How do I clean a chimney in a private house furnace?

Private house, fireplace, nature. Perhaps this is the dream of most people, it's so cool, sit down in front of the fireplace with a fragrant coffee or with a favorite book and indulge in a relaxing holiday. But no matter how beautiful it all sounds, the fireplace needs to be cleaned, not only the fireplace, but also the chimney. Therefore, those who are a happy owner of a fireplace or a stove, should know how to clean a chimney in a private house furnace in order to really enjoy their availability, rather than expose yourself to the risk of poisoning with gases. In this article, we will teach you this, and also tell you about the reasons for the chimney clogging and other useful points.

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Cleaning chimney pipes using folk methods

Many stoves use traditional methods of cleaning, because cleaning the chimneys is dangerous. And you can clean the chimney in the furnace of a private house in more harmless ways.

Rock salt

The most common method is to pour rock salt on wood during the combustion process. You should know that this salt is most often used to prevent the appearance of soot.

Potato cleaning

Thoroughly pour your fireplace or stove, then put a large number of skins of potatoes into the fire. The released steam will decompose the soot, which has got to the chimney.

With all this, heavy pieces will fall into the bottom of the stove, which will need to be cleaned.

Important! Cleaning with potato peelings is not complete. They are suitable only as a tool that helps soften soot and makes it easy to lag behind the surface of the pipes.

After carrying out such preparatory work, it is necessary to clean the chimney in the furnace with an ordinary manual method.

Aspen wood

If you have aspen wood, clean the stove and chimney can be quite simple. To do this, just burn a small amount of armor osinovyh firewood.

This method is somewhat unsafe because cleaning is performed by obtaining a very high temperature in the chimney itself, during which the soot begins to burn.

Important! If you plan to use this method, make sure that your chimney can accurately withstand greater loads, and not be damaged after this procedure.

If there is a large layer of soot deposits in the pipe, we recommend not taking any risks, but using a safer and easier way.

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How can the chimney be cleaned using manual methods?

The chimney sweeper, who has extensive experience, will clean the chimney pipe qualitatively and quickly, and also can audit the entire structure for the formation of any cracks, assess the operating condition of the appliance, the presence of traction.

If you decide to clean the chimney yourself in the furnace of a private house, the correct sequence of work will be as follows:

1. At the very beginning you must close all the holes. This must be done so that the soot can not fly into the room.
2. Also close the oven door. If the oven is open, it is recommended to hang a wet cloth on the furnace.
3. Clean the chimney only in dry weather. There must be no wind during cleaning. Without fail use insurance.
4. If your stove has not been in operation for a long time, first of all make sure that there are no bird nests inside the structure. In the event that you get a nest or garbage from the top of the structure you can not, push it down, with the help of improvised tools.
5. Clean the chimney in case the soot layer on the surface of its walls is more than 2 mm. If the soot layer is smaller, you may not perform a complete cleaning. In this case, use alternative methods.
6. If the soot layer is rather dense, first clean it with a scraper. Only after this use a brush or ruff.

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Remove the clogs with the

core During the cleaning process inside the chimney design, clogs can be found that will prevent the tools from moving further. The blockage can be in the form of any garbage or a brick that fell out of the masonry. In any situation it is necessary to clean the chimney in the furnace of a private house.

Important! In the event that the chimney has been in operation for a long time, the probability of finding such garbage in it, is quite large.

It is necessary to pierce the block with a heavy core of steel, fixed with a carbine on the rope. Throw it in the center of the hole in your chimney design, while avoiding touching the inner surface of the pipe wall.

Metal brush with a load

The core can be used not only to eliminate congestion, but also as a weighting agent for the brush or brush. Ershik with the load descends into the chimney, while he not only rips off the soot, but also eliminates extraneous objects. Thus, you will be able to clean the chimney in the furnace of a private house.

Cable, brush, and also the core connect with each other using carabiners, which allow you to change the design, removing from it any section.

Important! Choose the size of the core that will be able to cover at least 2/3 of the diameter of the chimney.

Instead of the core, you can not use sport weights or any other objects that have a large weight and a shifted center of gravity. These objects can be turned over, and then permanently stuck in the duct of the chimney.

Important! If the core can not remove jammed objects, dismantle the whole chimney design.

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Metal brush

Open kilns that have a direct chimney can be cleaned not from the roof itself, but from the stove side. To do this, you will be forced to use brushes made of metal on an elongated handle.

After you have finished cleaning the oven, open all openings as neatly as possible to clean and remove any existing dirt with a brush and scoop or a spoon that is designed for soot.

Important! Using a home vacuum cleaner, you can eliminate all the residues of soot. In the end, open and clean the firebox, and do not forget about the ash-pit.

The smoke flap also needs cleaning. In order to do this work, use a vacuum cleaner or a brush for the fireplace.

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How to clean the chimney using chemicals?

The most effective and common chemicals that will help you clean the chimney in a private home furnace are as follows.

Composition from deposit

This powder is intended for cleaning the entire chimney structure. Burn it with fuel, not pouring out of the package. The consumption of this product is normalized: 100-160 g of powder will need 1 ton of fuel.

Cominace

In one package there are 5 packages of 15 g. This amount will be enough for about 3 months of preventive procedures.

Important!"Коминичек" is recommended to use in case, if a layer of soot is small. The maximum layer thickness should be 2 mm.

The tool allows you to clean the chimney in the furnace of a private house from soot and soot. With the help of it, a reaction will be triggered, during which the soot will turn into a certain oxide - it burns even at low temperatures.

This tool is used quite easily: 1 put the sachet in the furnace straight into the burning fuel, then close the door. Due to the effect of high temperature, the pellets will emit elements that are capable of dissolving soot on the surface of the furnace walls, as well as inside the chimney structure.

Important! Before you buy any chemical, carefully read the instruction manual and the manufacturer's recommendations regarding the use of funds in heating devices of various types. Not all funds are global, some are allowed to be used only in closed fireboxes or wood-burning furnaces.

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How to understand that it's time to clean the oven?

In order to understand, it's time to clean the chimney in the furnace of a private house:

1. Pay attention to the smoke, because changing its color indicates that it is time to clean the oven.
2. Check the traction - it becomes very bad, and the stove burns badly. So the chimney has already hammered.

Important! If the oven is used correctly, the smoke color should be transparent or white. But if the chimney is dirty, then the color begins to be black, and it becomes darker and darker. This means that the soot has settled over the whole surface of the chimney and does not allow it to function as it should.

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Reasons for the accumulation of soot

There are quite a number of reasons why soot and other combustion residues accumulate on the surface of the walls of the smoke extraction structure:

• The technology of laying the structural components of the furnace, fireplace or chimney is violated.
• Incorrect operation of these structures. Misuse refers to the burning of raw fuel in furnaces, which contains a large number of resins, as well as other wastes from the chemical industry, for example: polyethylene, plastic and other similar household waste.
• Poor material that was used during the installation of the chimney design.
• Inside the chimney structure, excess objects in the form of small birds, insects, debris, which is carried by the wind.
• No protective umbrella on the top of the pipe.
• During the laying of the chimney, the parameters of the internal lumen must be observed. If they are less than normative, as a consequence, they will eventually become burnt waste in the form of soot. And this, accordingly, reduces the draft - to kindle the oven or the fireplace becomes problematic enough.
• The residues in the middle of the inflow pipe also accelerate the clogging of the chimney.

Now you know everything about the care of chimney structures, and you will not have much difficulty keeping them clean and tidy.