
Danbury, CT Connecticut 06810
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! We offer a wide 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 top priority. We proudly offer great response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined and also swept annually in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning specialist will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, inserting an industrial vacuum hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Normally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly brushing 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 tiny portion of the plastic sheeting and use a variety 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 specialists supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer quick and reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it ends up being tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, in some cases 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes very hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it places your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers diminished air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It might trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and also most effective method to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your residence. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of once a year in order to avoid fires and harmful build up.
How frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to enter the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep residue from developing.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves create more soot and creosote, they must be swept a lot more frequently. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.