
Doylestown, PA Pennsylvania 18901
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and also 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 once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will carry out a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and also are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the space, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal the fireplace. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Typically they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully 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 small portion of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid 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, downy accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, occasionally requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health, and it places your home in danger of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide to build up inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and most effective method to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney as well as your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of annually in order to protect against fires and harmful build up.
How frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places should be examined yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and various other problems can develop which can allow carbon monoxide gas to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to keep soot from developing.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they must be swept much more regularly. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.