
Belmont, NC North Carolina 28012
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply 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 remove any deposits, residue, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and also fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked and also swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service expert will do a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an industrial vacuum pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start at the top of the chimney and work downward, meticulously brushing all the surfaces. 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 area of the plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a full range of services including sweeping. We give fast and reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Hard creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it puts your residence in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers reduced air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide to develop inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best and most reliable means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney as well as your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of annually in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
Exactly how often a chimney should be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places must be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and various other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from developing.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce even more soot and creosote, they must be swept more often. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.