Kitchen Fires and Carpet Cleaning©

Author: Vartan Khazadian, owner of CleenCarpet®
11/11/2007

Kitchen fires are more common than most people think. Statistically, 1 in 19 people will have a small kitchen fire in their lifetime. Most of these accidents require no additional cleanup (other than the immediate kitchen area itself), however on occasion, kitchen fires can be large enough and emit enough odor throughout the house that carpet cleaning in other rooms is certainly warranted.

Kitchen fires often involve GREASE!
Have you ever smelled your house after cooking bacon? Multiply that smell by 1000%, and that is how your house will smell for weeks, if not months, after a grease fire. Carpets are like sponges, and will absorb many different odors such as fat and grease. Worse yet, the particles present in the smoke of a grease fire are far more concentrated that normal cooking vapors, and chances are that your windows were not open during the fire, thereby leaving them to settle and take hold in your carpet.

Most kitchens are not on the second floor…
If you live in a free standing house, your kitchen is probably not on the second floor. If it was, and you had a large kitchen fire, then you wouldn’t need to worry about the first floor. But remember, heat and yes, smoke, rise---a fire on the first floor will infect the fibers in the carpets on the second and third floors of your home. Didn’t think of that, huh? Carpet cleaning is again, recommended.

Firemen are dirty and their chemicals are nasty!
If you were unlucky enough to have a serious kitchen fire that called for the services of the local fire department, chances are that they didn’t wipe their feet when they stormed into your home eager to put out your fire. Also, if they sprayed chemicals from an extinguisher, those chemicals certainly settled into your carpet fibers. Again, carpet cleaning is recommended.

Carpet cleaning after a kitchen fire is only one task that needs attention after a kitchen fire. Yes, cleaning your carpets will drastically reduce the time it will take to get your home back to its original look and feel, but for expert advice on the total solution to repair your home after a kitchen fire, I strongly suggest you visit our friends at www.fireandfloodrepair.com. These folks are the experts, and can help make it seem as if the fire never happened.