At our office, the first freeze comes with a flurry of requests for service for fireplaces that have sat idle for months. Suddenly, when you need it, a gas fireplace won’t light or won’t stay lit, or a wood stove spews smoke into the living room.
Are You Stacking Your Firewood Properly?
If you burn wood for heat, it’s important to use properly dried and seasoned wood to get the best efficiency from your fireplace. This is not just important for helping you burn less wood for more heat, it is also key to keeping creosote buildup in your chimney low. Keeping your firewood dry and ready to burn is all in how you store it. Your wood should have a moisture content of 20% or less.
Give your home the gift of a working fireplace this holiday season!
More than 60% of home buyers prefer a home with a fireplace
Chimney Sweeping and Fireplaces: An Abbreviated History
Like any technology, the fireplace has evolved over time and, in turn, so has fireplace maintenance and cleaning. For example, the certifications the staff at Mountain Hearth & Patio holds from the CSIA and NFI were developed to promote standardization and professionalism in our industry and EPA-Certified appliances have been around since 1990 and were created to limit emissions from wood-burning appliances
