Home Safe Hearth & Chimney's Blog
If you have moved into a newly built home, you may have a prefabricated (or prefab) chimney instead of a traditional masonry chimney. This type of chimney has grown in popularity over the past couple of decades, so it is more common to find a prefab chimney in homes that have been recently constructed. It is important to realize the differences between your new prefab chimney from a masonry chimney so that you are using your new fireplace properly and safely. Read more…?
Nothing is quite as rewarding at the end of a long winter day as coming home and thawing out in front of a roaring fire. For some of us, nothing less than a natural wood fire in a traditional fireplace will suffice; nothing is a substitute for the crackling and popping or the aroma that it gives off. Others of us, however, just care about the roaring fire part of the scenario and could care less about anything else. Read more…?
We won’t try to sugarcoat it: A chimney leak is a frustrating, sometimes expensive problem to have, which is why, at Home Safe Hearth & Chimney, we spend a lot of time talking to our clients about leak prevention and what we can do to help. Read more…?
Maintenance for your heating system begins and ends with your chimney. Understanding the basics of chimney sweeping will help you make better decisions for your home and family. Read more…?
When you talk about draft in general, it can mean all sorts of things. Draft can be your initial input in writing that still needs proofreading but draft can also talk about the weather where the coldness in the air lingers. But here, we’re talking about chimney draft and everything there is to know about it. Read more…?
Have you ever given a thought to what is happening inside of your chimney when you have a problem? This overview should answer some of your questions about the processes at work, and explain the science of combustion. Read more…?
Why do You Need to Waterproof Your Chimney?
Sometimes, this dilemma is taken lightly or is underestimated in most cases, not knowing the harmful effects it can give to your chimney and your fireplace in general. Read more…?
Would you go and have a thorough check-up of your body with a doctor that hasn’t finished medical school? Would you trust the legal advice of a lawyer who hasn’t passed the bar exam? Of course, you wouldn’t. It is equally important for the safety and well-being of you, your family and your home, to hire a certified sweep to clean and inspect your chimney. Read more…?
Do you feel air coming into your home via the fireplace? Does your house smell of smoke a lot of the time? Do you have a hard time simply getting a fire started? If you can answer yes to one, two, or all three of these questions, you very well could have a draft problem. Before you can fix a problem, it helps to figure out how it developed in the first place. Read more…?
Even if you failed anatomy in high school, there’s no reason you can’t learn a thing or two about what makes your chimney… a chimney. Let’s take a look at it from Santa’s perspective and start on the rooftop and learn about the anatomy of your chimney. Read more…?
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