The smoke leaking in your basement fireplace can only have come from one source - the upstairs fireplace. How it happened to travel down the chimney and get out may have been the result of ...

Smoke has to push the heavy, cold air up and out of the chimney. An oversized flue liner can make this a difficult process. The minimum chimney height for a 36-inch-wide fireplace should be 21.5 feet.

Wood-burning fireplaces produce smoke and gasses—byproducts that cling to the chimney’s liner as soot and creosote. A dirty chimney draws slower, leading to smoke in the house. Even worse, ...

If Mike Ruehrdanz had a dime for every time a client whistled “Chim Chim Cheree,” he would be a rich man, he said. But after more than two decades as a chimney sweep for Lindemann Chimney Co ...

Smoke Like a Chimney, but Safely. November 18, 2005. ... In houses with wood-burning fireplaces, a masonry chimney will usually contain two separate paths upward to the roof: ...

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 ...

The fireplace police descended on the Bay Area on Wednesday. For the first time ever, residential fires are illegal under a new law, passed in July, that bans home burning on winter season Spare ...

Luanne Wiley is dreading the onset of winter. Instead of looking forward to crisp mornings, crystal snowflakes blowing about and the sight of Pikes Peak covered in white powder, Wiley ...

Ram the cleaning brush up and down several times in a small section of the flue to remove chimney soot. Use a bright flashlight to check your work before moving on to the next section. Start the ...