
Egg Harbor, WI Wisconsin 54209
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a ring and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a thorough chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked and swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will shield the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the area, floor, and also fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Normally they will start at the top of the chimney 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 tiny area of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a full range of services including sweeping. We offer fast and also trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, occasionally 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. Hard creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is really hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it places your house in danger of fires.
Creosote accumulation triggers diminished air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to develop inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It might cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can quickly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best and also most reliable way to eliminate creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and also your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of yearly in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of how often you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be inspected yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other issues can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned annually to keep soot from accumulating.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more often. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.