Having a road flare on hand is a necessity to help prevent chimney fires, he says. He used one a few weeks ago to prevent damage to his home.
Winter officially began Wednesday, and more homeowners across the region are lighting their fireplaces for the first time since last season.
Chimney cleanings are helpful to reduce soot buildup for a wood fireplace, but there can be holes and cracks inside the chimney where fire can escape into the chimney cavity and potentially drywall of the home. So a camera inspection is just as important as getting it cleaned.The number-one thing is making sure you have dry wood. When you’re buying wood from a landscaper or a wood provider, it’s not always fully dry.
There’s a chemical you can spray into your fireplace that converts sticky, glazed creosote into a powdery, less flammable creosote. It’s called Cre-Away chimney cleaning powder, and we recommend it to our customers who use their fireplaces multiple times a week just as a precaution. If there’s a fire burning inside your chimney, that typically sounds like a freight train going through your house. It’s very scary. There’s usually also a fire going in the fireplace when this happens. So you take the road flare, engage it by flicking it kind of like a match, and then throw it into the fire and close the doors.
From inside my house, I can tell the fire’s out. Luckily, I installed a stainless steel tube inside the chimney, which is built to withstand multiple chimney fires. So I knew there were no holes in my chimney where fire could get into the drywall.
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