
San Marcos, CA California 92069
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A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and also fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected as well as swept every year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, as well as hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, meticulously cleaning 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 portion of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, in some cases 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the airflow 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 puts your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up causes reduced airflow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the best and also most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and also your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least once a year in order to protect against fires and poisonous build up.
How frequently 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 inspected on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and other issues can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to get into the house.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to prevent soot from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves develop more soot and creosote, they should be swept much more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.