
Plymouth, MI Michigan 48170
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We offer 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 offer rapid response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will certainly do a thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked and swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will do a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective 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 home by spreading out tarps over the area, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner tube right into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal the fire place. They'll attach 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 on.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Usually they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully 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 area of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our expert chimney experts provide a full range of services including sweeping. We provide fast and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance 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 ends up being tar-like, and is harder to remove, in some cases needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really hefty, it limits the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of different ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health, and it places your residence in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up creates lessened air flow and this can permit carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and most effective way to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney and also your residence. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at the very least yearly in order to avoid 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 ought to be inspected yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and various other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter the house.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned annually to keep soot from building up.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more soot and creosote, they should be swept a lot more often. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.