
Roslyn, NY New York 11576
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We offer a wide 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 thorough chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney checked as well as swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will perform a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the area, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, putting an commercial vacuum tube right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Usually they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete variety of services including sweeping. We provide rapid as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, in some cases 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health and wellness, and it places your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote build up creates decreased 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 and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, breathing problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most hazardous feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best as well as most reliable way to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least yearly in order to avoid fires and hazardous build up.
How frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of how often you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places must be inspected every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the house.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep residue from building up.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more regularly. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.