Four Seasons Home Comfort offers a complete Chimney Sweeping service for your home or business.
The services we offer are: duct cleaning, chimney soot removal, servicing plugged dryer vents, insulation removal and cleaning hoppers and bins.
Please contact us to book a chimney sweep or for more information.
We also offer a full inspection service for fireplaces and chimneys. You can have this service included with your chimney sweep as well. Please contact us to book an inspection for for more information.
The fuel we use to heat our homes may not, in fact, be burning completely. Wood, coal or the sawdust pellets used in pellet stoves can all leave a residue on the sides of the flue. Natural gas, however, is a cleaner burningfuel and doesn't present this problem. The gathering of residue is especially bad when wood is green or, as is the case with old railway tiles, treated with creosote. The residue is black, sticky soot can cause serious problems - chimney fires.
You can take advantage of 4 Season's chimney sweeping service and be rid of worry, danger and be ready for the winter season.
You might consider having an inspection performed first. Soot around the chimney cap is a good indicator of a dirty chimney. However, some of the build-up might be down closer to the firebox where it can't be seen. This concern and the fact that an inspection is included in the cost of the actual sweep if you have it done all at once might make it a better idea just to go ahead with the whole thing.
What can you expect if you hire a chimney sweep? A truck equipped with vacuum equiptment, pulls up in front of your house and a serviceman in coveralls gets out. Inside, he covers the fireplace opening and the floor. Then it's up to the roof and the chimney cap where a brush on a four foot pole that screws into other four foot poles is poked down and the opening is moved up and down the flue like a brush in a bottle. The soot is knocked loose and falls into the fireplace where it is vacuumed up and taken away.
How often should a chimney be cleaned? That depends on how much you use the fireplace or stove. It can also depend on other factors. For example, if you have too large a unit installed in too small a room, you may not be able to burn the unit hot enough. The result could be a relatively rapid soot build-up and a smoky fire. In any even, a chimney should be checked at least once a year. To make it easier to arrange a time that's convenient, you might want to plan for sometime other than early fall. That's the really busy season as the cooler weather arrives and all at once people suddenly remember they have fireplaces.
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