
Spooner, WI Wisconsin 54801
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We offer 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 thorough chimney cleaning to remove any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries and fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected and also swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not recommended. They will not remove 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 space, flooring, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, placing an commercial vacuum cleaner tube into the fireplace, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Typically they will start on top of the chimney and work downward, carefully cleaning 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 little portion of the vinyl 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, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We give rapid and trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which initially can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to remove, 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes really hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is very hefty, it limits the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is harmful in a number of various ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your residence in danger of fires.
Creosote build up triggers reduced air flow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide 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 build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It could cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system problems, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and most reliable method to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney as well as your home. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least once a year in order to prevent fires and harmful build up.
Just how often a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how often you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces must be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and various other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter into the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned annually to keep soot from developing.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves develop more residue and creosote, they must be swept much more often. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.