Various cleaning procedures and precautions are presented and explained.
A chimney sweep’s brush vs chimney sweeping logs. Do these logs really clean the chimney? I have been cleaning chimneys for 24 years now, and I get this question asked of me several times each year. I cannot speak for the cleaning logs because I have not observed their effect over time, with various degrees of […]
Chimney cleaning in Portland occurs on a year-round basis. You may come across some homeowners who engage in DIY chimney cleaning projects, and you may consider chimney cleaning as an easy task. You could attempt to engage in chimney sweeping by yourself to save money. This kind of approach may end in chimney or […]
Many homeowners would love to have a fireplace. Having a fireplace, however, also means keeping the chimney clean. This is an issue of safety, and you could risk the lives of people in your home if you forget about it. Let’s review why it is so important to keep the chimney clean. Unclean chimneys lead […]
A home is not created in a single day. You may purchase a house but to transform that house into your home takes a lot of hard work and dedication on your part. There are many aspects to which you have to give repeated attention to ensure the safety and security of your family. One […]
The question of whether the creosote sweeping log and products like it actually works comes up from time to time. These products often claim that by burning them for a set amount of time that they can either reduce or prevent the build up of creosote deposits in your chimney. This may help the problem […]
There are two reasons that I like Napolean woodstoves: They heat well and my customers rave about them. They save my customers money. ( Click on photo to enlarge ) We do not have a brick-and-mortar storefront, as we clean and repair chimneys and install woodstoves. We order in our Napolean stoves as needed. This […]
In the ancient days we had to use ridged stainless steel pipe and very heavy-duty flex pipe to line a chimney. The liner would frequently get caught up in bends in the chimney system and cause us much grief. We install liners to make chimneys safe, and as mechanical code requires when installing to […]
We recently cleaned a fireplace chimney that had a woodstove insert with no liner. This is as bad as it gets:
Yes, there are three levels of chimney inspections. The National Fire Protection Association is the industry standard code. Specifically, NFPA-211 goes over these levels exhaustively. The NFPA makes this data available to the public for free. You will have to set up an account, but it is not a big deal. Click the link below […]