Iaeger, WV West Virginia 24844
When you require your chimney swept, we are available and ready to help! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a ring and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our #1 priority. We happily offer fast response times and the best quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a complete chimney cleaning to eliminate any type of deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and also fires annually. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney checked and swept once a year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service expert will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and are not advised. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning professional will shield the inside of your residence by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, and also fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an commercial vacuum cleaner tube right into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Typically they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, meticulously 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 then peel back a little area of the plastic sheeting and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleared off and put away.
Our expert chimney experts offer a complete range of services including sweeping. We offer fast as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which develops from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, downy accumulation which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up much 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 more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip and melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is very heavy, it restricts the airflow through the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is unsafe in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health and wellness, and it places your home at risk of fires.
Creosote build up triggers lessened air movement and this can enable carbon monoxide gas to develop inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless as well as colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can even lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is extremely combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to endure a high level of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep executed is the very best and most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take great care of your chimney and also your house. We suggest that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least once a year in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How often a chimney should be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn within. Gas burning fire places need to be inspected every year. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, particles, cracks and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to get into the house.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned once a year to keep residue from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves develop even more residue and creosote, they must be swept a lot more regularly. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.