Chimney Maintenance
Maintaining your fireplace and chimney.
Chimney Sweep Bird Issues
By Robert Berry, MCS#47 Birds in chimneys have, and will always be part of a chimney sweep’s experience. For a midwestern chimney sweep, bird issues start in early spring. Every year, it seems bird removal from chimneys becomes a hot ticket item overnight! The phones...Stop Birds Nesting in a Direct Vent Fireplace
It is important to stop birds nesting in a direct vent fireplace exhaust because what seems like a small (kinda cute) thing, could be a big problem for homeowners. Here’s a recent example: Birds got into a customer’s vent, nested, and ended up costing them the...
How to Build a Firewood Storage Shed
Please see the UPDATED post for 2021: 10 Best Firewood Storage Ideas. It includes new updated shed plans and tons of bonus material! During the NCSG 2019 (a Chimney Sweep Convention) we came across BurnWise (a Program of the U.S. EPA). This is a wonderful resource...Flue Fire Damage Demonstrated
FACT: an average of 22,000 chimney related fires happen in the United States annually. …but all of them preventable. Watch this Chimney Flue Fire Simulation Creosote is combustible and a cause of chimney fires. The creosote builds up on the walls inside a...