featured How to Keep Your Fireplace Safe and Maintained
Everyone loves to curl up next to a warm and cozy fire during the winter, but the fire isn’t warm and cozy if you haven’t properly maintained your fireplace. A safe and clean fireplace is a warm and cozy fireplace, bottom line. So, how do you keep up on your fireplace maintenance? Lucky for you, we’ve compiled a list of tips and...
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Spring Cleaning Tips for Chimney Owners
Spring is the perfect time to clean your chimney. During the winter months when you were enjoying the fire with your family, lots of gunk has been building up on the inside of your chimney. While this type of cleaning should be left to professionals, some people would like to take a do it yourself approach to this task. There are a...
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Preparing Your Chimney for the Off Season
After winter, when the temperatures begin to rise, you’ll notice you do not have to light as many fires as you did, so there’s really no need to keep your chimney open. While you don’t need to clean your fireplace as soon as that last bit of snow melts, it’s a good idea to add it to your spring cleaning list that...
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What you need to know to Prevent Chimney Fires
Chimneys always seem like a relatively easy concept, right? You put the wood in, make sure the flue is open, and then light the fire. Well, there’s actually a lot more that’s going on that makes it a far more complex concept that deals with the oxidation of carbon, water, draft induced by the change in temperature, and vaporization. All of these...
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Tips For Keeping Your Fireplace Clean
Nothing makes the holiday's feel more like the holiday's than gathering with your family around the roaring fire in the fireplace. However, getting your fireplace prepped for the winter months can be an easy task for some, but for most it's not. Before you fire it up, it's important to either hire a professional to do an inspection all the way up...
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A Basic Guide to Chimney Cleaning
It is a common occurrence with fireplaces for them to get quite dirty over the course of time, and this is because fireplaces tend to emit a lot of natural debris that ends up staining or clogging the chimney walls. To avoid this from happening, one thing that you can do is install chimney liner kits in the chimney. This will allow...
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Looking after your chimney!
It is sometimes difficult to know how to properly maintain things when you are not an expert on that product. To know how to look after your chimney though, you don’t need to be an expert, you just need to be well informed. Your chimney should be cleaned regularly, about once a year on average, but if it is used a great...
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