
Plum City, WI Wisconsin 54761
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys cause injuries as well as fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked as well as swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service expert will do a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the space, flooring, and hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously brushing all the surfaces. 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 sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We give fast and also dependable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, in some cases needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Hardened creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really heavy, it limits the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it puts your house in danger of fires.
Creosote build up creates reduced airflow and this can allow carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most usual 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 best as well as most effective means to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney as well as your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of once a year in order to avoid fires and toxic build up.
How often a chimney should be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to prevent soot from developing.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they should be swept much more regularly. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.