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A chimney sweep will certainly do a detailed chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, residue, creosote, as well as obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, 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 recommends having your chimney examined and swept annually in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the space, flooring, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very 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 area of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete range of services including sweeping. We provide quick and reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to remove, occasionally needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and 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 begin to drip and melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is very hefty, it limits the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health, and it puts your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up causes lessened air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your house 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 result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the very best and also most reliable way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney as well as your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least yearly in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
Just how frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be checked annually. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the home.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned annually to prevent residue from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they ought to be swept much more regularly. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.