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Dry first soot work sorted by Pontiac's surfaces, with electronics and furnace surfaces triaged early against the acid clock.
Soot removal here sorts by the city's surfaces: dry soot on plaster and painted wood in the older homes, wet, smeared soot where modern synthetics burned in any era's home, and the acidic residue that starts corroding metals and etching finishes within days. The order is dry methods first, vacuuming and dry sponges before any wet cleaning touches a surface, because wet first is how soot becomes stain. Electronics, appliances, and the furnace's own surfaces are triaged early, since acid soot's clock runs fastest on them.
Soot is the clock in a fire loss. Within 24 to 48 hours its acidity starts permanent damage to metals, grout, and finishes, and within days it can yellow plastics and set stains that cleaning cannot reverse. Do not vacuum it with a household machine and do not wet wipe it; both spread it.
📞 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.
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.
Smoke cleanup that maps construction before chemistry: plaster porosity, lath gaps, and balloon cavities read as the reservoirs they are.
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