Q–The fireplace in our 70-year-old house has a damper that does not work. Replacing it would be a very difficult and expensive job, but someone told me that we could have a new damper installed at the ...

Putrid smells emanating from fireplaces are customers’ number one complaint during the warmest times of the year, according to Jason Raddenbach of CleverlySolved.com. “Folks use their fireplace all ...

Let’s hope it’s not fireplace weather for a very long time. Sure, it’s spring now, but the Grieves family went through a fall and winter with a newly converted, but absolutely unusable, gas fireplace.

Dear Ken: I have a wood-burning fireplace that I want to convert to gas. What are the pros and cons? How much should it cost? - Nancy Answer: Wood burners like yours send most of the heat up the ...

Q. We live in a historic home (over a hundred years old), but the chimney is estimated to have been built in the 1920's. It is on an exterior (north) wall and is about 40 feet tall. When we bought the ...

Q: We own an older house in Los Gatos. It was built in 1930s. The fireplace was built without a damper. There is also a glass-door fire screen that can be closed. We get an odor of ashes even when the ...

Where to start with chimneys? Probably here: A chimney is not just an elongated window, not just a portal from inside to outside with deep, brick sills. A chimney, in fact, is a machine for generating ...

PITTSBURGH, July 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- "I had a new damper installed on our chimney, and it failed within two years. The heat from the fireplace compromised the tension in the springs that hold the ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Brrr, it's cold out there. Let's just go inside and start a fire - but what's that? The pilot light on your gas fireplace is out and you can't get it going again. Here's how to ...