Preparing a fireplace for winter weather ensures both safety and efficiency. There's nothing quite like the warmth and ambiance of a fireplace during the winter, but it's important to prioritize its ...

Fireplace cleaning logs often sound like a too-good-to-be-true solution. Toss one into the fire, burn it like a regular log, and let chemistry handle the mess in your chimney. But do fireplace ...

Having a rip-roaring open-flame wood fire in your living room is serious business. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), an estimated 22,300 residential structure fires occurred ...

According to Angi and HomeAdvisor, a chimney inspection costs anywhere from $100 to $5,000, with $450 being the average cost of chimney inspection. The cost of a fireplace and chimney inspection ...

When it comes to having a chimney inspection or chimney repairs, I only recommend working with a Certified Chimney Sweep. This is a designation from the Chimney Safety Institute of America (CSIA) that ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Reader Question: A potential buyer has made an offer on our home with a contingency for a fireplace inspection. The chimney inspector started inside and ...

Q:After a hard rain, we found water in our basement near where our chimney attaches to the house. We noticed that the caulking between the chimney and the house is dry and cracking. We also noticed ...

The 5.4 Chino Hills earthquake left broken plates, cracked sidewalks and power-outages in its wake. The damage to Hank Pselos’ home in Eastlake Village was no different. Pselos came home July 29 to ...