Collinsville, OK Oklahoma 74021
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our top priority. We proudly provide great response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to remove any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions 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 suggests having your chimney examined and swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal the fireplace. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start on top of the chimney and work downward, thoroughly 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 then peel back a small area of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and put away.
Our expert chimney specialists provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer fast as well as trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, occasionally needing 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 extremely hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates reduced air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide to accumulate 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 also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause inflamed skin and eyes, breathing problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best and also most effective means to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your house. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of yearly in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
How often a chimney should be cleaned depends of exactly how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places should be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, fractures and other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to get into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned annually to keep residue from building up.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop more residue 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.