
Lawrenceburg, IN Indiana 47025
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We offer 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 thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and also fires each year. 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 expert will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not suggested. 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 out tarps over the room, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Generally they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 then peel back a small portion of the vinyl sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and put away.
Our expert chimney experts provide a full range of services including sweeping. We offer fast and reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, in some cases needing 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 very 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 air movement 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 places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes decreased airflow and this can allow 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 trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It might cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is incredibly combustible. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best and also most reliable way to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and also your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at the very least annually in order to prevent fires and poisonous build up.
Just how frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces must be examined annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to keep residue from developing.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they must be swept much more regularly. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.