Smoky piano

[Marcel Carey]

I've had experience with this kind of damage and have talked with Dave
Swartz. You can also find usefull information on the internet. Try
doing a google search with smoke+fire and you should get to
interesting sites. The work you will have to do will depend on what
kind of damage was done. This depends on the intensity of the fire,
materials that burned and what was used to put the fire out. Look
inside the piano (I suppose this is an upright), using a whithe cotton
cloth try to find out if you have residue on the sides (this will tell
if you had pressurized sooth versus deposit sooth). Smoke smell is the
smell of uncompleted combustioned materials that have attached
themselves to the cabinet.

Now for treatment, the only way to get rid of the smell permanently is
to thermo-fogging the piano with action with specific products to seal
the uncompleted chemical reaction in the sooth particules. First
vacuum and then clean all cabinet parts accessable with Chem Spec
products (cream wood restore, 909 contereactant (unsmoke). Just be
reminded that sooth is toxic. You should be waring glove and mask
while you proceed. Then I would suggest you find a disaster expert in
the phone book. Be aware that ozone treatment will create problems for
plastics (some modern glues) and can cause premature rust on metal as
well. Just ask them to fumigate the piano with 909 and then unsmoke.
They will have to tent the piano and go away from the room while they
do it. These products are worst than the smoke itself. Thermo-fogging
is the only thing that will go all over between action parts and felts
that will stop the unfinished chemical reaction that cause odor.

I've treated 25 pianos in a school last year and there isn't a trace
of smell left to this day.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC



> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Joseph Garrett
> Sent: 11 décembre, 2003 21:40
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Smoky piano
>
>
> Bill quarried: "What is normally done for smoke oder?"
>
> Bill,
> Contact James Schmitt, Portland Chapter, he's the expert on
> this sort of
> thing.
> Best Regards,
> Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> Captain, Tool Police
> Squares Are I
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