
Mabelvale, AR Arkansas 72103
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined as well as swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner hose into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Usually they will start at the top of the chimney and work downward, thoroughly cleaning all the surface areas. Your chimney sweep will clean the flue, the damper, the smoke chamber, the smoke shelf, and the firebox.
They will then peel back a tiny area of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our expert chimney experts provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We provide quick and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, occasionally requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it puts your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your residence 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 gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and also most reliable means to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of once a year in order to protect against fires and poisonous build up.
Just how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned yearly to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create more residue and creosote, they need to be swept much more frequently. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.