
Hayward, WI Wisconsin 54843
When you require your chimney swept, we are here and ready to help! We provide 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, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and also fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined and swept each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the area, flooring, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dust 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 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 sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a complete variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid and trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, sometimes needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really heavy, it limits the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it puts your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates decreased air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is toxic. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is incredibly combustible. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best as well as most reliable way to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and checked a minimum of yearly in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
Just how frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places need to be checked on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and various other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter the home.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned yearly to keep residue from accumulating.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create more soot and creosote, they should be swept much more frequently. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.