
Gardnerville, NV Nevada 89460
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a ring and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and also fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked as well as swept every year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, and hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose right into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Usually they will start at the top of the chimney 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 small portion of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We provide fast and also reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, sometimes needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes very hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it puts your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes reduced air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas 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 cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It might trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the best as well as most effective way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least once a year in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
How often a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and various other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to keep soot from accumulating.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot 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.