
Lake Forest, CA California 92630
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries as well as fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney inspected and also swept once a year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, floor, and also fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, putting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fireplace, and will then tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Normally they will start at the 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 little area of the plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We offer quick and reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery 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, 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up causes decreased airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It might trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably 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 swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and most effective method to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and also your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least annually in order to avoid fires and poisonous build up.
Exactly how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other issues can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned annually to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they must be swept more regularly. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.