
Kenton, OH Ohio 43326
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We offer 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 complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries and fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined and swept annually in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will carry out a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and also are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal the fireplace. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Usually they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, 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 after that peel back a small area of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide fast and also reliable 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 becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, occasionally 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 becomes really hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a number of various ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health and wellness, and it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes reduced air movement and this can permit carbon monoxide to build up inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and most effective means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at the very least yearly in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
Just how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces should be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned annually to keep residue from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop more soot and creosote, they need to be swept more regularly. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.