate Disaster Restoration:
  • Prompt action is crucial for victims of flood or fire to minimize permanent damage to personal property.
  • Addressing water and smoke damage quickly is essential to preserve important items.
• Steps to Save Damaged Items:
  • Drain Standing Water:
    • Immediately drain any standing water left from the incident.
    • Empty water from items like shoes, pet food bowls, and appliances.
    • Use towels to remove as much remaining water as possible to prevent bacteria and mold growth.
  • Dealing with Fabrics:
    • Remove waterlogged fabrics and hang them to dry.
    • Do not wash bedding or clothes. Instead, turn them over to a disaster restoration company to avoid cross-contamination with mold, bacteria, or smoke and soot damage.
    • Qualified restoration companies can properly disinfect, clean, and sterilize fabrics.
  • Cleaning Up:
    • Spray hard surfaces with degreasers and wipe them down, ensuring compatibility with delicate items like LCD screens or pottery glaze.
    • For furniture recovery, lift each leg, wipe it down, and remove any collected water. Cover the furniture with plastic until the home is dry.
    • Open all drawers and doors to promote air circulation, helping to remove mildew and smoke odor.
  • Document Recovery:
    • Carefully dry books, documents, and papers with paper towels and lay them out to dry, avoiding direct sunlight.
    • Use a dehumidifier to draw moisture out, but note that paper may dry with wrinkles unless processed with a document vacuum processing system available at specialized restoration companies.
  • Ultrasonic Recovery:
    • Avoid discarding items prematurely; modern ultrasonic cleaning can recover many household items previously considered unsalvageable.
    • Ultrasonic cleaning can eliminate smoke and soot smells and clean a wide range of items, including teddy bears and computers.
    • Utilizing ultrasonic cleaning systems through a professional restoration service can save significant money and recover cherished belonging

Just remember, when all seems lost, the situation is rarely as dire as it first appears. If you would like more information on how an ultrasonic cleaner can help you save your household items, give us a call at 888-989-5560 for help on selecting the right tank. And don’t forget to ask us about OmegaSmoke!

Smoke, heat, and water after a fire or flood can severely damage your household or business belongings.  Before ultrasonic-cleaning technology arrived on the scene, victims of natural disasters like these would be forced to throw out much of what they owned.

As you might imagine, purchasing new items got extremely expensive, and wrestling with insurance payouts made it doubly difficult. It was time-consuming enough to simply replace those items one could go out and buy, like appliances, everyday dishes, computers, electronics, clothing, and other common household items.

However, the worst part of disaster restoration was handling those irreplaceable items like family heirlooms or other one-of-a-kind keepsakes. Those items can never be replaced.

Restoration with Ultrasonic Cleaning Tackles Fire or Flood Damage

After a fire, your household belongings may be oxidized, bent out of shape from heat, covered with soot, and waterlogged from attempts to put the fire out. In the past, many of these items would be beyond repair.

Today, restoration companies that specialize in fire damage can now remove the soot and smell from most of those items and return them to their original condition, thanks to ultrasonic cleaning systems and technology. Those items that are too large or require special cleaning—like large appliances and computers—can be cleaned as well. Companies that use ultrasonic cleaning can also salvage your precious family heirlooms.

The same is true if your home or business is subjected to water damage from a flood. After the waters subside, your property might be covered in mud and smell like dead fish or decaying water plants. If they are left alone without further treatment, your items may have bacteria and mold start to grow on them, making them a health risk.

Once a restoration company comes in and begins ultrasonic cleaning, however, most of those items can be saved, and they will not be a health risk in the present time or in the future. Most items can be restored to pre-flood condition, with all the dirt and smell cleaned away.

Thanks to ultrasonic cleaning, many irreplaceable items can be completely salvaged, and even those that are more easily replaceable can be cleaned at a fraction of the cost of buying them new.

The end result? Ultrasonic cleaning not only saves money for both consumers and insurance companies, but also can restore precious belongings, and you can’t put a price on that.

Restoration with Ultrasonic Cleaning: Cost-Effective and Powerful

Whether you’re an end consumer or representing an insurance agency, you’ve got to love the lower cost associated with ultrasonic-cleaning restoration. Restoration companies charge only a fraction of what it would cost if you had to buy all of those items again, and they do it using safe, gentle, environmentally responsible ultrasonic-cleaning systems that won’t damage even the most delicate and fragile of your items.

On-site, mobile units can be used to clean and return your smaller items to you right away, reducing cost and turnaround time. For larger items, restoration companies usually offer centralized facilities equipped to handle almost any size and weight household item while still doing a thorough cleaning job.

What can be cleaned and restored? You may be surprised to learn that almost anything can be cleaned with ultrasonic-cleaning methods. Small appliances, radios, and other electronics, computers, dishes, kitchenware,clothes, toys, and even mini-blinds can be cleaned and returned using ultrasonic-cleaning technology.

