
Almena, WI Wisconsin 54805
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a thorough chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected as well as swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the room, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe right into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Normally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly 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 vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We offer fast as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, in some cases needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it puts your home in danger of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes diminished airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It might cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the best as well as most reliable way to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least annually in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How often a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places ought to be examined yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, fractures and various other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to prevent soot from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create more residue and creosote, they need to be swept much more often. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.