They Are Not Spider Webs

2/25/2022 (Permalink)

When I first started out in the restoration industry, I thought that fires were the most interesting part of my job. From the burn patterns, figuring out the point of origin, to accelerants, arson investigations there were so many variables, each fire, and the way it burned was vastly different. I learned very quickly that the way you clean-up after a fire also varies from one fire to another. Over my 27-year career with SERVPRO I have learned so much.

When I went into these burned homes, I always wondered why the homes and commercial buildings we were cleaning up had such spider issues. Little did I know that in certain conditions called wet smoke, involving low heat, or smoldering type environments was what was causing these webs

Smoke webs are long chains of ionized smoke particles that assemble. Smoke-webs do not require pre-existing dust webs for support. Smoke webs are typically sticky and pungent and will smudge easily and show up areas where there is limited air flow, typically corners and edges of ceilings, in curtain folds, cabinets etc. In short, it is when plastics burn, the smoke carries a stronger charge than when wood, cotton, or paper burns. Depending on what exactly the webs are made of, they can be difficult to clean.

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