The warmth and atmosphere from a roaring, crackling fire are tough to beat. However, while you’re enjoying the coziness, there’s a hidden danger you may overlook — creosote. This black, sticky substance can coat the inside of your fireplace and… Read More
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The Benefits of Annual Chimney Cleaning
A cozy fireplace is a beloved feature in many homes, providing warmth, ambiance, and a sense of comfort during the cold winter months. However, to keep your fireplace in optimal working condition and ensure your family’s safety, prioritizing regular chimney… Read More
How to Keep Animals Out of Your Chimney
It is easy to forget that you have a chimney during the summer. After all, you’re not using it, and aside from possibly having routine yearly maintenance and chimney inspections or making time for some much-needed repairs, you don’t have… Read More
What Happens If You Go Too Long Without Cleaning Your Chimney?
A fireplace can add tremendous value to your home, both in the literal monetary value and in terms of comfort and family memories. However, proper maintenance is critical to ensure your chimney works as safely today as it will in… Read More
Why Summer is the Best Time for Chimney Repairs
Summer is many people’s favorite time of year, and why not? The kids love it because they get to be out of school, it’s the season of vacations for many people, and the weather is hot, hot, hot (perfect for… Read More
Tips for Childproofing Your Fireplace
Fireplaces are a great idea when you want to make your home a comfortable, welcoming place. However, there are special considerations that you need to make when you have pets or young children who might not understand fireplace safety. Beyond… Read More
Benefits of Preventative Maintenance for Your Chimney
Your chimney is one of the most important parts of your fireplace. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to use your fireplace safely. The chimney funnels all of the dangerous smoke up and away from the home so that you… Read More
Why You Should Avoid DIY Chimney Cleaning
No one wants to add another chore to their list of household duties, but chimney cleaning is a pretty important one. If ignored, the natural combustion processes that go on within your chimney will eventually create creosote and other contaminants… Read More
What to Know About Efflorescence on Your Chimney
An important distinction: Evanescence refers to a band whose (lone) early-00’s hit smacks ever-so-representatively of that particular era in pop-rock’s proclivity for unflinchingly self-serious cheese—or, granted, as a “common” noun, to the (presumably eponymous) word basically meaning transient/fleeting. Efflorescence, however,… Read More
Preparing Your Fireplace for Summer
Welcome to summer! We passed the unofficial first day of summer last week and kids are getting ready to get out of school soon. The odds are good that the state of your fireplace is probably the furthest thing from… Read More