
Waterloo, WI Wisconsin 53594
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to help! We provide a wide 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 detailed chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create 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 and swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually ineffective and are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner hose right into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal the fire place. They'll connect extension hose pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next off, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Normally they will start at the 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 vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our expert chimney specialists supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer fast and reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to remove, sometimes 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 comes to be really hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, 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 different ways. It's toxic and unsafe for your health, and it puts your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes lessened air movement and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer creating).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best as well as most reliable way to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney as well as your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least once a year in order to protect against fires and harmful build up.
How frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how often you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fire places need to be examined yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the residence.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to keep soot from developing.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they should be swept a lot more frequently. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.