
Mabelvale, AR Arkansas 72103
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply 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 eliminate any deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined as well as swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not recommended. 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 home by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an industrial vacuum hose into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Generally they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully brushing all the surface areas. 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 variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We offer rapid as well as trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, in some cases needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it limits the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it puts your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates decreased air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the best as well as most reliable means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney as well as your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of annually in order to prevent fires and poisonous build up.
How frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be examined annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide gas to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned annually to prevent soot from developing.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves create even more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept much more frequently. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.