Puffback and Furnace Soot Cleanup in Glen Ellen, CA
A puffback is a delayed ignition in an oil fired furnace or boiler. Fuel accumulates in the chamber, ignites all at once, and the pressure pushes oily soot out through the ductwork into every room the system serves. There is often no fire and no fire department, which is exactly why it gets treated as a cleaning problem when it is a restoration problem.
Puffback soot is oily and fine. It smears under a cloth, it clings to vertical surfaces, and it has already travelled everywhere the air handler reaches by the time anyone notices. Wiping it spreads it.
Emberline Restoration handles puffbacks across Glen Ellen, CA starting with the mechanical system, because cleaning the rooms while the ductwork is still loaded means doing it twice. Ducts, plenum, blower and coil come first. Then surfaces, contents and any soft goods in the affected zones.
The furnace itself needs a technician before it runs again. A unit that puffed back once will do it again, and the cause is usually a clogged nozzle, poor draft or delayed ignition.
Call Emberline Restoration at (888) 773-0161.
