
Juneau, AK Alaska 99801
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to remove any type of deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined and swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will carry out a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, and hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum hose pipe right into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal the fireplace. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously brushing all the surfaces. Your chimney sweep will clean the flue, the damper, the smoke chamber, the smoke shelf, and the firebox.
They will after that peel back a tiny portion of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer quick and reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, occasionally needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health and wellness, and it places your house in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers decreased air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and most effective method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of annually in order to avoid fires and toxic build up.
Just how often a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces should be inspected every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to keep soot from building up.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves create more residue and creosote, they need to be swept much more regularly. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.