
Flagstaff, AZ Arizona 86001
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our top priority. We happily offer rapid response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and also fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined and swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service expert will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not recommended. They will not remove 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 residence by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and also 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 then peel back a little area of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We provide fast as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote build up creates reduced air movement and this can permit 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 cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best as well as most reliable method to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and also your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of annually in order to avoid fires and toxic build up.
Just how frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to prevent residue from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they should be swept a lot more regularly. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.