
Natick, MA Massachusetts 01760
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our #1 priority. We happily provide fast response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries and also fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined and swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the area, floor, as well as hearth. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, putting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and seal the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Usually 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 sheeting and use a variety 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 experts supply a complete range of services including sweeping. We provide quick and reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really hefty, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up creates decreased air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also 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 problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and also most effective method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and also your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least yearly in order to avoid fires and harmful build up.
How frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places should be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to keep residue from developing.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more residue and creosote, they need to be swept more often. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.