
Loxahatchee, FL Florida 33470
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply 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 remove any type of deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected and swept once a year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will carry out a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning specialist will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner tube right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal the fireplace. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Generally they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 small area of the vinyl sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts provide a full range of services including sweeping. We give fast and dependable 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 builds up much more, it ends up being tar-like, and is harder 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 becomes very hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote build up triggers reduced air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous feature of creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best and also most effective way to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and also your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least yearly in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to keep soot from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves produce more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept more regularly. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.