
Farmingville, NY New York 11738
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney inspected and swept once a year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will execute a total 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 start, a cleaning specialist will protect the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very carefully cleaning all the surface areas. Your chimney sweep will clean the flue, the damper, the smoke chamber, the smoke shelf, and the firebox.
They will then peel back a little portion of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid as well as trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, sometimes requiring 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a number of different ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health and wellness, and it places your residence in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most dangerous feature of creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and most effective way to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of yearly in order to avoid fires and harmful build up.
Just how frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned yearly to prevent residue from building up.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they must be swept much more regularly. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.