Cayce, SC South Carolina 29033
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! 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 satisfaction is our #1 priority. We happily offer great response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, residue, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney examined as well as swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll connect extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very 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 little portion of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our expert chimney specialists offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, sometimes requiring 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 very hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it puts your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers lessened air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also 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 could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best as well as most effective way to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and also your residence. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least yearly in order to avoid fires and hazardous build up.
Exactly how often a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces need to be examined annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep residue from developing.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more residue and creosote, they should be swept much more regularly. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.