
Fountain City, WI Wisconsin 54629
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just 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 get rid of any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger 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 inspected as well as swept yearly in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and also are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the area, floor, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner hose into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. 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 dust later.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Normally they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, thoroughly 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 plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We give fast and also dependable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts 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 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is really hefty, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it puts your residence in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up triggers diminished air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide 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 cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is exceptionally flammable. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best as well as most effective way to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney as well as your residence. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of yearly in order to protect against fires and poisonous build up.
How often a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be inspected every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to prevent soot from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more residue and creosote, they should be swept more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.