
White Sulphur Springs, WV West Virginia 24986
When you require 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 help with your chimney needs!
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A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to eliminate any kind of deposits, residue, creosote, and blockages from the chimney. Dirty, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and also fires annually. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney checked and also swept once-a-year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will carry out a full cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are truly not effective and also are not recommended. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To start, a cleaning service technician will protect the inside of your home by spreading tarps over the space, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with vinyl sheeting, putting an industrial vacuum cleaner pipe into the fireplace, and will after that tape and also seal the fire place. They'll attach extension hose pipes and run them to the commercial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which sits outdoors. This will catch the fine soot, creosote, and other dust later on.
Next off, they will clean the whole chimney with hand held brushes, and also brushes with extension poles. Usually they will begin on top of the chimney and work downward, very 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 after that peel back a tiny portion of the plastic sheeting and use a variety of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned up. The vinyl sheet and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned and tucked back into their vehicle.
Our professional chimney specialists supply a full variety of services including sweeping. We provide quick and also reliable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like material which develops from burning wood or coal. It begins as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it accumulates much more, it becomes tar-like, and is harder to eliminate, occasionally requiring the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and even more layers develop, the creosote solidifies.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke becomes very hot. Hard creosote can start to drip and also melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really hefty, it limits the air movement via the chimney flue. The restricted air circulation causes creosote to build up even quicker.
Creosote is hazardous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it places your house at risk of fires.
Creosote accumulation creates lessened air flow and this can permit carbon monoxide gas 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 also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas accumulation, creosote itself is toxic. It might trigger irritated skin and eyes, respiratory troubles, and is carcinogenic (cancer triggering).
The most unsafe thing about creosote is that it is exceptionally flammable. It's the most common 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 level.
Getting a chimney sweep performed is the best and most reliable way to remove creosote. Our licensed chimney service companies take wonderful care of your chimney as well as your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined at least yearly in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
Exactly how often a chimney must be cleaned depends of how often you use it and what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be checked annually. Although they burn cleaner, dampness, particles, cracks and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the house.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned annually to keep soot from building up.
Since wood burning fire places and stoves produce more soot and creosote, they must be swept a lot more regularly. A good general rule is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned inside.