
Dover, FL Florida 33527
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined and also swept yearly in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fireplace, and will after that tape and seal the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Typically they will begin at the top of the chimney and work downward, very carefully 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 area of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We give quick and reputable 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 more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, sometimes needing 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 really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really heavy, it limits the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow 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 it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous feature of creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best as well as most reliable way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least annually in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
Just how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places need to be inspected annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to keep residue from developing.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create more residue and creosote, they should be swept more often. A good general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.