
Gulf Breeze, FL Florida 32563
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our main priority. We happily provide fast response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, soot, creosote, as well as obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries as well as fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney inspected and swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the space, flooring, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum hose pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and seal the fireplace. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Normally they will begin on 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 then peel back a little portion of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We provide fast as well as dependable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which forms 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 comes to be tar-like, and is harder to remove, 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 becomes very hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates diminished air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best as well as most reliable means to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and also your house. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least once a year in order to avoid fires and toxic build up.
How frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places ought to be inspected annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and various other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to keep residue from developing.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even 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.