
Lewisville, NC North Carolina 27023
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 help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will certainly do a complete chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create 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 examined and also swept once a year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will do a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and 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 specialist will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the area, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner tube into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Typically they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very 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. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide rapid and dependable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult 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 comes to be very hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is really 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 couple of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates reduced air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is toxic. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful thing about creosote is that it is exceptionally flammable. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best and also most effective method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and also your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least annually in order to avoid fires and harmful build up.
How often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places must be examined yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and various other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned yearly to prevent residue from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more residue and creosote, they must be swept a lot more frequently. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.