CHIMNEY SWEEP
CHIMNEY SWEEP
The role of the chimney sweep
The periodic maintenanceof flues is an action of fundamentalimportance to prevent fires and protect the environment.
The role played bythe chimney sweep is considered essential as it ensures the proper functioning of the flue systems, the fireplace used and the correct evacuation of the combustion products.
Nowadays the chimney sweep is responsible for the maintenance intervention, therefore in addition to the mere brushing of the ducts, it must provide for checking the state of conservation of the flue system, any anomalies and above all must guarantee efficiency and tightness.
Only ordinary maintenance thus designed prevents fires and carbon monoxide poisoning.
CLEANING IS MAINTENANCE
Periodic cleaning of smoke pipes and fire engines is essential.
From the incomplete combustion of solidand liquidproducts,some unburnt particles are created which, on their way to the exit from the roof, are deposited on the chimney walls in the form of light fulgens (presenting themselves
in a dusty conformation) or, in the worstcase, originating hard crusts, more commonly identified as crystallized fulgens (tar).
Being such incrustations a magma of matter
not yet combating, the looming danger
it is given by the sudden ignition of these
sediments that could give rise to stresses
criticism of the building materials of the fireplace,
as well as triggering self-ignition to neighboring materials.
No less important is the appearance of dark spots on the surface of the external walls of theflue and the progressive reduction in the efficiency of the fireplace due to partial or total obstruction of the same.
The cleaning of the chimney hasthe purpose to avoid such inconveniences and to guarantee the safety of the tenant and of the structure in which he lives.
MAINTENANCE IS SAFETY
The cleaning of the smoke pipes and the firing machines is only a part of the work of the chimney sweep, we must in fact abandon the idea of the chimney sweep by Mary Poppins.
It is essential to combine the manual cleaning operation with a technological tool that also allows documentation.
It is only thanks to this fact that we are able to be precise and to carry out a thorough inspection.
For this reason the VIDEO INSPECTION
of the conduit is fundamental, which allows us to analyze the conditions of it, and theANALYSIS OF COMBUSTION.
WHEN TO CLEAN?
- Open fireplaces: cleaning the hearth, fireplace and chimney flue every 35 quintals of burned wood.
- Closed fireplaces: cleaning the hearth, connection or smoke duct, chimney or chimney every 25 quintals of burned wood.
- Cheap kitchens:
cleaning pipes and stove every 10 quintals, while the chimney every 35 quintals.
- Continuous fire wood-burning stoves: cleaning pipes and hearth every 10 quintals of burned wood. For the chimney every 35 quintals approx.
- Leather stovest: weekly cleaning of the brazier and TEE of soot rear deposit. Chimney: annual cleaning.
- Wood-burning and radiant heating stove: flue gas cleaning every 100 quintals of burned wood.
- Chimney and smoke channel: every 30 quintals of burned wood.
- Wood-fired boilers or pellet boilers: cleaning of the hearth and monthly flue gas, annual flue.
- Termocucine: monthly cleaning of the stove and annual chimney.
- Bread or pizza ovens: fireplace cleaning and quarterly chimney.