Fireplaces, Heating Stoves, Flues and Chimneys - Help! Greasy chimney.
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Diggery
02-06-09, 08:10 PM
:alarm:
Thanks for your time. My father-in-law has a commercial property with a restaurant on the ground floor and apartments above (4.) One of those apartments reported fluid leaking down an interior wall, so I took a look and saw it was sticky, or greasy. I realized the location corresponded to the kitchen exhaust hood outlet on the roof, so I went on the roof to check...the chimney up there feels absolutely soaked with grease. My guess is that it's built up and built up and not been cleaned. Now it's seeping through the plaster, the chimney bricks, and pooling enough that it's actually weeping through the damn plaster walls in one of the apartments. The amount of grease required to accomplish this staggers my imagination.
Is it my imagination or is this just a gigantic fire hazard? And who should I call to have such a thing cleaned? I'd do it myself, but (a.) I'd probably get myself killed lowering into the chimney, and (b.) there are fire prevention codes that it must be cleaned to.
Advice is appreciated.
Thanks for your time. My father-in-law has a commercial property with a restaurant on the ground floor and apartments above (4.) One of those apartments reported fluid leaking down an interior wall, so I took a look and saw it was sticky, or greasy. I realized the location corresponded to the kitchen exhaust hood outlet on the roof, so I went on the roof to check...the chimney up there feels absolutely soaked with grease. My guess is that it's built up and built up and not been cleaned. Now it's seeping through the plaster, the chimney bricks, and pooling enough that it's actually weeping through the damn plaster walls in one of the apartments. The amount of grease required to accomplish this staggers my imagination.
Is it my imagination or is this just a gigantic fire hazard? And who should I call to have such a thing cleaned? I'd do it myself, but (a.) I'd probably get myself killed lowering into the chimney, and (b.) there are fire prevention codes that it must be cleaned to.
Advice is appreciated.
twelvepole
02-07-09, 02:35 AM
Call a chimney professional. If there is a commercial code and to meet all health codes, then the property needs to meet all codes.
Diggery
02-08-09, 07:57 PM
:rolleyes:
There is in fact a commercial fire safety code that this applies to, something I actually mentioned. I had posted in the hope that someone with practical experience with such a thing might know definitively who I should call, as it could be anyone from chimney pros to vent and hood specialists to air duct cleaning specialists, to who knows. The detective work continues.
There is in fact a commercial fire safety code that this applies to, something I actually mentioned. I had posted in the hope that someone with practical experience with such a thing might know definitively who I should call, as it could be anyone from chimney pros to vent and hood specialists to air duct cleaning specialists, to who knows. The detective work continues.