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Fire, water and mold damage restoration in Romeoville, IL

Romeoville homeowners and businesses can call ServiceMaster Restoration Services 24/7 for fire and smoke cleanup, water extraction and drying, mold remediation, biohazard cleanup and cleaning. Census figures show nearly 40% of Romeoville's homes went up between 2000 and 2009, while about a fifth date from the 1960s and 1970s.

Romeoville's housing: a 1960s core and a 2000s boom

Few suburbs show a sharper split. The ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates put Romeoville's median year built at 1999, yet 28.7% of its homes were built before 1980. The 1980s barely register. In practice, a restoration job here is usually one of two very different houses: a ranch or raised ranch from the 1960s or 1970s, or a two-story with a poured basement from the 2000s.

Those 2000s homes are now about two decades old. Original water heaters, washing machine hoses and sump pumps don't last forever, so in this part of town supply-line and appliance leaks tend to show up alongside storm-related basement water.

Raised ranches and the lower-level family room

A raised ranch puts bedrooms or a family room half a level below grade. When a fire is put out upstairs, water from hoses runs down through floors and stairwells into that lower level, so fire jobs in these homes are often water jobs too.

What should you do in the first hour after a house fire?

1. Wait for the all-clear. Ready.gov advises checking with the fire department to make sure your residence is safe to enter, because floors, ceilings and wiring can be weakened even when flames are out.
2. Leave the utilities alone. Don't try to reconnect gas or electricity yourself. The utility or fire department decides when that is safe.
3. Find a place to stay. If the home isn't livable, the Red Cross and other relief services can help with temporary housing, food and medicine.
4. Start an inventory and keep receipts. Ready.gov recommends listing damaged property and saving receipts for anything you spend because of the fire, such as hotels, meals and clothing.
5. Keep soot where it is. Wiping or vacuuming soot with household tools tends to smear it into paint and fabric. Open windows for air if it's safe, and leave cleaning to people with the right equipment.

Ready.gov's home fire guidance covers the full list, including notifying your mortgage company.

Older Romeoville homes: lead paint and asbestos

About 3,950 Romeoville housing units were built before 1980, according to the same Census table. The EPA says that if your home was built before 1978, it is more likely to have lead-based paint, the year the federal government banned it for residential use. Smoke and water cleanup often means sanding, scraping or removing painted trim and drywall, so lead-safe work practices apply.

The Illinois EPA notes that asbestos was commonly used in home building materials before the mid-1970s and occasionally until the late 1980s. Fire can damage old floor tile, duct wrap and ceiling texture, and damaged material is exactly when testing matters. The agency's advice is to have suspect materials inspected before renovation or demolition work begins.

Smoke residue travels farther than the fire

Smoke follows air currents through return ducts, attic bypasses and closet gaps. Rooms that never saw flames can still carry a film of soot and a lingering odor that needs cleaning, not just airing out.

Romeoville's rivers, canals and floodplain

Water is part of Romeoville's geography. The Village's own East Side Plan describes the Des Plaines River flowing along the western edge of the East Side, with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the I&M Canal running north-south nearby. The same plan states that floodplains are rather extensive on the East Side, formed by local wetlands, creeks, the river and the two canals.

Away from the river corridor, the bigger risk is the storm itself. Chicago-area summers bring heavy thunderstorms, and winters swing between hard freezes and thaws. The National Weather Service Chicago office is the forecast office for Romeoville, and signing up for alerts gives you time to check the sump pump and move valuables before the rain arrives. The Village's stormwater plan also lists inspecting flood-prone areas before heavy storms as a Public Works procedure.

How we help Romeoville property owners

Fire is usually the most complicated loss. Our fire damage restoration work in Romeoville includes soot removal, deodorization and drying out firefighting water, and the fire damage restoration hub walks through each phase.

When a supply line bursts or the basement takes on water, water damage restoration for Romeoville homes and businesses handles extraction and structural drying.

Musty smells after a leak deserve a closer look, and mold remediation in Romeoville pairs containment with fixing the moisture source. For background, see our mold remediation overview.

Discreet biohazard and trauma cleanup in Romeoville is available for situations no family should handle alone.

Once repairs are done, cleaning services for Romeoville properties get rooms ready to live or work in again.

Cooking is the leading cause of home fires

The U.S. Fire Administration calls cooking, by far, the leading cause of home fires. A small stovetop flare-up can still coat cabinets and ceilings with greasy residue, which is cleaned differently from the dry soot of a paper or wood fire.

Claims, prevention and neighboring towns

Insurers generally treat a sudden fire very differently from gradual damage, and every policy reads differently. Our insurance claim assistance covers documentation and working with your adjuster, while coverage decisions stay with your insurer. Two guides worth bookmarking are what to do after a kitchen fire and how to get smoke smell out of a house.

From our Lisle headquarters we also work across the area, including Bolingbrook, Lockport and Lemont. You can send us a message to schedule a visit.

Fire, water or mold damage in Romeoville? Call (630) 241-1111, any hour of the day.