
Camp Lejeune, NC North Carolina 28547
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, residue, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected and also swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and also are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fireplace, and will after that tape and seal the fireplace. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Typically they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly 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 after that peel back a little area of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our expert chimney specialists provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide rapid as well as dependable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it ends up being tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, in some cases 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 extremely hot. Hard creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it puts your house in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up triggers lessened air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide to build up inside your house 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 gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is incredibly combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best as well as most effective way to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least once a year in order to avoid fires and poisonous build up.
How often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide gas to get into the home.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned yearly to prevent residue from accumulating.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves develop 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.