by Eron Armour | Jan 18, 2017 | Chimney Fire, Safety, Wood Burning Stove
This is a sad, tragic story and unfortunately all too common. Never use an accelerant in your wood burning heater. This is an excerpt from a Blaze King woodstove manual: Never use gasoline, gasoline type lantern fuel, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid, or similar...
by Eron Armour | Feb 19, 2015 | Chimney Fire, Chimney Problems
This type of chimney fire is 100% preventable with proper chimney cleaning. Routine and proper chimney sweeping may included rotary sweeping, rotary de-glazing or treatment with a creosote modifier and re-sweeping. Luckily for the residents there was only smoke...
by Eron Armour | Feb 6, 2015 | Chimney Fire, Chimney Sweep, Coeur d'Alene, Hayden
Routine maintenance is critical for safe and effective operation of your wood burning home heating appliances. This North Idaho masonry chimney serves a stove in the basement which is kept burning all winter long, it is suffering from a severe lack of maintenance....
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