Our home has an unusual feature—one that’s become one of my favorite things about the space. At the very center of the house, between the kitchen and the dining and living rooms, stands a massive ...

Dear Tyler: Your smoking wood-burning fireplace in your living room unfortunately is a very common problem. Once a room has filled with smoke from a fireplace, it is difficult to ever completely ...

It may be often overlooked, but it's vitally important to clean your fireplace. How often you have it maintained depends on ...

He says masonry fireplaces should be cleaned when there’s more than an 8th of an inch of soot built up. And pre-fabricated ...

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The 2023 wildfire season has been one for the history books in the United States, particularly in Washington state. It’s been so bad that a new study from Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on ...

Q. Tim, I really need your help. I just moved into my new home and have a smoking full masonry fireplace. It’s 55 inches wide and has an arched opening that’s 33.5 inches at the peak of the arch. It ...

DEAR TWO: Your neighbor is a sick woman. She’s complaining about the smoke because when you use the fireplace to heat your ...