WAIT…WAIT…THERE’S LOOSE BRICK IN MY FIREPLACE!
You are cleaning out the fireplace after a long winter of burning fires in your fireplace. You see that the mortar is loose or cracked and the back wall of the fireplace looks deteriorated. The firebox, where you build your fires, is the part of your chimney system...
WHAT IS THAT CAMPFIRE SMELL IN MY LIVING ROOM ?!?
Wood-burning fireplace chimneys smell smoky whether they’ve just been swept or not, because no matter how thoroughly the flue is swept, every trace of soot and soaked-in creosote cannot possibly be removed. Even if every microscopic remnant of wood smoke...