If you own a fireplace and use it regularly, fall is the time to give serious thought to hiring a chimney sweep — before you light your first fire. Chimney sweeping is an intricate and sometimes ...

Millions of Americans burn wood in fireplaces and wood burning stoves to generate heat. Some, myself included, ignite logs in fireplaces to engender coziness on frigid winter nights. Were you aware ...

Steven Carter is a master sweep, having swept well over 40,000 chimneys in the past four decades. Though he might not dance on rooftops like Dick Van Dyke’s cockney sweep in “Mary Poppins,” the London ...

BOISE — Other than sharing the same profession, Ritchie Abromeit has just one thing in common with Bert, the happy-go-lucky chimney sweep in the 1964 film “Mary Poppins”: His hands are filthy. Unlike ...

As temperatures cool down, you may be thinking of lighting up your fireplace for that cozy fireside feel. But whether you’ve got a gas or wood-burning fireplace, fire sources in the home tend to ...

A regional chimney and fireplace service company with roots dating back nearly four decades is continuing to build on its ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As temperatures drop and the use of fireplaces increases, East Texas chimney sweeps recommend getting and inspection and cleaning ahead of heavy use. According to the Chimney ...

The jaunty image of the Victorian child chimney sweep is indelibly romantic, evoking the picturesque London glamorized in ...