
Tallmansville, WV West Virginia 26237
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A chimney sweep will do a detailed chimney cleaning to eliminate any deposits, soot, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and obstructed chimneys trigger injuries as well as fires each year. If you use you fireplace or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association suggests having your chimney inspected and swept yearly in order to prevent fires.
A chimney service expert will do a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are actually not effective and are not suggested. They will not get all the soot and creosote build-up out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the room, floor, and also hearth. They will cover the fireplace with vinyl sheets, putting an industrial vacuum pipe right into the fire place, and will then tape and seal off the fire place. They'll connect extension hoses and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will trap the fine residue, creosote, and other dust later.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension poles. Typically they will begin on top of the smokeshaft and work downward, carefully 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 tiny area of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed as well as cleaned. The plastic sheeting and tarps will be moved outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney specialists provide a full variety of services including sweeping. We offer fast and reputable service.
Creosote is a brown, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery accumulation which at first can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, sometimes requiring 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 fire place or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can begin to drip as well as melt like wax. Once the build up of creosote is extremely heavy, it restricts the airflow via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to accumulate even faster.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and hazardous for your health, and it places your house in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up creates decreased air movement and this can permit carbon monoxide gas to accumulate inside your home 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 accumulation, creosote itself is poisonous. It can cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most unsafe aspect of creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most usual cause of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can promptly exceed this level.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the very best and most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take excellent care of your chimney and also your residence. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at the very least annually in order to protect against fires and poisonous build up.
How often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of just how frequently you use it and what materials you burn within. Gas burning fireplaces need to be checked yearly. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, debris, cracks and various other problems can develop which can permit carbon monoxide to get into the house.
Oil burning flues must be cleaned once a year to keep soot from developing.
Because wood burning fireplaces and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they must be swept a lot more frequently. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.