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A chimney sweep will certainly do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked and swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning professional will protect the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the area, floor, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, putting an commercial vacuum hose pipe into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Usually they will begin at the 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 tiny portion of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid and trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it puts your house in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers reduced air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It can trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous aspect 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 strength of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best as well as most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at the very least yearly in order to prevent fires and harmful build up.
How frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places need to be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and other issues can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter the home.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned annually to keep soot from accumulating.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept more often. A good general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.