
Logan, WV West Virginia 25601
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 comprehensive chimney cleaning to remove any type of deposits, soot, creosote, and also blockages from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys create injuries and fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association advises having your chimney examined as well as swept every year in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service professional will perform a complete cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really ineffective and are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your house by spreading tarps over the room, flooring, and hearth. They will cover the fireplace with plastic sheets, inserting an commercial vacuum hose right into the fire place, and will then tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the industrial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally they will start on top of the chimney and work downward, meticulously 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 little portion of the vinyl sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, downy build up which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, in some cases 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be very hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is very hefty, it restricts the air flow through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it puts your house in danger of fires.
Creosote accumulation causes lessened airflow and this can permit carbon monoxide to develop inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas which can cause flu-like symptoms, and can even cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It might cause irritated skin and eyes, breathing troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most dangerous thing about creosote is that it is incredibly combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly surpass this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best as well as most reliable way to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and also your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected at least annually in order to prevent fires and toxic build up.
How often a chimney should be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it and also what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces need to be examined on a yearly basis. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, fractures and various other issues can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to get into the residence.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned once a year to prevent residue from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves create more soot and creosote, they need to be swept much more regularly. A great general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.