
Siler City, NC North Carolina 27344
When you need your chimney swept, we are here 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 detailed chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and also fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected and also swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and are not suggested. They will not get 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, as well as hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and seal the fireplace. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Generally they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very carefully brushing 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 sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We provide fast as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, sometimes requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really hefty, it restricts 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 home at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes reduced air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most dangerous feature of creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best as well as most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney and your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least annually in order to avoid fires and harmful build up.
How often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places need to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and various other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they need to 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 inside.