
Chalmette, LA Louisiana 70043
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our main priority. We happily provide rapid response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked and swept annually in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fireplace, and will then tape and seal the fire place. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Typically they will start on top of the chimney and work downward, 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 little portion of the vinyl sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We give quick as well as trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, occasionally needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health and wellness, and it puts your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote build up creates diminished air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It might trigger inflamed skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of annually in order to avoid fires and toxic build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be inspected on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and various other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to enter the home.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to keep residue from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves develop more residue and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.