Chimney sweeping should be a regular part of your home maintenance that is done every year. While there is a break in the snow here are some things to check on your Chimney:
· Buy a set of chimney rods and brushes at the hardware store. Run the brush down the chimney, using a short up-and-down plunging motion. Some brushes are designed to twist as well. Go back inside the house and use a short chimney brush to clean the flue, which is the pipe that runs between the fireplace and the chimney.
- Check your chimney to make sure it free of debris. Take a moment to cap the chimney or screen it. A cap will keep out animals, leaves, twigs, and rain. Rain entering from the uncovered top, does most of the damage in a chimney by getting into the mortar joints inside the firebox causing them to become weak and deteriorate.
- When a chimney is filled with smoke, not of its own formation, but from the funnel next to it, an easy remedy offers, in covering each funnel with a conical top, or earthen crock, not cylindrical, but a frustum of a cone, by means of which the two openings are separated a few inches, and the cold air or the gust of wind no longer forces the smoke down with them.
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