
La Puente, CA California 91744
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We offer 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 detailed chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and also fires annually. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked and also swept annually in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the space, floor, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum hose pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Normally 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 then peel back a small area of the vinyl sheeting and use a range 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 offer a full range of services including sweeping. We provide rapid and dependable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, sometimes requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened air flow and this can permit carbon monoxide to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is toxic. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the best and also most effective way to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney as well as your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least once a year in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces must be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to get into the home.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep soot from building up.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept a lot more often. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.