
Alma Center, WI Wisconsin 54611
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and fires every year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined as well as swept each year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective 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 house by spreading out tarps over the space, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fireplace, and will after that tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Typically they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 after that peel back a little portion of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a full range of services including sweeping. We offer rapid and reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, sometimes 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it places your house in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up creates reduced airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is extremely 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 promptly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and most effective method to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least once a year in order to prevent fires and harmful build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be inspected yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to get into the home.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned annually to keep soot from accumulating.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they ought to be swept much more often. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.