
Short Creek, WV West Virginia 26058
When you need your chimney swept, we are here and ready to assist! We offer a full range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our #1 priority. We happily provide great response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a comprehensive chimney cleaning to get rid of any kind of deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Dirty, 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 suggests having your chimney checked and also swept every year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service specialist will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually 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 specialist will protect the inside of your home by spreading out tarps over the room, flooring, as well as hearth. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheeting, inserting an industrial vacuum cleaner tube right into the fire place, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. They'll connect extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outside. This will trap the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will clean the entire chimney with hand held brushes, and brushes with extension rods. Generally they will start at the top of the smokeshaft and work downward, thoroughly cleaning 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 tiny portion of the plastic sheet and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned up. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a complete variety of services including sweeping. We offer rapid as well as trustworthy service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like substance which forms 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 more, it comes to be tar-like, and is more difficult to remove, sometimes needing 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 becomes very hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. When the build up of creosote is extremely hefty, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is harmful in a couple of various ways. It's toxic and dangerous for your health, and it places your residence at risk of fires.
Creosote build up triggers decreased airflow and this can enable carbon monoxide to accumulate inside your home while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and also colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide build up, creosote itself is toxic. It can trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory system troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most harmful aspect of creosote is that it is exceptionally combustible. It's the most typical cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to stand up to a high degree of heat, the intensity of a chimney fire can rapidly surpass this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best and also most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney as well as your house. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and inspected a minimum of yearly in order to prevent fires and harmful build up.
Just how often a chimney must be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be inspected annually. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, fractures and various other concerns can develop which can allow carbon monoxide gas to enter the house.
Oil burning flues ought to be cleaned annually to keep residue from accumulating.
Since wood burning fireplaces and stoves create even more soot and creosote, they should be swept a lot more frequently. A good guideline is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.