chimney sweeping in St. Paul, MN<\/a>. When you want to go past thinking about getting your chimney cleaned and actually get it clean, contact us.<\/p>\nHere are some jobs that chimney sweeps\u2014well, chimney technicians<\/i>\u2014perform that you won\u2019t learn about from Disney movies:<\/p>\nCreosote cleaning<\/h3>\n
The black shiny substance that will start to cover the bricks of your chimney after burning wood and coal in the hearth is called creosote. Basically, it\u2019s unburned wood or coal energy. It is highly combustible and poses a serious fire hazard to your home because it can cause flames to vault up the chimney to the upper floors of your home and the roof. Thick creosote (level 3 creosote) requires special equipment and techniques to remove. You need chimney technicians armed with more than brooms to take care of this problem.<\/p>\n
Chimney flue cleaning<\/h3>\n
The flue serves an important safety and comfort function: it allows smoke from a fire to escape out the chimney when it\u2019s open, and it keeps drafts from entering your home when closed. Damage and soot build-up can become a major issue for the flue, and so it\u2019s one of the important components that technicians inspect when they come to clean your chimney.<\/p>\n
Animal removal<\/h3>\n
Mary Poppins<\/i> has some adorable animated animals in it: remember the penguins? However, you don\u2019t want animals getting inside your chimney. Penguins shouldn\u2019t be an issue, but birds, squirrels, chipmunks, and raccoons can create serious hazards. You don\u2019t want to try to \u201csmoke out\u201d animals from your chimney (especially raccoons; this just makes them mad). Rely on technicians to do this job safely. You should also have the technicians install a chimney cap to help prevent this problem from returning in the future.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s something else Mary Poppins<\/i> won\u2019t tell you: how often you should have your chimney inspected and cleaned. We recommend you schedule annual cleaning, even if you don\u2019t use the fireplace often (cracks and animal infiltration can occur regardless of how much use the chimney gets). Contact 2nd Generation Chimneys, Inc. when you want quality chimney sweeping in St. Paul, MN. We can\u2019t sing and dance as well as Dick Van Dyke, but you\u2019ll have a clean and safe fireplace in your home after we leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The romanticized image of the chimney sweep comes to us from the Disney movie Mary Poppins, where we learn that chimney sweeps are always coated from head to toe with soot, know fantastic dance moves, and say \u201cguv\u2019ner\u201d at the end of every sentence. That\u2019s all good to know if you live in a fantasy version of Victorian London. But if you live in contemporary Minnesota, you need to know the more practical side of keeping a chimney clean so you can enjoy it all through the winter in comfort and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[80,200],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chimney-sweeping-and-cleaning","tag-chimney-sweeping","tag-st-paul"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2ndgenerationchimneys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}