
South Dartmouth, MA Massachusetts 02748
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined as well as swept annually in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, putting an industrial vacuum pipe right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Usually they will start on top of the smokeshaft 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 then peel back a little portion of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We provide fast and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, 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 begin to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very hefty, it limits the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a number of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health and wellness, and it places your house at risk of fires.
Creosote build up creates diminished 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 and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is toxic. It might trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and also most effective way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney as well as your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of once a year in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
Just how frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places need to be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to prevent residue from accumulating.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they need to be swept much more regularly. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.