
Palestine, WV West Virginia 26160
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, residue, creosote, and obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys trigger injuries and also fires yearly. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney examined and swept every year in order to prevent 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 get all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning professional will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the area, flooring, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheets, inserting an industrial vacuum pipe right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fireplace. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later.
Next off, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension poles. Generally 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 small area of the vinyl sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and cleaned. The plastic sheet and tarps will be moved outside, cleared off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We provide fast as well as reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like substance which forms from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to get rid of, in some cases needing 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 comes to be really hot. Hardened creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it restricts the air flow via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is dangerous in a couple of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote build up causes decreased air flow and this can allow carbon monoxide gas to build up inside your house while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also lead to death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could trigger inflamed skin and eyes, respiratory system issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most dangerous feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably combustible. It's the most usual source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to hold up against a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep done is the very best and also most effective way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and checked at least yearly in order to protect against fires and hazardous build up.
How frequently a chimney should be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces ought to be examined annually. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and various other concerns can develop which can permit carbon monoxide gas to enter into the residence.
Oil burning flues should be cleaned yearly to keep residue from developing.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more residue and creosote, they ought to be swept a lot more regularly. A great guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.