
Keystone Heights, FL Florida 32656
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! We provide 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 complete chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, 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 recommends having your chimney checked and also swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and also are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, inserting an industrial vacuum pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and 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 outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Generally they will start on top of the smokeshaft 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 then peel back a tiny 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 relocated outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, occasionally 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 really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is really heavy, it limits the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it puts your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers lessened air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the best and also most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of once a year in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be inspected yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.