Fire damage cleaning across Edinburgh.

Fire damage cleaning is the specialist removal of smoke residue, soot and heat damage after a fire, however small the fire was. Smoke travels much further than the burn area. It gets into fabrics, carpets, wall finishes, ceilings, ductwork, behind fittings and into the building fabric itself.

In a tenement it also travels up the common stair. A pan fire in one flat can leave three others smelling of it for weeks, and the flat that never caught fire still needs the work done before anyone will rent it or buy it. A property cleaned only at the visible level can look fine and stay unlettable.

The teams we refer this work to use degreasers, dry-sponge methods, ozone or hydroxyl odour treatment, and cleaning of extract fans, vents and ducting to deal with smoke at every level. Most of them handle insurance work directly, including the documentation an insurer asks for.

Fire damage cleaning is a layered process. The team works from the structure outward, and from removing contamination toward neutralising odour.

The assessment maps the burn zone, the smoke-affected zone, which is always larger, and any structural concern that needs a surveyor before cleaning starts. Photographs are taken throughout for the insurance file.

Soot and smoke residue removal starts with dry-sponge work, using specialist sponges that lift soot rather than smearing it, across walls, ceilings and hard surfaces. Heavier deposits are degreased with industrial chemistry. Carpets and soft furnishings are assessed one by one: what can be saved is deep-cleaned and treated, what cannot is bagged, photographed and documented for the claim.

Extract fans, vents and ducting have to be cleaned. Smoke settles inside them and keeps re-releasing the smell into the property long after the visible work is finished. Skipping that stage is the single most common reason a flat still smells of smoke a month later.

Odour treatment uses ozone or hydroxyl generators. Ozone is faster and stronger, hydroxyl is safer to run while people are in the property. The team picks based on access and timeline. Both work on the smell itself rather than covering it.

Insurance documentation is produced throughout: scope of work, photographs, itemised disposal, certificate of completion. Where the policy allows it, the team deals with your insurer directly.

Mid-claim is the worst time to be juggling three quotes, three scopes of work and three sets of paperwork. We do the matching once, on our side, and hand you one team with the reasons we picked them.

Where a fire on the stair has smoked several flats, one team quoting the whole stair is usually simpler for everyone than four separate jobs on four separate timelines. If your neighbours are in the same position, say so on the form.

The team handles the insurance liaison, but our brief on the front end means they arrive at the assessment already knowing the scope, the timeline and the constraints.

It costs you nothing. The team quotes the insurer or you directly. We are paid a referral fee by them after the job.

We connect fire damage cleaning customers with three vetted Edinburgh specialist partners, and we pick the right one for each case on certifications, availability and the specifics of the job.

Lead specialist for fire damage cleaning: Vetted restoration and post-build team. Fire work goes to teams that can produce insurer-grade documentation as well as clean: scope of work, photographic record, itemised disposal and a certificate of completion. We name the firm and what we checked when we make the introduction. Public liability cover and the paperwork an insurer will ask for are confirmed before we put a name forward.

Also available: Vetted biohazard and trauma cleaning team and Vetted clearance and heavy-clean team. We check public liability cover, licensed hazardous-waste disposal and background checks before we refer anyone. Waste carrier registration and background checks for occupied homes are confirmed before we make an introduction.

You don't choose the specialist yourself. On our call after you submit the form, we'll match your case to the right partner based on certifications, current availability, and the specifics. You pay the specialist directly. We never add a markup.