Before your home this winter, you should check your chimney for any risk of damage or security.
The recent weather has not quite the cause for the feeding of a warm fire in the fireplace. But now is the right time than ever before, all measures to ensure that your house, fireplace or stove and chimney are in good shape for the rest of the winter season.
Most experts recommend sweep chimney inspection and maintenance and cleaning of your system, the chimney of the house every 12 months or every bead wire and semi-burnt wood.
Certified Chimney Sweep Thomas "Tom" Reynolds basis Massachusetts Lee, CleanSweep, said: "He, the wood should burn continuously through the season your chimney and fireplace cleaned before the snow begins want to fly."
Receive regular cleaning and prolong the life of the fireplace, which can increase a home's appeal and value. The checks also ensure that the chimney system is safe and to building code.
You should check yourself or hire a professional, the first step before a fire is to carry out a visual inspection of all components of the chimney system, from the base of the chimney to the top of the chimney.
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After the Safety Institute of America fireplace, homeowners should be able to be to identify their chimney systems built a factory built or masonry chimney home made hand: as one of two ways. Masonry chimneys tend to be a complex system of square brick chimney, which extends from the foundation of the house through the roof and have it while a prefabricated fireplace tends of metal and having more of a cylindrical shape for the system.
Visual inspection, also known as chimney sweeper for inspection Level I is known, looking for cracks includes; the accumulation of soot and ash, blocks or other obvious damage to the chimney system, which may affect the efficacy and safety of the fireplace chimney or other heating system of the house. This wear can be caused by age, regular use, time and chimney fires past.
Chimney systems can also by breeding animals and storm debris can be blocked or by the moisture mixed with soot, which explains why a chimney is an important step in preserving and be corroded to protect your system element.
Certified Chimney Sweep Eric Brown, owner of Green Mountain Ramoneur based in Poultney, Vt said. "Take a flashlight and look through the chimney. Common sense will tell you, if you think there is a problem."
Brown said homeowners should also examine the system of household waste and ashes.
"The best thing to do is to see all the cracks and loose mortar around the house and home ground. So it can be treated before they become serious. Embers may fall there and stay there and burn," said he .
Video Equipment If something visual can immediately be seen, but there are problems such as odor or smoke accumulate when the fireplace or with professional license used other fuel system may be required to use or be in severe cases, open a component of the wall and the chimney in order more and more to get a look at potential problems.
Reynolds said that regular inspections of particular importance for owners of second homes and the people who use their homes less frequently, as opposed to regular users, who are more likely to notice changes in the functioning and efficiency.
"Any kind of turbulence around the house, earthquakes mining, construction, etc., can lead to change things internally or crack. All smoke is not normal poured into the room and could be a problem internal structure of the chimney" Reynolds said.
The important thing to note in fireplaces is the accumulation of a substance as a name of creosote, tar residue, which is known in several stages, depending on the degree of firewood. It is the better air circulation and a better quality of dry wood is used in a fireplace, the better the combustion and less heavy creosote.
Scanning a standard fireplace, depending on the size and the storage system may be between 40 minutes and two hours. The newspapers called sweeping or cleaning can reduce creosote buildup to, but there is no substitute for actually cleaned the brick and siding.
And while it is tempting to burn this time of year to other fuels, such as trimming Christmas trees, wrapping paper or stacks of boxes remains, experts say it is better to recycle these elements, or at least in a controlled burn fire home.
"The house is burning wood, which is a target," Reynolds, noting the items listed above are not burn readily and potentially could lead to a chimney fire said.
In 2014 there were 712 cases of fire chimneys, fireplaces and wood stoves in Massachusetts, according to the Fire Services Department in Massachusetts. These fires were three deaths among civilians and injured four civilians and injured six firefighters. They have resulted in $ 2.7 million in property loss. These incidents make 41 percent of all fires involving heating equipment
Another good practice Brown said, is to establish a regular cleaning and disposal of the ashes of the hearth.
"With the ashes, you must ensure that you emptied into a metal container and store them out of the house on a non-combustible floor, away from the structure. Keep a bucket of ashes inside. You can burn for a while and the following you know, they might burn a bridge or a rug, "he said. "You never want to take the fire, and that is something that should be practiced throughout the year."
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In this story:
• Clean Sweep :. Lee, Massachusetts, 413-243-1691 or cleansweepma.com
• Green Mountain Ramoneur :. Poultney, Vermont, 802-353-2379 or greenmountainchimneysweep.com
For more information about taking care of the fire and looking for Authorized Services and Certificates:
• Massachusetts Chimney Sweep Guild: mcsguild.org
• National Chimney Sweep Guild: ncsg.org or 317-837-1500
• Safety Institute of America Fireside: csia.org or 317-837-5362
• Safety Brochure fireplace and wood stove: http://ow.ly/WgMHl
• on the chimney cleaning and repair scams: http://ow.ly/WgMVg
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