Chimney Sweep in Franklin, TN

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Each business sets its own service area. This page shows chimney sweep businesses covering Franklin and Williamson County, including Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, Murfreesboro, Hendersonville and more.

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Most often: smoke comes back into the room; sharp smell from the fireplace; birds or animals in the chimney; water staining round the hearth. You do not need to know the name of the fix to ask — describe the symptom in your enquiry and the chimney sweep will tell you what it is.

Annually if you burn wood regularly, and inspected annually regardless of use. The standard guidance is inspection every year and sweeping when creosote reaches a measurable thickness. A chimney unused for a season still needs inspecting, because the common problems in unused chimneys are animal nests, a cracked crown and water damage rather than soot.

Draught failure. The usual causes are a closed or partly blocked damper, creosote or a nest restricting the flue, a cold flue that has not been warmed before lighting, or negative pressure in a tightly sealed house pulling air down the chimney. A flue that is too short or too narrow for the fireplace opening will do it every time and is a design problem rather than a maintenance one.

Creosote is the tarry residue from wood smoke condensing on the flue walls, and it is highly flammable — it is what burns in a chimney fire. It builds up fastest from burning unseasoned wood or running slow smouldering fires. In its hardest glazed form it cannot be brushed off and needs chemical treatment or removal, which is one reason annual inspection matters.

Creosote reacting with humidity. It is worst in warm damp weather, and it is a sign there is more residue in the flue than there should be. A sweep is the actual fix. Reducing negative pressure in the house helps in the meantime — the smell comes down the chimney because air is being pulled that direction rather than up it.

Yes, though less often than wood. Gas appliances still vent combustion products, and the flue can be obstructed by nests, debris or a deteriorating liner. Annual inspection checks the venting, the logs and the gas connection. The risk with a blocked gas flue is carbon monoxide rather than a chimney fire, which makes it no less serious.

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