
Glen Easton, WV West Virginia 26039
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 call and we can help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a thorough chimney cleaning to get rid of any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries and fires annually. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney inspected and also swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will do a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and also 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 shield the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the space, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner tube into the fire place, and will after that tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next, they will brush the whole chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Normally they will start on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, meticulously brushing all the surfaces. 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 small portion of the plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists offer a full range of services including sweeping. We provide fast as well as dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it ends up being tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, in some cases 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 fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes extremely hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and also melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes reduced air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can also result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is poisonous. It might cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most hazardous aspect of creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best as well as most reliable means to remove creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least yearly in order to prevent fires and poisonous build up.
How frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and other issues can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned annually to keep residue from accumulating.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves develop even more soot and creosote, they must be swept much more frequently. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.