A massive fire in San Francisco affected multiple properties leaving behind significant commercial fire damage in a commercial plaza with both smoke and water damage for the SERVPRO techs to handle. The techs brought everything needed, including generators, to get the job done. 

Commercial water damage developed at this San Francisco office building when the fire retardant sprinkler system inadvertently activated. SERVPRO of Belmont/San Carlos can respond 24/7 to help facilitate repairs to the sprinkler system and to clean up the water and the damaged ceiling tiles.

The torn roof allowed a strong wind to dislodge a water supply line in the wall of this San Francisco house. The soaked cavity required a flood cut to minimize the demolition and the overall cost. SERVPRO has the expertise and equipment to restore this storm-damaged area to its preloss condition.

When our customer came home to a large amount of water in her bedroom, she contacted team SERVPRO for water removal services.  Our technicians arrived on site within the hour and started the mitigation process. The end result was very successful.

The team at SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos held its annual strategy meeting at FrsTEAMS' corporate headquarters' new conference room in Hayward, California. We discussed business strategies for the upcoming year. It was a successful meeting, and we left feeling inspired and motivated. Thank you to the FrsTEAM for letting us use their facility. 

Disasters are stressful for everyone and affect the furry members of your family as well.  SERVPRO of Belmont San Carlos is your pet-friendly restoration company.  We will work with you to make the remediation and restoration of your home as easy as possible for you and your pets.

Mold is very tricky and should only be dealt with by a team of experts like ours at SERVPRO. Our crew is ready 24/7 and will respond quickly to your mold damage emergency. SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos has the equipment, training, and experience to restore your home to pre-damage condition.

Our SERVPRO team arrived swiftly to remove the water from a wet commercial carpet in the hallway of an assisted living facility. San Francisco properties and businesses often rely upon us to mitigate water losses with immediate action. The air movers and the dehumidifier are finishing up another job well-done, with virtually no disruption to the residents.

Team SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos recently underwent additional Large Loss Response Team (LLRT) training.  Our IICRC technicians are continually offered Continuing Education (CE) opportunities to add to their skills.

Did you know SERVPRO of Belmont/San Carlos serves senior living homes, local community buildings, and more?

Jose Medrano, Production Manager (in center reading) is performing a training session with production department team members. Each week the managers at SERVPRO perform employee training and motivation using a book titled, The Four Disciplines of Execution. Our company calls this the 4DX Book. It teaches the managers and their team how to set goals, or to be more specific "Wildly Important Goals". Each week past goals are set and then reviewed for the success of their implementation. The former goals are adjusted, and or new goals are established for the following week. The idea is to be proactive. To always be moving forward. Instead of waiting until some project has been completed and then analyzing the final results, the 4DX program looks at indicators along the way. 

Our SERVPRO storm team is ready for action for flooding disaster cleanup in Texas. Flood waters bring bacterial contamination and eventual mold growth problems to structures. Our restoration workers have to wear PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) while working in these conditions.

Both. In this photo the support beams (floor joists) are contaminated with dry rot and mold. Dry rot is member of the Fungi family that "eats" wood by sucking the moisture from the wood, causing it to loss it's density and crumble. Mold often grows along side dry rot. Mold puts out gases that produce odors and can pose potential health issues to humans. When you see dry rot or mold it needs to be removed. 

Few restoration companies are willing to perform content cleaning. It is tedious and detailed work. At SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos we take pride in the talented and hard working team of dedicated technicians who perform this work for our customers who have experienced a fire in their home or place of business. Over the years we have cleaned contents on location and in our shop. Be assured, if you suffer smoke and soot damage, we can make it like it never even happened.

A property management company asked us to find the source of a musty odor. We concluded that the carpet and underlayment were the source of the odor. We were told to remove the carpet and carpet pad. Carpet cleaning vendors had over wetted the carpet several times causing mold to grow on the wood sub floor. Cleanup and new carpet and the problem was solved. Call SERVPRO at 650-591-4137 for solutions to odor problems.

One of our most interesting and unique cleaning jobs was aboard a commercial salmon fishing boat. Our technicians cleaned up the contamination of an oily soot fire that started in the engine room and spread to the galley, sleeping berths, and wheelhouse. removed the odor. We cleaned the boat in three days. The captain was happily back on the water for the first day of salmon season. You can count on SERVPRO of Belmont/San Carlos to float your boat.

Animals in an attic create a biohazard cleanup situation. Over the years, we have learned that Raccoons establish a designated toilet area. In some ways this simplifies the cleanup effort compared to other critters that make a home in an attic. If your home or facility needs help, give us a call at 50-591-4137.

Fire damage to a San Carlos home led to content removal. We cleaned and stored the homeowners belongs at our facility. Content cleaning near our specialized equipment is an efficient method of restoring the homeowner's belongings with the added benefit of preventing more damage during the restoration process required after a San Carlos Fire loss. When fire and water damage restoration involves tearing out ceilings and walls, this is common practice. If your home or office suffers fire damage or water damage, call SERVPRO of Belmont/San Carlos 24/7 at (650) 591-4137. We are always ready to help.

