
Grant Town, WV West Virginia 26574
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to assist! We provide a wide 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 complete chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, as well as blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries as well as fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected and swept yearly in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will carry out a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and also are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote accumulation out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the space, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal the fire place. They'll attach extension tubes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, very carefully brushing 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 small portion of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned up. The plastic sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We give fast and reputable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy accumulation 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 get rid of, sometimes requiring 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. Solidified creosote can start to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes lessened air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even result in death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It might cause inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous feature of creosote is that it is extremely flammable. It's the most common cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can quickly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and also most effective way to get rid of creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney and your residence. We recommend that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least yearly in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
Exactly how frequently a chimney needs to be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and other problems can develop which can enable carbon monoxide gas to get into the home.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned annually to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they should be swept more often. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.