
Camden, WV West Virginia 26338
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to assist! We offer a wide 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 comprehensive chimney cleaning to remove any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries and also fires every year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney checked as well as swept every year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service specialist will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and also are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fireplace, and will then tape and 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 catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Normally they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously 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 plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and put away.
Our expert chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We offer rapid as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it ends up being tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be extremely hot. Hard creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it puts your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes reduced airflow and this can allow carbon monoxide to build up 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 even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can rapidly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the best as well as most effective means to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney as well as your house. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at the very least yearly in order to prevent fires and harmful build up.
Just how frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces must be inspected annually. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other concerns can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the home.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to prevent soot from building up.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they need to be swept a lot more frequently. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.