Owning and maintaining a substantial inventory of restorative drying equipment is one of the requirements for being operating a successful water damage restoration company.We have to be equipped and ready for the occasional large property emergency.

SERVPRO has an group of Extreme Team Franchises, also known as the Disaster Recovery Team who have a vast amount of experience in producing large commercial projects. We are a part of this team and have experience in completing large property disaster cleanup projects.

Cleanair Image Inc., DBA SERVPRO of Belmont/ San Carlos is proud to have earned the SERVPRO CEO Award.

The award was presented to us for educational work we perform in the community, including building a "demo room" where we are able to cause water and smoke damage to portions of walls and floors and then demonstrate the various cleaning procedures we use to reverse the damage... to make it "like it never even happened."

Our original demo room was located in our San Leandro facility. Recently it has been moved (and expanded) in Stockton. The room is used during continuing education classes and workshops for the real estate and insurance communities.

When water floods basements and crawl spaces the water can enter the heat and air conditioning air ducts that run under the floor. Moisture inside the air supply ducts can become a breeding ground for mold and bacteria as has the one in our photo. SERVPRO always checks the conditions of HVAC ducting during our inspections.

The Fungus Kingdom includes mushrooms, yeast, dry-rot  and mold. Molds are often addresses microbials. (Micro means small, bial means short-lived bacterium.) By contrast a mushroom is a macro (large) mold. Yes, many fungus are edible.

Molds are found everywhere on the planet, in hot deserts, in arctic regions, forests and jungles. While molds have adapted to a wide variety of environments, the majority of molds thrive in 60 to 90 degrees, the temperature range humans are accustomed to living in.

Further more, molds are a natural part of life on our planet. Their spores can be found floating in the air, both outdoors and indoors.

Good news... most molds are harmless. More good news, we have effective ways to remove and reduce the mold from your indoor environment. Call SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos at 650-591-4137.

Our technicians are working at the fresh water rinse station of our Ultrasonic cleaning system. Items that are able to be wet cleaned are placed into a pre-soak tank, then transferred to an ultrasonic chamber where sonic (sound) waves will vibrate the soils (soot, grease, grime( from the item. Then the cleaned items are rinsed and moved into a drying oven. The machine is effective at rapidly removing difficult soil from delicate items such as ceramic ornaments, glassware and others.

Water and fire can damage documents. Our team of specialists may be able to save the important content of damaged documents. We can't always make them look "pretty" again, but salvaging the  valuable"content" can be important.

The SERVPRO National Storm Team certainly gets around. The team has trailer loads of equipment staged in a shopping center parking lot in Colorado to address a major property disaster at that mall.

SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos provides emergency board-up services for door and windows at commercial and residential property disaster location. We are even able to paint window board ups to be compliant with city codes if required.

SERVPRO water cleanup technicians have a term for the way gypsum board is cut and removed from a structure. They call it, "Flood cuts" and it describes the straight line that is made so that the damaged sheetrock is removed cleanly to facilitate the easy insertion of replacement sheetrock. The drywall installers appreciate the effort.

Ground water will carry silt with it as it flows through or under structures. The apartment building in the photo has a small water course that runs under a corner of the building. The building also has a sump pump as a backup to handle heavy flows of water. We are flushing out the sump pump so it is in tip top condition and ready to do its job.

It is possible to pump HEPA filtered air into damp wall cavities to dry the interior space. This means that we do not have to remove large sections of gypsum board. The least amount of demolition reduces the overall cost of the mitigation and restoration project. It also will shorten the drying and repair cycle time. This too saves money by reducing the interruption to a business or resident that is affected by property damage.

The inner wall drying system can get the walls dry from the inside and all that is required when the wall is dry to complete the job is a simple plaster and paint repair.

A mold infested beam in a school classroom was cleaned, sanded and stained. It was made to look as good or better than new. All of this was done over a weekend so class time was not interrupted. 

Removing soot from a ceiling may look easy, but unless you use the right cleaning agents and techniques you can "set" the soot. It is important to use a professional service and cleaning products to solve the problem.

SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos provides drying, cleaning, deodorizing and mold removal services for auto dealers and for a major automobile brand. Sometimes, even new cars get damp and require  cleanup services. We travel around Northern California providing this service. 

When water flows through a structure it often ruins portions of sheetrock (drywall). When the sections of damaged material has to be removed we always make straight cuts in two foot increments so it is easy for the construction team to perform the replacement.

El Nino rain from this past winter have caused grasses and forests to grow. This could be a huge fire danger year with plenty of fuel for fire.

SERVPRO is ready to help cleanup smoke and soot fallout from wildfires that could damage houses and structures.

