6 Things To Do This Winter To Save An Insurance Claim and Maybe Save Your Life . Heres No 2

6 Things To Do This Winter - To Save An Insurance Claim and Maybe Save Your Life . Heres No 2
By Graham Hodgson

SWEEP CHIMNEYS

A clean chimney is essential for safety and efficiency. Remember, the main purpose of a chimney is to vent the products of combustion from your home and remove the waste gases from your stove or open fire,and dispatch them to the outside world. Regularly check it for cracks and obstructions. An effective chimney is an important part of any successful wood-burning system or normal fireplace. Whatever fuel you burn it is important that the chimney is kept clean and you do not allow soot or ash to build up. A build-up of creosote in a chimney is a potential fire hazard. What you are trying to avoid is a chimney fire as whilst they are not necessarily the most serious of fires, they can produce an amazing amount of mess and upheaval.

As a fire burns to warm a house, soot is produced. Wood burning fireplaces especially create soot which must be removed to help avoid chimney fires.The build up of creosote and soot in your fireplace, wood stove and chimney is unavoidable. Each time we use our fireplace,soot collects on the inside of the chimney. Chimneys exhaust a number of substances from your home including smoke, soot, water vapor,and creosote.

THE CHIMNEY SWEEP

Obviously the basic task of a chimney sweep is to clean chimneys. However,there are chimney sweeps and chimney sweeps. It is important that, all flue cleaning and soot removal, is undertaken by a highly skilled and qualified chimney sweep. Nowadays they have very sophisticated equipment,so forget the Mary Poppins image of a chimney sweep. Modern equipment allows them to remove hazardous quantities of creosote from fireplace flues. Modern professional chimney sweep's will always leave your home as well your chimney clean and tidy.

TO FINALISE

If you have an open fire or a multifuel or woodburner, then a chimney sweep, is an essential part of general home maintenance and fireplace safety.Ask for references and then, always check these references before allowing the chimney sweep to work on your house. It is well worth the money to have your chimney swept once a year for your peace of mind and safety.

Graham Hodgson

www.hodgsoninsurance.co.uk

Graham Hodgson has been an insurance broker for over 30 years and in that time dealt with many fire claims

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