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Chimney Sweeping

9 February 2009

We’ve burned about as much firewood to this point as we did all last Winter, so yesterday I took advantage of the warm weather to check out the condition of the class-A (metal) chimney. I swept it out and got maybe a cup of gunk down in the woodstove. The screen at the top was pretty gunky and probably restricting the draft to an extent, but not too bad overall. It surely could have made it to the end of the Winter without any problem, but I’m still glad I got up there to clean it out. Although I still hate going up there…it would be too easy to make one slip and fall.