Stove or fireplace can be called the heart of any home. Together with the heat spreads from them warmth and comfort in every corner of the home. However, in order to maintain safety and efficiency of such heating, dymoprohodnye channels require periodic cleaning. You can entrust this work to professionals or use bought-in chemicals, there is another method: clean the chimney soot is possible and popular way. Knowing the causes of active education and soot settling on the inside of the pipe, it is possible to reduce this process to a minimum, and then to the chimney sweep will have to resort less frequently.
Reasons for chimney blockage and the need for its periodic cleaning
When Teplodayuschaya begins noticeably worse flare and smoke at the kindling through the existing holes penetrates into the house, most likely reason is clogged chimney. It may be foreign objects, such as birds, nests or their retinue brick debris from the collapsing tube. More often - a flake of soot and soot deposited inside the chimney.
Soot deposits with regular use of stove heating is inevitable, but there are two reasons why the process is more intense:
- The design of the chimney and the material from which it is made,
- What goes into the furnace regularly.
In the first case, inaccuracies and flaws masonry obstruct smoke, the soot deposition on the walls increases significantly. It contributes to this:
- Narrowed flues,
- excessive tortuosity,
- excess solution on the inner surface,
- poor insulation, and as a result, the accumulation of condensate.
The most durable material is metal and asbestos preferable for pipe manufacturing. Ceramics and brick susceptible to degradation, and therefore will reduce the formed roughness of smoke permeability and increase the deposition on the walls of the combustion products. The same applies to poorly prepared solution: dries it cracks appearing bumps serve as a place of soot deposits.
Raw wood, especially increased tar, polyethylene, plastic items and also aggravate the situation.
As a result of the narrowing of the lumen:
- Hampered by the smoke, and it means the harmful gas comes into the house, causing intoxication tenants
- There is probability of ignition of the accumulated soot in the channels, and this is a fire hazard.
When the degree of contamination is not critical to combat deposits may be by burning in the furnace acquired sales network of special preparations or use popularly known means for cleaning flues.
If the deposited soot thickness is greater than 5 cm, then the numerous experiments of owners of private houses do are unlikely to succeed without the brushes and scrapers.
Effective national ways chimney cleaning
Well proven means of the "Jolly Chimney Sweep," "Kominichek", "Sazhinet". Burning in the furnace, the resulting products are associated with the existing deposits, loosening them. Further, emission of smoke emitted outwardly flake formation or deposited on the bottom of the channel.
Similarly, when the soot combustion linked and other "natural" products.
Potato peelings
The smell of fried potatoes are not always the result of cooking dinner. It has long been known that throwing in a burning oven potato peels can achieve cleaning of the chimney. So if there is nobody to feed waste, the best use for potato peels - burning it in the furnace. The vapors formed, containing starch, sooty link layers, causing it fall away from the channel walls. Flakes with the smoke can escape more than one day after the procedure.
Salt
The salt should be poured on the dry wood laid kindling. In this case, less soot deposited on the walls dymovyvodyaschih channels, narrowing of the lumen.
Using this method most suitable for the prevention and "heavy" cases, not effective.
Naphthalene
One tablet of this material sufficient to reduce deposition of salient tar formation during firing.
Due to the explosion of a chemical compound with the method applied ostarozhny!
logs
Special combustible mass, mixed with the chemical compounds formed in the form of logs, which are periodically necessary to lay in an oven at kindling. The cleaning effect of such a method is different depending on the manufacturer and the composition of them used.
Folk remedies may be mentioned the use of aspen or alder wood. Having a high heat, such a material causes soot burnout, plastered inside the pipe is the essence of the following method.
Combustion of soot
Not every oven withstand such a test. Pre necessary to check the integrity of the chimney, since in its abuse can result in fire. Further:
- It laid vysokogoryuchego large amount of wood material (aspen, alder, oak)
- It ensures maximum oxygen supply through open ash pit.
At a temperature of about 6000Since there is a fire soot accumulated in the pipe - a kind of self-cleaning deposits.
Walnut shells
Not often this material is available to tenants in large quantities. But its burning in the furnace allows for release of large quantities of heat from the resin and purified chimney internal surface by its burnout.
mechanical cleaning
The need to clean the pipes by means of various devices existed since the advent furnaces. Brushes and scrapers of various designs are still the main tools chimney.
Mechanical and manual cleaning can be carried out without the help of professionals. This can be done either from above - through the pipe, either from below - through the chimney base. If necessary, they can be employed both.
In order to avoid soot spilling onto the floor while cleaning all the holes better close cloth. Upon completion of the main works is good to use a vacuum cleaner with the fireplace cleaning function.
It is believed that the chimney to be cleaned at least once a year need. Hold it possible, for example, before the heating season or after its completion. The intensity of the furnace operation and the elapsed time between cleanings affect the scope "of the harvest." This may be a bucket, a bag or two.
Traditional brush with metal bristles can be replaced by home-made devices, the effectiveness of which is not worse:
- Plastic bottle with cuts simulating bristles fitted on the hose,
- Spruce paws, tied to a long stick,
- Veniks planted on the cable or other likeness of the elongated handle.
In the case when the chimney is cleaned from top to bottom cleaning devices intelligently mount not on the handle, and tied in a rope with a weight at the end. Rope length should be slightly more than the channel length of the load weight - about 10 kg.
Safety precautions when working on the roof
Work carried out on the roof requires not only skill, but also the compliance with rules of personal safety. Nobody familiarize them by hand, but the price of life is perhaps the best motivation to listen to them.
- You can not deal with the cleaning of a rainy and / or windy weather,
- The rope tied at one end to the belt - just fear device from falling,
- For movement on the roof using roofing ladder
- Inadmissible takes work intoxicated or under the influence of drugs inhibiting activity.
Recommendations for prevention of accumulation of soot in the chimney
As any health problems better prevent and excessive accumulation of soot, which requires much time and effort for cleaning, it is better to avoid altogether.
First of all, it concerns what material is used for heating. Reduce the amount deposited on the inner walls of the combustion of soot can be excluded in the furnace:
- Raw wood (with a moisture content over 20%),
- Resinous wood materials (oily combustion products contribute to excessive deposits)
- Household waste (plastic bags, disposable tableware and other pla
Problems of poor initial construction of the chimney can only be solved disassembly and new masonry. Only professionalism on the stage of planning and manufacturing of furnace will help to avoid problems in its further operation.
Under fascinating crackling in the fireplace and the touch pourable heat waves forgotten all concerns associated with maintaining normal operation of this wonderful heating device. Like any organism, even if not living, it requires regular care about yourself, presenting in response to trouble-free operation. Armed with traditional methods of cleaning the chimney, you can save on purchased funds and extend the time between the mechanical cleaning.
