
Du Bois, PA Pennsylvania 15801
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a ring and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our #1 priority. We happily offer rapid response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, residue, creosote, as well as obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected as well as swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, putting an industrial vacuum cleaner tube right 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 outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Typically they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly cleaning 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 and cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our expert chimney specialists provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer fast and also trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it ends up being tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, in some cases needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers reduced airflow and this can enable carbon monoxide to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best as well as most effective means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least yearly in order to avoid fires and poisonous build up.
Exactly 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 must be inspected on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to prevent soot from building up.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they ought to be swept much more often. A good general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.