Throughout the county, millions of homeowners rely on heat supply from wood
stoves, fireplaces, and other fossil-fuel heating devices to keep their
family warm and cozy during the harsh winter months. Your chimney is a
structure that offers ventilation for hot flue gases or smoke from a stove,
boiler, fireplace, or furnace, and needs regular maintenance to keep
functioning optimally. Getting your chimney maintained right before fall
arrives is an excellent course of action since it brings along the
following advantages:
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Clean any debris from your chimney that could block harmful smoke from
entering your home. The CSIA (Chimney Safety Institute of America
reports that there are over 200 carbon monoxide poisoning deaths every
year. Branches, dead leaves are common culprits, but birds and animals
also often use chimneys as a home, bringing in nesting materials and
other unwanted stuff. Getting chimney maintenance will keep your vent
clean and risk-free, and also improve the efficiency of your fireplace
and other heating appliances in a way that warm air stays inside and
the toxic fumes stay outside.
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Get rid of creosote, which is a toxic and dangerous by-product of
burning fires and can quickly spread to the rest of your home during
fires, and, in strong fires, can become ablaze and spread further. Each
year, creosote contributes to thousands of house fires. In addition to
that, it can prevent proper ventilation and cause the harmful fumes to
enter the home, which can eventually prove to be deadly.
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Ensure that your chimney is in optimum working condition and free of
excessive wear. If damaged significantly, water from rain and storms
can absorb straight into your home, damaging walls and result in the
formation of mold. In addition to that, cracks in your chimney will
also enable noxious smoke into your home.
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Prevents costly repairs in the future - A wood-powered fireplace can
reach temperatures of 1100 degrees Fahrenheit, thereby creating ashes,
wood bits, soot, and other particles that are by-products of the
combustion process that can coat the damper, flue liner, masonry and
smoke shelf with contaminants, grime, and dirt. Professional chimney
cleaning assists in reducing damage on these components so you can then
prevent costly chimney repairs in the future. In addition, proper
chimney maintenance can help unleash potential problems before they
worsen and become more stressful as well as expensive.
Don't be among those careless homeowners who undermine the significance of
regular chimney maintenance. Give Clean Sweep a call today, and we will
then send a team of licensed and experienced cleaning crew to assess the
damage (if any) and determine whether your chimney is in need of repairs,
replacement or just good old maintenance. Get your fireplace ready and
working optimally before the chilly days of fall arrive.
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