
Downsville, WI Wisconsin 54735
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to remove any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked and also swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will carry out a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective 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 specialist will protect the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the space, floor, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner tube right into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Usually they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully cleaning all the surfaces. Your chimney sweep will clean the flue, the damper, the smoke chamber, the smoke shelf, and the firebox.
They will then peel back a small area of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We give fast and also dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery 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 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health and wellness, and it puts your residence in danger of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas 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 toxic. It could cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most harmful thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and also most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at the very least yearly in order to prevent fires and hazardous build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney must be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places ought to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other concerns can develop which can allow carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from developing.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more frequently. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.