
Bruceton Mills, WV West Virginia 26525
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and prepared to assist! 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 certainly do a extensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries and also fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney examined and swept once-a-year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Generally they will begin at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very 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 small area of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We give quick and also reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it comes to be tar-like, and is harder to get rid of, sometimes 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really heavy, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is dangerous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it puts your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes lessened airflow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up 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 even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It can trigger inflamed skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most unsafe feature of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and most reliable means to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take fantastic care of your chimney as well as your house. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least annually in order to prevent fires and hazardous build up.
How often a chimney should be cleaned depends of exactly how often you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places must be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to enter into the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to keep residue from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they need to be swept much more frequently. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.