
Hartsville, SC South Carolina 29550
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney checked as well as swept annually in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start at the top of the chimney and work downward, carefully cleaning 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 tiny area of the plastic sheeting and use a range 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 professional chimney specialists provide a full range of services including sweeping. We provide fast as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, sometimes 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes reduced air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best as well as most effective way to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least once a year in order to protect against fires and poisonous build up.
How frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places must be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the home.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to prevent soot from accumulating.
Due to the fact that wood burning fire places and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept much more frequently. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.