
Mount Holly, NJ New Jersey 08060
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! 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!
Customer happiness is our #1 priority. We happily provide fast response times and high quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will certainly do a extensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and also fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected as well as swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup 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 plastic sheets, inserting an industrial vacuum hose into the fireplace, and will then tape and seal the fire place. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Usually they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully 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 small portion of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We offer quick and trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it ends up being tar-like, and is harder to remove, sometimes requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really hefty, it restricts the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health and wellness, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers diminished airflow and this can allow carbon monoxide to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and also most effective method to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney and your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least yearly in order to protect against fires and harmful build up.
How frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be inspected annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the home.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned annually to keep residue from developing.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they should be swept more regularly. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.