Elbow grease alone would not clean up one per cent of the jobs that come in so we have invested heavily in specialist equipment from all over the world to help do some of the more tricky bits of work.




Our custom made robot camera


We made this little beauty ourselves and it has paid for itself time and time again. Basically, it is a video camera and light mounted on a little buggy. We control it using a joystick and record the results on a video recorder. It lets us look in tiny spaces like air conditioning ducts for evidence of soot or sewage depending on the disaster. We can then go straight to the problem rather than dismantling the whole thing.




This is not ordinary plastic. It is a revolutionary system we imported from the US that we use instead of tarpaulins. We stretch a layer of PVC as tight as a drum over a plastic skeleton to create a structure that is actually stronger than steel. We used this to great effect after the Docklands bomb went off. Our sealed roofs far outlasted the flimsy tarpaulins other companies put up.



Shrink wrap - just like
in the kitchen




Cleaning electronics with bicarb


This one is a bit odd. All cooks will know what bicarbonate of soda does to cakes. Some of you will know what it is like in toothpaste. But you will never have thought what it is like when it is blasted out under high pressure. It is a very effective cleaner - that's what.



Not many people know that soot is extremely corrosive. It can destroy computer hard drives in days and causes metal to rust. This thermal fog machine covers everything in a thin layer of a substance that stops soot dead in its tracks. We use it after we have cleaned everything up.


Thermal fogging to stop corrosion of electrical equipment after a fire.