
Copen, WV West Virginia 26615
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We provide a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a ring and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to get rid of any deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and also fires each year. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined and swept yearly in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and are not advised. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will shield the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the area, floor, as well as fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll attach extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension rods. Typically they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully cleaning 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 portion of the plastic sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney experts supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid as well as reliable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, in some cases 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 becomes very hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it places your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes lessened air flow and this can enable carbon monoxide to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most hazardous feature of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and also most reliable way to get rid of creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney as well as your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at the very least annually in order to avoid fires and poisonous build up.
Just how often a chimney should be cleaned depends of how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be examined every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, fractures and various other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to enter the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they must be swept more regularly. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.