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Guides
Chimney and fireplace guides
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Why chimney brick spalls, and how bad it is Brick can spall with no frost at all: water, salts, hard mortar, coatings and flue heat do the work. Judging the damage, and the order that fixes it.
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What goes wrong in a chimney nobody uses Stopping fires does not stop the weather, the air or the animals. Ways to close an idle chimney off without trapping moisture inside.
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Vented or vent-free logs: look, heat, damper and room size Two standards, two sets of rules, and what each means for your fireplace.
- Why rainwater ends up in the fireboxWater reaches the firebox by a handful of routes, and the timing of the drip tells them apart.
- The smoke chamber and smoke shelf, explainedAbove the damper sits the part of a masonry fireplace nobody sees from the room. Its shape and its surface decide how cleanly smoke reaches the flue.
- Step, counter and apron: how chimney flashing keeps water outFlashing is two layers of metal that overlap without being joined. That unjoined overlap is the whole design.
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