Close up pictures of microscopic mold are impressive, even pretty... but some molds can be toxic and pose health threats to certain people. When mold is growing indoors it needs to be removed. Many time this can be done by the occupant. When professional help is required call SERVPRO at: 650-589-7045

SERVPRO is sending skilled technicians who are part of the nation Storm Response Team to Oklahoma. Over the past number of years, SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos has sent talented and experienced crew members to many events across America. 

A thermal fogging machine is an important tools used in removing smoke odor from fire damaged buildings. An odor neutralizing treatment is heated and becomes a "smoke vapor" that is able to penetrate everywhere that the smoke and soot from the fire went.  

Loaded and ready for property damage cleanup action locally or anywhere in the country. These large trailers contain hundreds of pieces of drying equipment, cleaning supplies and other materials for large restoration jobs.

This is our storage crib for power tools, and our tool repair shop for servicing our drying equipment. Keeping our equipment in good working order is just another way we are ready to serve our clients.

This photo shows a SERVPRO truck and power generation parked by a printing company in Washington D.C. We were pleased to have been able to travel on storm duty to participate in cleanup in our nation's capitol.

SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos (Cleanair Image, Inc.) has been one of SERVPRO Industry's  top one hundred franchises (out of 1,700) for the last seven years. We are proud of our commitment to be big enough to serve our clients, but small enough to care.

Cleaning a slate and tile floor often requires the use of a "floor machine" and hand cleaning techniques followed by applying a sealer coat and floor finish. Detail work like this brings the best results... happy customers.

Hard to believe this was once a sewage spill cleanup job. After the dirty water extraction, cleaning process and the polishing this floor is better than before.It was like brand new.

Note the temporary support beam being used to prop up a wall that was damaged by a mudslide in Burlingame.... making a location safe while we work is just pat of what we do.

A small electrical fire caused soot soiling to a large oil painting. SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos provided expert cleanup using natural cleaning agents such as potatoes... not joking. We have cleaned a numerous oil painting over the last several years.

Our technician, Onofra is seen hard a t work cleaning contents to remove soot contamination requires skill and attention to detail. We use a combination of automated equipment and good old fashion hand labor.

A thirty-five year old bathroom was transformed by SERVPRO's construction team. A water damaged vanity room was gutted and rebuilt. It feels great to be able to repair damage and make it better than before.

SERVPRO technicians wear a variety of safety gear (personal protective equipment-PPE) to keep them safe from bacterial, toxic chemicals and microbial contamination. These yellow suites are moisture proof rubber and are safety yellow colored... they are for working on sewage cleanup and other wet spills and hazardous situations. Note, our technician pictured is also wearing a mask with filter cartridges... this job scene was a sewage spill with mold contamination! 

We maintain a fleet of service vehicles that are within a size range to be able to service the Peninsula hills in San Carlos and Belmont. "There's little point in trying to get a semi tractor and 53 foot trailer into the hills", said Robert Marshall SERVPRO Fleet and Facilities Manager.

During a large commercial water damage drying event, we spotted books and paper materials that were damp. We were able to set up an emergency drying proceedure as we dried the structure... as a bonus for the customer. Costs were controlled and damage was kept to a minimum. 

Recently our SERVPRO of Belmont/San Carlo team worked in Fremont, California to cleanup the damage caused by a large four-bedroom house that was turned into a "grow house". Pot farmers had flooded this house and caused mold damage throughout. This plant was just one of several hundred seized by the authorities as evidence.

SERVPRO is proud to offer an Emergency Ready Plan (ERP) that is cloud based and can be accessed on a smart phone. This application allows a company owner, building manager of facility manager to have helpful information at their finger tips during an emergency propertry damage event.

SERVPRO of Belmont / San Carlos provided cleaning services to help restore and maintain the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet docked in Alameda at the former “Naval Station, Alameda”. The team of SERVPRO volunteers, working hard is Manny Gomez, performed power washing of the hangar deck. The team also dusted many of the interior rooms including operational equipment that are on display to the visitors to this Museum.

Chris Peterson, our Business Development and Customer Service Representative participated in a recent SERVPRO e-Learning opportunity. From initial training to regular online webinars, continuing education is a priority for our experienced team. The goal is to keep up to speed on industry standards and provide our customers the most professional residential and commercial restoration options available. Chris is a member of The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) and is active with commercial facilities managers in San Mateo and San Francisco Counties. To find out how to prepare your commercial property for a quick recovery when unexpected water, mold or fire damage occurs, Call Chris at 650-591-4137.

Partner, Roy Drake and our Production Operations Manager, flew back to Nashville to bring two new vehicles filled with restorative drying equipment back to our SERVPRO of Belmont/San Carlos franchise in time to service potential El Nino storm damage in Belmont, San Carlos, and Redwood City. Along the route they endured a winter storm in Nebraska, but made it safely home in time to press the vehicles into use in our local service areas that also include Pacifica and Half Moon Bay. Flood and storm damage require specialized restoration techniques and equipment. Our restoration process puts an emphasis on scientific drying techniques, progress monitoring and documentation. We guarantee results. (650) 591-4137