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Fire & Water - Cleanup & Restoration



Northwest Lake County Cleans Up Even After Smoke/Soot from Puff Backs!

Oil furnaces provide blissful heat, and they usually work without a hitch. When they don’t, however, the hitch is enormous. Puff backs, for example, fill your home with corrosive, greasy, foul-smelling smoke and soot that can reach every cranny of your home. As soon as you wipe one area clean, the circulating air deposits additional messes on the area. Call Northwest Lake County for experienced, high-quality, accredited cleaning, odor removal, and other restoration services. We even clean or repair the air ducts! Call 224-372-7772 the moment you realize that the damage is too extensive or complicated for you to handle alone. Our emergency response teams are on call all day, every day, and we always arrive quickly to prevent additional harm and remediate your property from the existing damage. Northwest Lake County is Here to Help® restore your home and belongings to pre-damage functioning regardless of the extent of the damage or the time that you call. We get rid of hazards, clean/disinfect your home, eliminate odors, and provide/supervise a full range of repairs, specialty restorations, and general contracting services.

  • Accredited by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC):
  • Nonprofit
  • Sets the standards for our industry
  • Ensures that we are always updated on the skills, best practices, technology & other equipment, regulatory knowledge, and industry trends that we may need to clean and remediate your property
  • Internationally respected
  • Certification that insurance companies often require
  • Locally Owned and Operated
  • Extensive and often-updated training
  • Remove hazards such as:
  • Corrosive smoke & smoke
  • Water, sewage, and other contaminants (if, for example, sprinklers are activated)
  • Microbial growth (such as mold)
  • Toxins from lead-based paint or other materials (such as pet messes, industrial solvents, and other materials
  • Grease 
  • Structural drying
  • Remediate your property from existing damage, and erect barriers to prevent additional damage from spreading
  • Restoration services such as remodeling, construction, general contracting, and other building services
  • Cleaning and disinfection
  • Odor elimination
  • Paperwork wizards who handle documentation and other requirements for your insurance company

At Northwest Lake County, we hope that regular maintenance prevents a puff back or related disaster, but if the worst happens, we will do everything possible to make the damage “Like it never even happened.”

Northwest Lake County is Always Faster to Any Size Disaster: 224-372-7772