
Manteca, CA California 95336
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We offer a wide 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 thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries and fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined as well as swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will do a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning professional will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the space, floor, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum tube into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension tubes 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.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We offer quick and also dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, in some cases requiring 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 very hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is very heavy, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it places your house in danger of fires.
Creosote build up causes lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and also most effective way to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney as well as your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of once a year in order to avoid fires and harmful build up.
How often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how often you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to prevent residue from accumulating.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves develop even 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.