
Mobile, AL Alabama 36695
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a ring and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our main priority. We proudly provide rapid response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a thorough chimney cleaning to remove any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked and also swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, floor, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, putting an industrial vacuum tube into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Generally they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, thoroughly cleaning 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 little portion of the vinyl sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer quick and trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it ends up being tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, occasionally needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes diminished airflow and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It might cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and most effective means to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and also your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at the very least yearly in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
How often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces must be examined annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter the home.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned yearly to keep soot from accumulating.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept more often. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.