Baileys Harbor, WI Wisconsin 54202
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a ring and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our #1 priority. We happily offer great response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will certainly do a detailed chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked and also swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and also are not recommended. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning specialist will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum tube into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Usually they will begin at the 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 then peel back a tiny area of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide quick and 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 builds up much more, it ends up being tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, sometimes requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Hard creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your house in danger of fires.
Creosote build up creates diminished air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It might trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is incredibly flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and most effective method to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney as well as your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least once a year in order to prevent fires and harmful build up.
Exactly how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and various other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide gas to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from developing.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they must be swept a lot more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.