
Shoshoni, WY Wyoming 82649
When you need your chimney swept, we are available and prepared to help! We offer a wide range of chimney services including sweeping, maintenance, and repairs. Just give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our #1 priority. We proudly provide great response times and top quality services for all our chimney sweeping customers.
A chimney sweep will do a extensive chimney cleaning to remove any deposits, soot, creosote, and also obstructions from the chimney. Filthy, damaged deteriorating, and blocked chimneys create injuries and fires yearly. If you use you fire place or wood burning stove, the National Fire Protection Association recommends having your chimney inspected as well as swept each year in order to protect against fires.
A chimney service professional will execute a total cleaning of your chimney. Cleaning logs are really not effective and also are not suggested. They will not remove all the soot and creosote buildup out of the chimney like hand cleaning.
To begin, a cleaning technician will protect the inside of your residence by spreading tarps over the room, floor, and fireplace. They will cover the fire place with plastic sheets, putting an commercial vacuum cleaner hose pipe into the fireplace, and will then tape and also seal the fireplace. They'll attach extension pipes and run them to the industrial vacuum cleaner with a fine micron filter which rests outside. This will catch the fine residue, creosote, and other dirt later on.
Next, they will brush the entire chimney with hand held brushes, as well as brushes with extension rods. Normally they will start on top of the chimney and work downward, very carefully brushing 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 vinyl sheet and use a range of brushes inside. Following this, everything will be vacuumed and also cleaned. The vinyl sheeting and tarps will be relocated outside, cleaned off and put away.
Our professional chimney experts provide a full range of services including sweeping. We provide rapid and dependable service.
Creosote is a brownish, oily, tar-like compound which forms from burning wood or coal. It starts as a loose, feathery build up which in the beginning can be brushed away easily. As it builds up more, it becomes tar-like, and is more difficult to eliminate, occasionally needing the use of scrapers to remove it. If left uncleaned, and more layers develop, the creosote hardens.
When a fire is burned in the fireplace or wood stove, the smoke comes to be really hot. Solidified creosote can start to drip as well as melt like wax. As soon as the build up of creosote is really heavy, it restricts the air movement through the chimney flue. The restricted air flow causes creosote to build up even faster.
Creosote is dangerous in a number of different ways. It's toxic and harmful for your health, and it puts your home in jeopardy of fires.
Creosote build up creates reduced air movement and this can allow carbon monoxide to build up inside your residence while a fire is burning. Carbon monoxide gas is an odorless and colorless gas which can trigger flu-like symptoms, and can also cause death.
Besides the carbon monoxide gas build up, creosote itself is toxic. It could cause irritated skin and eyes, respiratory issues, and is carcinogenic (cancer causing).
The most harmful feature of creosote is that it is unbelievably flammable. It's the most typical source of chimney fires. While chimneys are made to withstand a high degree of heat, the strength of a chimney fire can swiftly exceed this degree.
Getting a chimney sweep carried out is the best as well as most reliable method to eliminate creosote. Our qualified chimney service companies take terrific care of your chimney and your home. We advise that you get your chimney cleaned and examined a minimum of annually in order to protect against fires and toxic build up.
Just how often a chimney ought to be cleaned depends of exactly how frequently you use it as well as what materials you burn inside. Gas burning fireplaces should be inspected yearly. Although they burn cleaner, moisture, debris, cracks and other issues can develop which can enable carbon monoxide to enter the home.
Oil burning flues need to be cleaned annually to keep residue from building up.
Because wood burning fire places and stoves produce even more residue and creosote, they need to be swept much more frequently. A great rule of thumb is to have your chimney swept after a cord of wood has been burned within.