Caring for your chimney is a breeze when you rely on Canterbury Sweeps. Our company, based in Monrovia, Maryland, offers top-quality chimney cleaning services to keep your investment maintained like new.
While chimney brushes can be used to remove some types of creosote, the more sticky and tar-like creosote residue known as third degree creosote can require specialized heavy duty stainless steel tools to remove the worst of the buildup.
Unfortunately, one of the things that chimney sweeps often find in their annual inspections is that fireplaces have been incorrectly installed. If there's not enough clearance, this can reduce efficiency or even cause a fire hazard. A chimney professional can give you recommendations to address the problem, so your fireplace works as intended.
Although the Internet may provide no shortage of information on how to clean your own chimney, this is a maintenance task truly best left to professionals. Not only is getting on the roof hazardous, but it’s easy to miss issues with your chimney when you aren’t experienced.
A chimney sweep will be sure to check the condition of your chimney damper, which can be adjusted to allow more or less air into the fireplace. If the damper breaks and does not open, all the smoke and gases will remain in the home.
Do you know where the term “light a fire under you” came from? This is actually a chimney sweep term that emerged in the 1700s and 1800s. Children chimney sweeps were often reluctant to clean out the dirty, soot-encrusted flue. But they had no choice but to finish the job when a fire was lit underneath them by their chimney master.
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