Specialty Cleaning Services

When You Need a Restoration Company for Cleaning

We understand that when you need cleaning, your first decision might be to contact a maid service. However, you should contact a specialty cleaning service when the cleaning task involves:

• Hazardous biological materials (blood, tissues, sewage, etc.)
• Hazardous chemicals (oil, gasoline, solvents, drugs)
• Structural risks (potential damage due to flood, fire, etc.)
• Mold on walls and elsewhere
• Potential disease exposure
• Materials saturated with odors
• Damage to the home
• Hard-to-clean substances like paint

In these situations, a maid service may not be able to safely handle the situation. The company may not have the equipment to safely and effectively remove contaminants. Failure to properly clean an area in these situations can put your property and your family at risk. Structural cleaning, for example, must investigate and clean the structural supports of the home to make sure they are sound. In addition, it might be hard to sell a property that was contaminated but not successfully cleaned, and if you do sell it without proper cleaning, you may be responsible for illness or injury to the new occupants.

In addition, a maid service’s cleaners may not have the appropriate safety gear to protect themselves from exposure during cleaning. If this happens, you might be held responsible for any injuries or illness they develop as a result.

Crime Scene and Unattended Death Cleanup

If your home or other property was the scene of a crime or unattended death, the responsibility for cleanup falls to you. Sometimes, your insurance may cover the cost of crime scene cleanup, and many cities have local resources to further aid with the expense. FLEET Response’s local companies can help direct you to these resources if you are eligible.

Violent Crime Scene Cleanup

Cleanup of a crime scene requires a detailed and thorough response. With the high potential for exposure to hazardous biological materials, it’s important to work with someone who not only knows how to clean the space, but has the equipment to avoid exposure to their workers. The cleaners must also understand decontamination procedures that can prevent spreading exposure to other parts of the home.

FLEET Response’s local companies are also capable of repairing damage to the home that may have resulted from the crime, including a break-in, struggle, or gunfire.

Unattended Death Cleanup

An unattended death scene may also require thorough cleaning. Although the contamination may be concentrated in a particular area, a long time may have passed before discovery, allowing contamination to seep deep into flooring and even structural components of your home.

Drug-Contaminated Structures

Drug crime scenes may also require specialized cleaning. Places where drugs were manufactured, distributed, or sold can become contaminated by the drugs themselves, which can remain potent poisons capable of making a person ill or contributing to unexplained moods or reactions.

Fentanyl is the drug that’s the greatest concern today, as illegal fentanyl operations across the country have contaminated houses, apartments, and other structures, leading to concerns about occupational exposure for emergency responders, but also to future occupants, especially children.

If you suspect your property was used as a drug factory or warehouse, it’s important to properly clean it to protect your future tenants – and protect yourself from liability.

Structural Cleaning

Structural cleaning is an approach that does more than simply clean the surface of your home. It works to clean the components of the home that may have been damaged in a disaster, which can include the foundations, floor joists, ceiling joists, and wall studs. It may involve the removal of damaged components, either to allow inspection or because they are damaged in ways that can’t be cleaned.

The two most common situations where structural cleaning is used are fires and floods.

Structural Cleaning after a Fire

When you have fire damage to your home, it’s important to examine much of the structure to remove soot and ash from it. This allows our local companies to remove odors and possibly toxic fumes from your home. It’s also important because it lets them identify when structural supports might have been damaged by the fire.

Wood can be weakened by fire even when it doesn’t burn. Heated wood can become brittle. Metal can also be changed by fire. At a minimum, the stress of heating can change the relationship between supports and fasteners, loosening screws and rivets. More serious heat exposure can change the metal itself, potentially reducing its strength.

Structural Cleaning after a Flood

When you have flood damage to your home, the water can penetrate deeply into the structure and saturate it. When this happens, it’s important to clean out all the water and any ongoing effects of water damage. The biggest concern here is mold. If water remediation wasn’t done properly or in a timely manner, mold can take hold. In addition to people’s concerns about black mold, other mold and microorganisms can attack your wood structure, weakening it. In addition, metal structural components can rust after exposure to water.

If you didn’t have professional water remediation after a flood or if the flood delayed the response too much, structural cleaning can give our local restoration experts a good look at studs and joists to make sure they’re not currently weakened or likely to become weakened.

Mold Remediation

Mold can take hold wherever it has access to sufficient water. The source of water can be anything: a leaky roof, a dripping pipe, a damp basement, a broken appliance, and more. However, once the mold starts to grow, it will grow on and through anything it can reach where there is water.

By the time you see mold, it has likely been growing for a long time and has penetrated deep through the wall. Simply cleaning mold from the surface won’t take care of the bigger problem. FLEET Response’s local companies provide comprehensive mold remediation services that involve identifying the source of water, removing parts of the home that can’t be cleaned, and disinfecting the areas that can be cleaned to kill off the mold that’s already there.

Disinfection

A sick house is a real phenomenon. Although the house itself isn’t sick, it can be so permeated with disease organisms that anyone in the house is very likely to get sick. In these cases, simply cleaning the house isn’t enough: you will want to disinfect it to protect against future sickness.

FLEET Response’s local companies offer comprehensive virus and pathogen cleaning services. They can thoroughly disinfect a sick house and its contents. This will dramatically reduce the risk of future illness. If you know what type of sickness has infected the house, let our local cleaning teams know so that they can target their disinfection approach for maximum effectiveness.

Odor Removal

Odors in your home can diminish your quality of life, but they can also become a serious obstacle to selling or renting a property. Odors can have many sources. Sometimes they come from constant exposure to sources of odor, including pets, smokers, and cooking. Other times, odors can be due to a sudden event, including a fire, flood, backed up sewer, or unattended death.

Odors occur when chemicals from the source of the odor penetrate your home. Superficial cleaning will remove the visible dirt, and it can temporarily control odors. However, removing odors for the long-term requires specialized practices. This may include removing saturated components of your home. Other times, FLEET Response’s local companies will inject special odor-neutralizing compounds that can break down the source of odors to prevent them from returning.

If your home is saturated by odors, it makes sense to address it right the first time. Don’t settle for a simple cleaning, get specialty cleaning services that can eliminate the odors at the source.

HVAC Cleaning

Your home’s air system keeps air flowing throughout the building. This is generally beneficial, but it can be damaging if the HVAC system gets contaminated. When this occurs, it’s important to thoroughly clean out the HVAC system to ensure that it doesn’t continue to spread harmful microorganisms, toxic fumes, or unpleasant odors.

FLEET Response’s local companies can thoroughly clean out your entire HVAC system, including the ducts, filters, blowers, heat exchangers, and more.

Vandalism Repair and Graffiti Removal

Depending on the location of your property, vandalism and graffiti may be a regular occurrence. However, even having your house graffitied or vandalized once can be bad enough.

Vandalism and graffiti most often impact the outside of your property, but if it isn’t properly boarded up, or it’s left unattended while boarded up for too long, vandals can break in and damage the interior. Our local companies are prepared to handle repairs to many types of vandalized or graffitied surfaces, whether it’s on the outside or the inside. This can include wood, brick, concrete, asphalt, glass, and more.

There’s no need to contact two companies – one to clean graffiti and another to repair vandalism – our local companies are prepared to handle all parts of vandalism restoration from initial inspection to the finishing touches that return your property to its previous condition.