Smoke damage

Following a fire in the next door shop around one-third of our house and one workshop is covered in a thick black greasy film of burnt plastics residue. Now that we somewhere to cook, eat, and sleep, and before the arrival of the Insurers clean up team, is there anything usefully preventative I can do for the grinding machines and numerous other tools in the affected workshop? I've assumed that the plastics residue will be chlorinated and will tend to form HCl so have set the (black :-) dehumidifier to work in that workshop.

-- thanks for any help Roland Craven Nr. Exeter, Devon, UK snipped-for-privacy@petternut.co.uk

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Roland Craven
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arrival of the

workshop?

When my launderette was badly smoke damaged, the insurers damage control people sprayed all the machines with normal WD40

AWEM

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Andrew Mawson

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John Ambler

Sounds all too familiar. Take photographs, keep evidence. Get your insurers to employ a specialist firm of smoke damage mitigation experts. Some years ago our premises, packed full with very high value electronics, got smoke damaged from a plastics fire "next door". After our cleaning experts had done their work, our equipment was better than "new" and in some cases engineers reported better electrical performance than before the fire.

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Malcolm Stewart

My thanks for the many helpful replies both on and off group.

regards

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Roland Craven

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