
Pulaski, WI Wisconsin 54162
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We offer 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 comprehensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney checked as well as swept once a year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, floor, and hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum hose pipe right into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal the fire place. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Usually they will start on top of the chimney 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 little area of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our expert chimney experts provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We give fast as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, in some cases requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fire place or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it restricts the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it puts your home in danger of fires.
Creosote build up creates decreased airflow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause inflamed skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is incredibly combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best and most reliable means to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at the very least yearly in order to protect against fires and harmful build up.
Just how often a chimney must be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces should be checked every year. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, fractures and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to enter the home.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned annually to keep soot from building up.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they should be swept more frequently. A good general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.