
Ventura, CA California 93003
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our main priority. We happily provide great response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to get rid of any 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 advises having your chimney examined and also swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the area, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, placing an industrial vacuum hose into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal the fireplace. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Usually they will start at the top of the chimney and work downward, 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 portion of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide fast and reputable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, occasionally needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers lessened airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best as well as most reliable means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney as well as your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of once a year in order to prevent fires and poisonous build up.
Exactly how often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces should be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to enter the house.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from accumulating.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept a lot more often. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.