A Clean Chimney Is A Safe Chimney

hvac ducts Once you have finished organizing and cleaning your pantry, refrigerator and freezer, it’s time for your deep-cleaning workout! Washing your kitchen cupboards, baseboards, and appliances can take the place of a 30-minute workout. You burn about the same amount of calories mopping the floor or scrubbing appliances, as you would walking for 30 minutes. Also, it’s so rewarding to see the benefits of a bright and shiny kitchen when you are finished! Add some bright spring flowers and some new kitchen towels or placemats and you have a brand new kitchen look. After this, you can’t help but want to cook at home!

Sometimes repairs are needed in order to keep the chimney and fireplace in good working condition. The majority of the repairs can be completed by a qualified chimney sweep or other fire place contractor.

As a home owner, you must be aware of these things. This is not to say that you should not hire a chimney professional to clean and keep up your chimney. It is imperative that you have an annual scheduled Chimney Cleaning and inspection of both your furnace flue chimney and your fireplace chimney. There may be 2 separate chimneys with single flues or they may very well be one chimney with 2 or 3 separate flues with in it.

Another major concern is a moderate to heavy build up of creosote which is an immediate red flag indicating that the flue has not been maintained properly. Creosote is commonly referred to as soot, but also appears in other forms within a chimney flue where it is not readily visible. As the wood is consumed by the fire, soot and unburned carbon based by-products will be vented up through the chimney flue. As the temperature cools the higher the ash and soot rise, condensation takes place at the walls of the flue. This soot and ash then becomes deposited on the walls of the flue as soot, black crunchy material or a tar like substance, all of which are very combustible.

There’s another consideration that more and more people are making and that is a desire to do things more naturally. The good news is, natural cleaning products will do the job (I’m more of a natural gal and I describe the products I use later – you may be surprised!).

The excessive build-up of the highly combustible creosote, for instance, is responsible for many chimney fire incidents. Also, depending on the situation, a professional sweep may find out that the chimney pipe has become unsafe overtime from normal wear and tear and might need correctly aligned. Or maybe the chimney cap has disappeared or worn out. Or the flue is badly damaged or wrongly fitted.

In your freezer, throw away any unidentifiable products or ones that are covered with freezer burn. When you are at the grocery store, stock up on lean protein sources like chicken breasts, fresh fish, and Here’s more info regarding Fireplace Odors check out the website. 100% ground turkey breast. This way, when you fire-up the grill for your first BBQ of the season you’ll be well prepared!

hvac ducts Ok, lets start at the bottom and work our way up. A broom is obviously a basic for our cleaning supplies. Again there are an amazing amount of choices, but essentially they boil down to natural bristles or artificial bristles. The artificial bristles work great on kitchen floors and if your purchase a broom with angled bristles you will be able to get into corners to pull out food and other dirt easily. Along with a broom a mop is a good basic choice. Many of the Swiffer home products make great choices, they are especially friendly at being able to throw the mop head in the garbage and help remove odors and germs that are typically trapped in standard mop heads.

In fact, you probably have things in your house right now that can be turned into kitchen cleaning supplies very easily. You may also want to buy some commercial products, depending on your situation, but you can make most of them at home for pennies. Let’s take a look.

Waste management is critical to the general cleanliness in the kitchen. Sprinkle any kitchen garbage with phenyl and cover it. Dispose of garbage as soon as practically possible to discourage infestation by pests such as mice.

Your kitchen cleaning routine should always include moping as this not only helps to keep your feet and socks clean when you’re moving around the kitchen, but it’ll also help eliminate any potential microorganism and other bacteria that might be dwelling in the crevices of the kitchen flooring. It is advisable for you to use floor moping detergent with hot water since this combination works best to not only kill off any tiny living bacteria on the floor, but also helps to loosen up any stuck dirt. To get the moping done much quicker, you can invest in a steam powered mop. These are versatile and can work on pretty much any type of kitchen flooring.

Another gaffe can be placing the HVAC registers near windows and doors. This is especially prevalent in split level homes or newer homes with large bay or front facing windows. Often times there is no other place to put the register, so it goes in front of the window. As long as the window is new and covered (and insulated well) most of the time this shouldn’t be a problem. But down the road, as the window insulation fails, this can be a major source of energy loss.