Repairing homes after fires can be a burning topic

Once the fire brigade intervenes, a house can be left with water as well as smoke damage, says <B>Caroline Delaney.</b>

All housefires are bad but a grease fire — such as when someone leaves a pan on and it blazes up — is definitely the worst, says disaster restoration expert Keith Spencer.

He works with Rainbow International, a restoration and cleaning company with bases through the world and which has had an Irish presence in Kinsale, Co Cork, since 2004.