
Weymouth, MA Massachusetts 02188
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A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to remove any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked as well as swept each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not recommended. 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 house by spreading tarps over the area, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum hose right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft 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 small portion of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a complete range of services including sweeping. We offer quick as well as trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts 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 harder to eliminate, sometimes requiring 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 extremely hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow 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 in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up triggers lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your residence 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 gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally flammable. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and also most effective means to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and your house. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of yearly in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
How frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep residue from building up.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.