Being the victim of a fire or flood is painful enough for you and your family without the added misery, cost and time spent shopping for a whole household’s worth of belongings. Not to mention the heartache involved with having to throw away treasured family heirlooms because they’re covered in soot and are too delicate to scrub clean.

Fire damage and water damage can now be more effectively removed with ultrasonic-cleaning techniques. Thanks to this transformative technology, a tragedy, if it strikes, can be a lot less stressful to your family.

Want to know more about how contents restoration through ultrasonic cleaning can save both time and money after fire and flood damage?  Contact one of our ultrasonic cleaning consultants today at Omegasonics or give our experts a call at (888) 420-4445.

Standing water will continue to cause damage in the form of decay, warping, and rust, not to mention the longer-term effects of mold and mildew growth on your family’s health.

Getting the water out of your belongings quickly is the key to salvaging them after a catastrophic event like a fire or flood, and knowing how to handle soot and smoke-damaged articles is equally important. Here are some suggestions you can use to save your belongings in the short term if you are ever faced with such an event, and save them forever by using ultrasonic cleaning technology:

• Drain standing water immediately. Anything that can hold water should be turned over and emptied as soon as possible, including bowls, appliances, electronics, and furnishings.
• Remove waterlogged area rugs, blankets, clothes, tablecloths, and pillows and hang them up in a dry location.
• If you have power, get the air conditioning or heater running, floor and ceiling fans started, and a dehumidifier going.
• Use towels to soak up as much water as you can from furniture, flooring, and carpets. Wring the towels out, and repeat the process as many times as needed.
• Clothes covered with soot and smoke should not be washed, but should be turned over to a qualified restoration company specializing in soft contents cleaning. Soot does not dissolve in water, and will leave fabrics a greasy mess. Hard-surfaced objects, however, like bowls, appliances, and furnishings, can be sprayed with a degreaser and wiped down, but make sure the chemicals are compatible with the surface finishes. Some will melt plastics and paints. Don’t eat from kitchen utensils that have been cleaned in this way until they have been washed in warm soapy water with diluted bleach added.
• Important documents, papers, books, and pictures should be blotted with a paper towel and laid out on a flat surface to air dry. Keep them out of direct sunlight.
• If you have wooden furniture (or furniture with wooden legs) setting on wet carpet, lift each leg, wipe off any surface water, and then place a plastic sandwich baggie under and around it before setting it back down. This will keep additional water from being absorbed into the wood.
• Open as many drawers and doors as possible to promote air circulation and ventilation. This includes all interior doors, exterior doors where possible, and drawers and doors in furniture.

Notice that the words “throw it out” are not included anywhere on this list. That’s because modern ultrasonic cleaning technology makes it possible to save many of the items that previously would have been unsalvageable. Yes, there will still be things that must be discarded, but professional restoration companies equipped with ultrasonic cleaners can help you recover items as diverse as stuffed animals, computers, appliances, and mini blinds. The key is to get the standing water away from your items quickly, and then call a restoration company in short order to help you keep your possessions.

Ultrasonic cleaning is gentle, safe, and incredibly effective. The process can remove the soot and smoky smells left behind after a fire, remove mold and mildew, and safely clean your delicate, irreplaceable family heirlooms. Restoration companies can come right to your door to begin the salvage process and return your items to you, or send them off to a restoration center for special care (like large appliances and electronics). Everything you can save is something you don’t have to go out and buy again, so they can help you keep a substantial amount of money in your pocket.

Following the tips listed here can get you started on the path to saving your personal belongings, household goods, and family keepsakes. Once you’ve taken these steps, however, it’s important to contact a professional restoration company and get them working to return your items to pre-loss condition using ultrasonic cleaning technology.

Frank Pedeflous, president of Omegasonics, gives a brief look at the restoration process of sensitive items such as electronics.

More information can be found at omegasonics.com or by calling an Omegasonics ultrasonics and contents restoration expert toll free 1-800-669-8227.

With a storm this size, the flooding of homes and business is typically one of the lingering effects.

In combination with insurance companies, restoration companies play a significant role in restoring water-damaged contents.

Because ultrasonic technology is routinely used in the cleaning process, important household items such as keepsakes, computers and toys to name a few can now be completely restored.

In years past, an insurance company’s flood analysis would show that only 65-70% of damaged contents could be restored. These items would then be cashed out. However, when ultrasound is used, that same percentage increases to over 90%… saving both money and memories.

“Our goal as a restoration contractor is to return items back to homeowners, not have the replaced,” said Adam Weigand, owner of Paul Davis Restoration of Columbus, OH. “Omegasonics has given us the ability to accomplish this at a very high rate of success, which not only validates our participation in the restoration process, but also leaves the homeowner blown away with what we can save for them.”

Ultrasound utilizes environmentally safe cleaning soaps, heat, water, and sound waves. Restoration professionals across the country have found ultrasonic cleaning technology to be more cost effective and less labor intrusive. Most importantly… it does a better job of cleaning.

For a recommended list of restoration professionals utilizing ultrasonic cleaning technology, please go to this page.