Depending on the design of your fireplace, you may have a clean-out door available that can help with this process. The clean-out door is a metal covering that sits on the backside of the fireplace, ...

After a tornado took out the Dalton house chimney, owners Grace and Brendan Abernethy, along with a mason who works on historic properties, spent 40 hours and used 700 bricks to rebuild it.

Design flaws, like a chimney that’s too short, can prevent sufficient draft in wood-burning fireplaces. To vent smoke ...