
North Freedom, WI Wisconsin 53951
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to assist! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, residue, creosote, as well as obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries and also fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected and swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will carry out a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Typically they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, very carefully brushing all the surface areas. 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 portion of the plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid and also trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which initially can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be 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 becomes extremely hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is really hefty, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it places your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up causes decreased air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, breathing problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most unsafe feature of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the very best and most effective means to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney as well as your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least once a year in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
Just how frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be examined yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from accumulating.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more soot and creosote, they should be swept more frequently. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.