
Chippewa Falls, WI Wisconsin 54729
When you need your chimney swept, we are available 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!
Customer satisfaction is our main priority. We proudly provide fast response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney inspected and also swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective 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 technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the room, floor, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Typically they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, thoroughly brushing 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 range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts supply a full range of services including sweeping. We give fast and trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, in some cases needing 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 comes to be really hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is harmful in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers decreased air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and most reliable means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least yearly in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
Just how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and other issues can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from accumulating.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.