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Spalling: An Explainer

When you have a chimney system in your home, there are a lot of hearth industry terms that you end up getting to know pretty well, pretty quickly. There’s creosote — those troubling deposits that, left untended to, can create a fire hazard. There’s your chimney...

About Molds and Your Chimney

You know that saying, “canary in a coal mine,” nodding toward things that can tip us to hidden dangers and problems? In your chimney, we might call mold that figurative canary. (Though suppose that’s not really fair to canaries.) If mold shows up,...

Mold in Your Chimney?

Have You Been Breathing Mold Lately? We’ve all pulled the occasional moldy leftovers out of the fridge or tossed a bag of rolls with fuzzy green stuff growing in it. But the kind of mold that grows in the dark, damp places of our home is a different story, and not...