By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. When a Bolingbrook homeowner calls and asks for a chimney inspection, the next question

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Most people think about dryer vents in terms of the lint inside them. That

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Every September I get the same phone call from a Plainfield homeowner: the fireplace

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Putting an insert into an existing masonry fireplace changes what you own. It looks

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Glass doors on a masonry fireplace get used almost entirely by instinct, and the

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Repointing a chimney — raking out failed mortar and replacing it — looks like

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. The firebox that has been sitting untouched since March is the easiest job on

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. If your chimney is a framed box clad in siding rather than a stack

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. There is a particular smell that arrives the first time the furnace runs in

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Scratching, fluttering, or a chirping that seems to come from inside the wall is