Post #223388 by aloha.taboo on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 2:06 PM

I used to work for my parents blind cleaning company, where we used an ultrasonic water-based cleaning method to clean the blinds. Quite often we did fire cleanup jobs and put all sorts of stuff in the machine. The fire restoration crews used to have us try to clean stuff before the insurance company paid for replacement.

The ultrasonic method would definitely work to get soot out of normally hard to clean places, as long as the object can fit in the tank. Look in the yellow pages under "blind cleaning - ultrasonic".

The restoration companies would also use a machine that literally destroy all the oxygen in a room in order to combat the smell.

I would look up ServPro to see if there's a franchise in your area, I did a lot of work with them.

Good luck!