
Camano Island, WA Washington 98282
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We provide a wide 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 complete chimney cleaning to remove any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries and fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined and also swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the room, floor, as well as hearth. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner hose right into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Generally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 portion of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts offer a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer quick and also trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to remove, occasionally requiring 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health and wellness, and it places your house in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes diminished air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most dangerous aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and most effective means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney as well as your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of yearly in order to prevent fires and poisonous build up.
Just how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places should be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and various other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to keep soot from developing.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they should be swept more regularly. A good general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.