
Mauldin, SC South Carolina 29662
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We provide a full 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 extensive chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked as well as swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform 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 begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum hose right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Usually they will begin at the 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 after that peel back a little area of the plastic sheet 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 off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide quick and reputable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins 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 harder to eliminate, in some cases needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it places your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers lessened air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and also most effective method to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney as well as your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least yearly in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
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 must be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep soot from accumulating.
Since 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.