In article .com,
wrote:
Hi folks - I checked my chimney yesterday. It is an older, lined
chimney. We burn wood on the weekends during the weekends here in the
Northeast with a new fireplace insert. Probably a cord a year. I have
had the chimney cleaned every year or so. They never get much out of
it.

I looked down it yesterday with a flashlight. It had a very, very thin
coating of creosote on the liner (less than paperthin). I could scrape
it off with my fingertip). No blackages whatsoever.

Does this warrant cleaning? Pls dont give me the Chimny sweeps of
America usual line. Does it REALLY need sweeping?

Thanks
Happy T-Day


If the flue is sound and the creosote layer is truly paper-thin
throughout, try burning a good, hot fire from dry hardwood for a few
hours.
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Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland -