
Pacific Palisades, CA California 90272
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We provide 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 comprehensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected and swept yearly in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the space, floor, as well as hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner tube into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, 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, carefully brushing all the surfaces. 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 portion of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid and dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, 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 becomes extremely hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really hefty, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers reduced air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also 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 might trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most harmful thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
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 and your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least yearly in order to prevent fires and hazardous build up.
Just how often a chimney should be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to enter the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to keep residue from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves create more soot and creosote, they need to be swept much more often. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.