
Davisville, WV West Virginia 26142
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We provide a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a ring and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our main priority. We happily offer fast response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys cause injuries as well as 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 each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will protect the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the space, flooring, as well as hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, placing an industrial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Normally they will begin at the 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 after that peel back a little portion of the vinyl sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts supply a complete range of services including sweeping. We offer quick and reputable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it ends up being tar-like, and is more difficult 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 becomes really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very heavy, it limits the airflow through 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 hazardous for your health and wellness, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes diminished air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous thing about creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most common source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the very best and also most effective way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and your home. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least once a year in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and various other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the house.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to prevent soot from developing.
Due to the fact that wood burning fireplaces and stoves develop even more residue and creosote, they must be swept more often. A good rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.