
Birchwood, WI Wisconsin 54817
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We offer 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 certainly do a complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked as well as swept each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly ineffective and are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the space, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, putting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will then tape and seal the fire place. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Usually they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously cleaning 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 small area of the plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer quick and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material 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, in some cases requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is harmful in a number of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it puts your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate 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 bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and most reliable way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful 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 avoid fires and toxic build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of how often you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned yearly to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they must be swept more frequently. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.