
San Gabriel, CA California 91776
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our #1 priority. We happily offer great response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will certainly do a complete chimney cleaning to remove any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked and also swept yearly in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Typically they will begin at the top of the chimney and work downward, very carefully cleaning 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 tiny area of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer fast and reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy 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 remove, occasionally 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a number of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health and wellness, and it puts your residence in danger of fires.
Creosote build up creates reduced air flow and this can allow 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 cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and also most effective method to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney as well as your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at the very least once a year in order to avoid fires and toxic build up.
How frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to keep soot from accumulating.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they must be swept much more regularly. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.