Home and Dollars

 I am not sure the last time I swept the chimney so I did it this morning while watching some football.  Pretty glad I did since there was q...

We have been burning quite a bit this winter so far, and our wood pile in the garage was depleted.  We had bad weather today so I worked fro...

I cleaned out the chimney on the fireplace this fall and had to replace the insulation blanket and baffle board.  I think that I will start ...

You know it is cold when the furnace is running and you are burning wood.  Our fireplace is rated to heat up to 3000 square feet.  When ...

Well it has been two years (didn't burn as much the first year) since we built the house, so it is time to have the chimney cleaned and ...

As you can see the lights are going in today and the fireplace stone is pretty much done, as far as I can tell. The trimmer was there as we...

Jen and I took Steve and Amy out to the house to show it off and we were met with this. WOW we are totally excited about them. They look r...

I was reading the manual for the fireplace and saw that there is an optional heat zone kit that can be installed with the fireplace. It wil...

Here is a picture of the fireplace going in. I helped push it into the opening :). I talked to the installers about running a second flue ...