Those who regularly utilize wood-burning stoves and fireplaces should have their chimneys swept at least once a year.
If you have a slow wood-burning stove, this rule more strictly applies because the soot and creosote creates the
perfect environment for chimney fires.
Chimney-sweeping and chimney-sweeping logs
Advertising of this product makes us believe the usage of this log was authorised by the ULC
(Underwriters Laboratories of Canada) which is totally untrue.
The article 2.6.1.4 of the CNPI (National Code of prevention of fires of Canada)
requires fireplaces be annually inspected and that they are so often swept as necessary.
So what is chimney-sweeping? The dictionary defines the action to sweep as follows:
«clean by scraping to clear the soot from fireplaces, pipes".
The Association des professionnels en chauffage (A.P.C.) does not deny that it
is possible this log can help "to dislodge" the creosote off the walls of the fireplace during the brushing.
However, the A.P.C. does not advise its use as a substitute from the traditional brushing made
with a brush because this log does not allow:
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To scrape the walls of the fireplace; |
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To remove leaves, bird's nests, carcasses of animals and other fragments which could block the fireplace; |
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To inspect the fireplace; nor |
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To remove the creosote from the evacuation system. |
For consumers’ safety, the A.P.C. recommends to proceed
to a complete brushing of their combustion devices’
evacuation system and to only request chimney-sweeping
companies accredited by the A.P.C.
