Green Cove Springs, FL Florida 32043
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a ring and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our main priority. We proudly provide great response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will certainly do a complete chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, residue, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected as well as swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the space, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner hose into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Typically they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, carefully 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 area of the vinyl sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our expert chimney specialists provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes 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 solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is exceptionally flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and most effective method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least once a year in order to avoid fires and poisonous build up.
Exactly how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places should be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to get into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to keep residue from building up.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more residue and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.