Cleaning For Your Fireplace

When spring comes, you must not overlook your fireplace throughout spring cleaning. Cleansing your fireplace yearly is a must to keep it in healthy working order. Let's have a look at how to spring clean your fireplace as well as what items will make it easier on you.

Cleansing the Chimney

To start the spring cleaning process for your fireplace begins with the chimney flue. The majority of fireplaces have a masonry chimney or a metal chimney flue that is conveniently cleaned with a chimney clean brush and rod system. Before you acquire a brush and also rod system ensure to gauge the whole chimney. Start by gauging the flue opening and afterward gauge the height of the chimney, this dimension is to make sure that you purchase sufficient poles to cleanse the entire chimney run.

Choose a chimney brush that will certainly fit your flue opening up precisely. Sometimes you may require to buy a brush that is a little bit larger than the flue opening and also cut it down to fit. You do not desire the brush bristles to be larger than the flue due to the fact that it will certainly be hard to push and pull the brush via the chimney. And also you do not desire the brush to be more than a quarter of an inch smaller sized than the flue since it will not appropriately scrape the sides of the chimney flue.

The simplest way to cleanse a straight chimney run is to cleanse from the top down. You will certainly need to climb on top of your roof covering for this cleansing approach. Start cleaning by linking the brush and also 2 sizes of chimney poles. Place the brush right into the flue opening and also start pushing and pulling the cleaning brush with the flue up until you have come to the end of the rod reach. Include extra poles as required to reach to the bottom of the chimney run and then begin drawing the poles out, disconnecting them one at a time while removing them from the flue.

Cleansing the Firebox

As soon as you have the chimney cleaned proceed with the springtime cleaning procedure with the firebox by eliminating every one of the ashes. To do this you must have a mop, shovel, ash bucket, as well as ash vacuum cleaner available.

Start by scooping as much of the ashes out of the firebox as possible with a shovel. After that use the mop to purge the tiny ash bits that were left behind. Sweep them into the shovel and discard them into an ash bucket to remove them without making a bigger mess.

Once you have gotten as much of the ashes out as possible with the broom and also shovel use an ash vacuum to get rid of the ash fragments that are left in the edges as well as joints of the firebox. An ash vacuum cleaner will certainly get the job done without launching a dust cloud right into your residence.