Cleaning Your Fireplace

​Cleaning Your Fireplace
By Pierre Mouchette | Bits-n-Pieces

​Having an old-fashioned wood-burning fireplace provides warmth and coziness to your home that the gas-powered equivalent never seems to measure up to.  But it also requires a far more involved cleaning regimen.  And it's one you cannot afford to ignore.  The carbonaceous chemical creosote builds up every time you light a fire, and the more fires you light, the thicker it gets!  Over time, this can lead to debris entering your home and may even put you at risk for a chimney fire.