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The heating season specialty: oily duct distributed soot cleaned dry first, house wide, with the furnace serviced and its record filed before it runs again.
Puff backs are the heating season's Pontiac specialty: an oil or gas furnace misfire that fills a house with oily soot through its own duct system, distributing a thin, acidic film to every room the ducts serve. The cleanup is house wide but shallow, dry methods first on walls and contents, the furnace itself serviced before it runs again, and the duct system read as part of the scope. A puff back is usually a claim event with a mechanical author, and the furnace's service record belongs in the file beside the cleaning scope.
A puff back looks alarming and is mostly a cleaning job, not a fire loss, but two rules matter: do not run the heat again before service, and do not wet wipe the soot, which is oily and smears into paint. Get the heating system serviced and the cleanup scoped together in the first calls.
📞 PLACEHOLDERRestoration scoped in three ledgers for an older city: the fire's damage, the mitigation, and the house's own century, separated from the first estimate.
Winter board up measured to survive a snow week, with the surviving structure's heat and water protected in the same mobilization.
Smoke cleanup that maps construction before chemistry: plaster porosity, lath gaps, and balloon cavities read as the reservoirs they are.
Dry first soot work sorted by Pontiac's surfaces, with electronics and furnace surfaces triaged early against the acid clock.
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