Gas Fireplace Cleaning Portland

It can get cool in the rainy winter or evenings in Portland, Oregon.

Did you know that your gas fireplace needs to be serviced every year to ensure safe operation?

If you are like most people you were unaware of this necessity.

It is recommended that a licensed service technician inspects your gas fireplace annually to ensure the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of your gas unit.

For the safety of your home, it is recommended that both gas fireplaces and wood-burning fireplaces including stove inserts and pellet stoves be serviced once a year. Any time you have a live-fire burning in your home you want to make sure everything is performing at optimal efficiency for safety and reliability.

Another thing to consider is that there is a higher risk of having a carbon monoxide issue due to parts wearing out if you do not get your fireplace inspected by a professional every year.

There are a lot of moving parts in gas fireplaces. Servicing those parts to make sure they have been adjusted appropriately and identifying when they need to be replaced will give you peace of mind when using your appliance. Those parts last longer when they are serviced on an annual basis saving you money in the long run.

If you don’t use your gas unit often there is a possibility of bugs and spiders in the venting living and spinning webs. This can cause issues with proper venting and can also be a factor in causing a carbon monoxide issue.

So even though gas fireplaces don’t cause creosote build up like in a wood-burning fireplace there can still be issues with parts needing to be replaced or adjusted. A yearly inspection is the best solution to keeping your family safe from carbon monoxide leaks due to unexpected failure of worn-out parts.

We offer gas fireplace repair and cleaning. Chimcare started years ago as a family-based business. Since then we have grown from one chimney sweep to a crew of licensed technicians offering you home solutions from fireplace inspection, cleaning, installation, and other related services.

Simply call to schedule an inspection in Portlandfor gas fireplace cleaning which will include the safety inspection. This service will give you peace of mind, save you money, and could save your life.

Facts About Portland

Source: https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/portland/oregon/united-states/usor0275

The 2010 census reported the city as 76.1% White (444,254 people), 7.1% Asian (41,448), 6.3% Black or African American (36,778), 1.0% Native American (5,838), 0.5% Pacific Islander (2,919), 4.7% belonging to two or more racial groups (24,437) and 5.0% from other races (28,987).^[99] 9.4% were Hispanic or Latino, of any race (54,840). Whites not of Hispanic origin made up 72.2% of the total population.^[99]

In 1940, Portland’s African-American population was approximately 2,000 and largely consisted of railroad employees and their families.^[102] During the war-time Liberty Ship construction boom, the need for workers drew many blacks to the city. The new influx of blacks settled in specific neighborhoods, such as the Albina district and Vanport. The May 1948 flood which destroyed Vanport eliminated the only integrated neighborhood, and an influx of blacks into the northeast quadrant of the city continued.^[102] Portland’s longshoremen racial mix was described as being “lily-white” in the 1960s, when the local International Longshore and Warehouse Union declined to represent grain handlers since some were black.^[103]

At 6.3%, Portland’s African American population is three times the state average. Over two thirds of Oregon’s African-American residents live in Portland.^[102] As of the 2000 census, three of its high schools (Cleveland, Lincoln and Wilson) were over 70% white, reflecting the overall population, while Jefferson High School was 87% non-white. The remaining six schools have a higher number of non-whites, including blacks and Asians. Hispanic students average from 3.3% at Wilson to 31% at Roosevelt.^[104]

Portland residents identifying solely as Asian Americans account for 7.1% of the population; an additional 1.8% is partially of Asian heritage. Vietnamese Americans make up 2.2% of Portland’s population, and make up the largest Asian ethnic group in the city, followed by Chinese (1.7%), Filipinos (0.6%), Japanese (0.5%), Koreans (0.4%), Laotians (0.4%), Hmong (0.2%), and Cambodians (0.1%).^[106] A small population of Iu Mien live in Portland. Portland has two Chinatowns, with New Chinatown along SE 82nd Avenue with Chinese supermarkets, Hong Kong style noodle houses, dim sum, and Vietnamese phở restaurants.^[107]

With about 12,000 Vietnamese residing in the city proper, Portland has one of the largest Vietnamese populations in America per capita.^[108] According to statistics, there are over 4,500 Pacific Islanders in Portland, making up 0.7% of the city’s population.^[109] There is a Tongan community in Portland, who arrived in the area in the 1970s, and Tongans and Pacific Islanders as a whole are one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the Portland area.^[110]

Portland’s population has been and remains predominantly white. In 1940, whites were over 98% of the city’s population.^[111] In 2009, Portland had the fifth-highest percentage of white residents among the 40 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. A 2007 survey of the 40 largest cities in the U.S. concluded Portland’s urban core has the highest percentage of white residents.^[112] Some scholars have noted the Pacific Northwest as a whole is “one of the last Caucasian bastions of the United States”.^[113] While Portland’s diversity was historically comparable to metro Seattle and Salt Lake City, those areas grew more diverse in the late 1990s and 2000s. Portland not only remains white, but migration to Portland is disproportionately white.^[112][114]

The Oregon Territory banned African American settlement in 1849. In the 19th century, certain laws allowed the immigration of Chinese laborers but prohibited them from owning property or bringing their families.^{[112][115][116]} The early 1920s saw the rapid growth of the Ku Klux Klan, which became very influential in Oregon politics, culminating in the election of Walter M. Pierce as governor.^{[115][116][117]}

The largest influxes of minority populations occurred during World War II, as the African American population grew by a factor of 10 for wartime work.^[112] After World War II, the Vanport flood in 1948 displaced many African Americans. As they resettled, redlining directed the displaced workers from the wartime settlement to neighboring Albina.^{[113][116][118]} There and elsewhere in Portland, they experienced police hostility, lack of employment, and mortgage discrimination, leading to half the black population leaving after the war.^[112]

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical skinhead groups flourished in Portland.^[116] In 1988, Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant, was killed by three skinheads. The response to his murder involved a community-driven series of rallies, campaigns, nonprofits and events designed to address Portland’s racial history, leading to a city considered significantly more tolerant than in 1988 at Seraw’s death.^[119]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon#Demographics

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