Removing soot with steam

3 Minutes

Has there been a fire at your property? Or are you working as a cleaning service to remove soot after fire damage? Then a TCE steam cleaner is the solution for thorough, safe, and efficient cleaning.

Why choose a steam cleaner for soot removal?

When you choose a steam cleaner with a vacuum function, such as a steam vacuum cleaner or a steam extraction vacuum cleaner, both dirt and moisture are immediately extracted. This is ideal because soot is often located on high or hard-to-reach surfaces such as ceilings or walls. By preventing wet soot from dripping down, you save time and avoid additional contamination. With a steam cleaner equipped with suction, you can remove soot, neutralize odors, disinfect, and vacuum dry in one single movement.

What exactly is soot?

Soot is created during the incomplete combustion of carbon-based materials such as wood, oil, or plastic. The fine particles quickly attach themselves to surfaces and are difficult to remove using traditional cleaning methods. Soot may also contain harmful substances and cause a penetrating odor. That is why it is important to remove soot safely and thoroughly, and steam is perfectly suited for this task.

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Which TCE steam cleaner is best for removing soot?

To remove soot, we recommend working with a TCE steam cleaner with an integrated vacuum function, such as the TCE M8 steam vacuum cleaner or, for larger surfaces, the TCE C50 steam extraction vacuum cleaner.

Both machines combine powerful steam pressure with strong suction power, allowing dirt and moisture to be removed immediately. The difference lies mainly in size. The M8 is compact, maneuverable, and ideal for smaller spaces. The M8 is semi-professional and suitable for both household and commercial use. The C50 is larger and offers greater capacity and continuity for larger cleaning projects.

By using hot, dry steam, soot is not only loosened, but odors are also neutralized and surfaces are disinfected immediately, without the need for chemical products.

Neutralizing odors with ozone

After steam cleaning, the surface itself will no longer emit odors. However, the room itself, such as a kitchen or living room, may still contain strong smoke or fire odors. In that case, the TCE ozone generator can be used for deep odor neutralization.

Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent that breaks down odor-causing molecules in the air instead of masking them. The Clean Experience offers various ozone devices that allow spaces to become odor-free down to the smallest details. These ozone generators are ideal for professional cleaning applications in homes, cars, hotels, or commercial buildings exposed to smoke or fire damage.

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What should you do after the soot has been removed?

After cleaning, surfaces do not need additional treatment with a cloth or cleaning product. Steam cleans deeper than traditional methods and leaves no residue behind. Once you are finished, you can simply empty and rinse the dirty water tank. The machine is immediately ready for use again—ideal when switching quickly between different cleaning tasks.

A TCE steam cleaner is also highly versatile: floors, walls, windows, kitchens, sanitary areas, ovens, and much more. Do you own a cleaning company? Then you can offer your customers additional services such as stain removal, odor removal, mold cleaning, and disinfection, all with a single machine.

Interested in a TCE steam cleaner?

Great to hear you are interested! Our team of TCE steam specialists is happy to help you make the right choice. During a no-obligation demonstration, we will show you exactly how our steam cleaners work and which machine best suits your situation.

During the demo, you can try the machine yourself: discover what it is like to steam floors, clean windows, or even tackle a heavily soiled oven using steam. This way, you can experience the power of TCE steam cleaners for yourself.

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References

"Melt, suck it up and be done!"

De Texelse Chocolatier

“The steam cleaner is easy to use and easily removes chocolate from the floor. With a few strokes it is clean and dry, because it works with steam the chocolate is melted in no time and you can easily vacuum it with the steam extraction vacuum cleaner. It also comes with handy brushes for the wheels of the workbenches, for example, so you clean these easily too.”

"Our bakery is visibly and tangibly cleaner than before"

Bakery Willemsen, Borne

Dennis Willemsen

“Our bakery is visibly and palpably cleaner than before we used The Clean Experience’s machine. We were looking for a machine that could effortlessly clean the oven, as well as the plastic ceiling of our bakery. Both rather tricky jobs, because it’s hard to reach.”

"Really clean in half the time!"

Luigi’s Ice cream parlor

Astrid Miltenburg

“We bought the TCE steam vacuum cleaner M8 Athena with electric brush initially for hygienic cleaning of the store floor of our ice cream parlor. It steams, scrubs, vacuums and pulls the floor really clean and almost completely dry. But with all the included attachments we now do more than just the floor. Our stainless steel worktops and ice cream display case also become flawlessly clean and shine like new. Awkward spots are no problem at all. We clean the windows in half the time than before, with better results. We can no longer do without it, because with this steam vacuum cleaner we work cleaner, more efficiently and with a lot of pleasure!”

 

"Steam beats water!"

Steam Up, Eindhoven

Ralf Frickel

“The TCE M8 from The Clean Experience bv, meets our needs because it is a professional but handy machine. A favorite accessory is the electric scrub-shampooing steam brush. It works easily on a rechargeable battery and the result never ceases to positively amaze me. Last but not least, steam is also capable of removing up to 99.99 percent of germs and bacteria from a wide variety of surfaces. Still, nice to know that not only does it look clean, but it really is clean.”