[CAUT] Fire Damage Restoration

[Daniel Rembold]

Thanks to all for the helpful input on this subject.  I spent a couple of hours re-examining the piano, and considered everyone's input, but in the end decided to turn the job down.  
Dan

--- On Thu, 6/11/09, wbis290 <wbis290 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: wbis290 <wbis290 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Fire Damage Restoration
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 5:43 PM
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> Hi Dan,
>  
> I have been a volunteer
> firefighter for nineteen years and a piano technician for 39
> years. What the others said about waiting is true. Smoke
> today has some really nasty things in it that does many
> strange things besides killing you. It is amazing what is in
> smoke and what it can do. I am not going to write a book on
> this but I will tell you one thing, the man made
> material that is used in just about everything, when it
> burns, causes strange things to happen. The smoke today is
> so toxic that they are now telling firefighters to use your
> airpacks even after the fire is out and you cannot
> see any more smoke because of all the dangerous
> particles that are still in the air. Needless to
> say, these particles also stay on anything that
> the smoke comes in contact with. When the
> time comes for you to work on the piano, (I would wait at
> least 2-3 months), I would recommend wearing a mask and
> using 
>  latex or similar gloves. I know that this sounds a
> little like overreacting, but believe me, if
> you knew what is in most smoke, you would be glad
> to do that. Also, be sure to use whatever you are going to
> use to clean the parts with does not react adversely with
> what you are cleaning. Try a little on a small space first
> and see what will happen. Even professionals run into
> problems with the cleaners acting adversely to something
> even when it is not supposed to. Once again, it all depends
> on what was in the smoke. I hope things go well for
> you.
>  
> God blewss
>  
> Bill
> Balmer,RPT
> University of Findlay and
> Ohio Northern University
>  
> In a message dated 06/10/09 18:48:28 US Eastern
> Standard Time, d_rembold at yahoo.com writes:
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> I have been asked to clean and deodorize a small Nordiska
> grand with PianoDisc, which was exposed to smoke from a
> house fire.  There is no evidence of excessive heat,
> and the PianoDisk system plays fine. 
> 
> In my initial inspection I could find smoke residue only in
> a fine film at the back of the soundboard/plate, and on the
> keytops.  Fortunately the lid was down, but the
> fallboard was up at the time of the fire. 
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Dan Rembold, former RPT 
> Auburn University Staff Technician 
> 
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