If your chimney is dirty and clogged, a sweep will involve using brushes, hand tools, and a vacuum to remove the dust particles that have built up over time.
It also involves inspecting the inside of the chimney to ensure safety from potential hazards like bird nests or squirrels. Professionals can remove these hazards without damaging your home’s fireplace or wood-burning stove.
Step 1: A Chimney Sweep Needs to Know What Exactly is Wrong
Before they come in to clean your chimney, it’s important to talk with them about any problems you’re having with it such as cracks or blockages that need be to repaired (sometimes only an experienced sweep can handle that).
A chimney sweep will also clean fireplaces and wood-burning stoves. They can get into the crevices of your house to clean the flues, including ones that may be inside your walls or under your roof.
Step 2: Cleaning the Chimney Bottom
Professionals will start by cleaning the chimney at the bottom with special brushes (also called fish brushes). Those are powerful enough to clean out debris from deep inside a chimney. The sweep will then move to the roof too so they can clean it.
Step 3: Washing Your Chimney’s Flue
Next, they’ll wash out your stove’s flue and inspect it. While they’re in there, they should check for leaks and cracks in the pipes that lead to your wood-burning stove. If they detect any problems, they’ll fix them usually by replacing one or all of those pipes.
How Much Does A Chimney Sweep Service Cost?
The price of this service varies. It can be anywhere from $50 to as much as $170 depending on how much work needs to be done. If you’re in Connecticut, then the chimney sweep should come out to your home in person instead of just sending the photos over via email.
That’s because our region is covered in fog (at least some part of it) for most of the year. The chimney sweep needs to see your fireplace and a wood-burning stove for themself.
To hire a reliable and efficient chimney sweep, contact CT Chimney Repair. We offer one of the best chimney sweeping services in Connecticut. Our chimney services include chimney repairs, chimney inspections, chimney liners installation, and more.
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