Placing a piano in an Ozone rich environment will do wonders for smoke smell. I have sent several to a place that has an Ozone chamber set up, mostly for furniture (fire restoration company). One thing I have been cautioned about is that Ozone is very corrosive to metal and, in the cases I've worked on, have done a major refurbishing of the piano at that time including pulling the plate, restringing and usually more. Perhaps a lower exposure or a smaller time frame lessens the corrosive effect of Ozone. Also, something to bear in mind about 'smoke damage' is that the effects of the smoke sometimes can take many months to become obvious. Unfortunately, I don't know of an accurate way to quantify smoke damage. I normally estimate planning on the worst case scenario. It's kinda like water damage. How bad is bad? (And then insurance brings up a whole new can of worms... Oh, how things get complicated!...) Just my $0.02 Take care, Brian T. ===== Brian Trout Grand Restorations 3090 Gause Blvd., #202 Slidell, LA 70461 985-649-2700 GrandRestorations@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com
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