
Durant, OK Oklahoma 74701
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 call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked as well as swept every year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the whole 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 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 small area of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete range of services including sweeping. We offer quick and also reputable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, sometimes needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it limits the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it places your house at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes lessened air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide 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 poisonous. It might trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the very best as well as most reliable means to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and also your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at the very least once a year in order to protect against fires and harmful build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be checked annually. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned yearly to prevent residue from accumulating.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.