
Roanoke Rapids, NC North Carolina 27870
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We provide a wide 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 thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, residue, creosote, as well as obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and fires every year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected as well as swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, inserting an industrial vacuum tube into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start on 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 then 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 plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We provide rapid and also trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, occasionally needing 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 and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it places your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes decreased air flow and this can permit carbon monoxide to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and also most reliable means to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney and your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of annually in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
Just how often a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places ought to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to enter the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned yearly to keep soot from accumulating.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more residue and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.