
East Troy, WI Wisconsin 53120
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! 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!
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A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to remove any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries and also fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked as well as swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will do a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the area, floor, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum hose into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension pipes 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 off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Typically they will start on top of the chimney and work downward, thoroughly 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 after that peel back a small area of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete range of services including sweeping. We give quick and dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, 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 becomes really hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes lessened air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also bring about death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It can trigger irritated skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most harmful thing about creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best as well as most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney as well as your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of once a year in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
How frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and various other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter the residence.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from building up.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept more regularly. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.