
Flagstaff, AZ Arizona 86001
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our main priority. We proudly provide fast response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will certainly do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined and swept every year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the space, flooring, as well as hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe right into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal the fireplace. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Typically they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly 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 then peel back a small portion of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, occasionally requiring 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 very hot. Hard creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. When 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 number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it puts your residence in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up triggers diminished air flow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It might trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the very best as well as most effective means to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least yearly in order to prevent fires and hazardous build up.
Just how often a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and various other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to prevent soot from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves develop more soot and creosote, they should be swept more frequently. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.