
Tulare, CA California 93274
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We offer a full 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 extensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries as well as fires annually. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked as well as swept each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service expert will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and also are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up 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, and hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe right into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Generally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft 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 after that peel back a little area of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We give quick and also dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, occasionally requiring 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 comes to be very hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote build up triggers diminished air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best as well as most effective means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and also your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at the very least once a year in order to avoid fires and poisonous build up.
How frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be inspected yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to keep residue from building up.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves develop more residue and creosote, they must be swept more regularly. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.