Newton Center, MA Massachusetts 02459
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready 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 happiness is our #1 priority. We proudly provide great response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked and also swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service expert will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the area, floor, and hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum hose into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outdoors. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Generally they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly 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 tiny portion of the vinyl sheeting 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, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We give quick as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, sometimes 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the air movement through 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 hazardous for your health, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers decreased air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is incredibly combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best as well as most reliable way to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney and your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least once a year in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
Just how frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of exactly how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places must be inspected annually. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and various other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned yearly to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more residue and creosote, they need to be swept much more regularly. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.