
Tavares, FL Florida 32778
When you need 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 detailed chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries as well as fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected as well as swept each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and also are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner tube into the fireplace, and will after that tape and seal the fireplace. They'll attach extension 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 on.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Usually they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very carefully cleaning all the surfaces. 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 plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete range of services including sweeping. We provide rapid and also reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers lessened air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It might cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and most reliable method to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and your house. We advise 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 frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of how often you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places should be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and other concerns can develop which can allow carbon monoxide gas to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned yearly to keep soot from developing.
Since 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 within.