Chimney Tips

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

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Most people think of a chimney as one thing. On a large share of

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. A direct-vent gas fireplace is supposed to look through clean glass. When a white

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. Every year the phone pattern is the same. Through August it is steady. The

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. When water shows up on a ceiling near a chimney, the chimney usually gets

By James Rodriguez, Central Chimney Service. When a dryer starts needing two cycles for one load, the assumption is usually