
Ocoee, FL Florida 34761
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our top priority. We proudly provide fast response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and also fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney checked and also swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, placing an industrial vacuum hose right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start at the 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 plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The plastic sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and put away.
Our expert chimney specialists offer a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid and reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it ends up being tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, 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 comes to be very hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really hefty, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health, and it puts your residence in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers reduced airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your home 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 bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It might cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best and also most reliable means to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney as well as your residence. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least once a year in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places ought to be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned yearly to keep residue from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves develop even more residue and creosote, they should be swept more often. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.