Santa Isn't the Only One That Needs a Clean Chimney

It is time for the first fire of the season and you clean out all of the ashes out of your fireplace, dust the cobwebs out of the flue and remove the cover from the top of the chimney, you're done right?  Wrong.  Chimneys build up soot when the smoke passes through.  This soot and tar is flammable and can cause a house fire.  It is time to hire a chimney sweep to clean your chimney.  Santa isn't the only one who will be happy that the chimney is clean.

Though there are a lot of products on the market that claim to be just as good as hiring a real live chimney sweep, there is no substitute to experience.  Most of these products work by creating an intensely hot fire with the idea of burning off the soot and tar.  In some cases that actually makes things worse.  A chimney sweep is going to use brushes and physically remove the soot.

For about $100 a trained experienced chimney sweep will come to your home and clean your chimney the right way.  Take the potential disaster out of the equation and have the chimney ready to go before you need to build that first fire.  Check your local paper or your local telephone directory and call around for a few quotes.  You will be glad that you did.