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Eco-Strip customer Lisa Rock and her Speedheater™ Cobra survived a restorer’s worst nightmare: a house fire. Her experience is quite a story:
“Three months ago I lost my historic home to a fire. (Lisa was restoring it to be a large B & B.) The fire started in a vacant home next to mine. My home was deemed a total loss and I was told not to try to salvage anything. It wouldn’t be any good. After all, there were 3 fire truck snorkels throwing water on my home with hundreds of thousands of gallons of water damaging and drenching everything that wasn’t already burned. Well, I almost believed the professionals, but my preservation side of me had to try to salvage what I could.
So, the process began. I tried to go in and get things but when it came to the basement, it was over 4 feet deep in water and remained that way for a couple of days. Therefore, I focused on other areas of the home first. Mind you, it was winter. Almost everything in the home became frozen in place. I had to wait for the weather to warm up to begin doing salvage. It was two and a half months before I got back to the basement.
While going through the fire damaged debris, I ran across my Speedheater Cobra™. My heart sank. It’s one of my favorite tools. I looked at it thinking it’s no good but something kept telling me to clean it up and try it. After a thorough cleaning and letting it dry really well, I fired it up. Low and behold, it popped and crackled just a bit and next thing, it was working like brand new.
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Since then my dear friend, Brenda Reilly, from Museum Hill Historic District has been using it almost daily, and it’s working perfectly.
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The quality and durability of this tool is above and beyond. Who would have thought a tool that was completely submerged under water for days, frozen in place and covered with debris and blown-in insulation would clean up and work perfectly again? It gets a 5 star plus rating from me. I can’t be more pleased and proud to own a Cobra Speedheater™.”
Lisa Rock
Remax Professionals and Historic Property Specialist
St Joseph, MO