by WellSwept | Nov 28, 2020 | Fireplace, WETT Certified, WETT Inspection, Wood Stove, Wood Stove Installation
Understanding how your firewood burns may help you in your use of your wood burning appliance or in choosing one. There are a few stages it goes through and how long each takes or if it even really enters that stage depends. The first is the burning off for...
by WellSwept | Jun 13, 2020 | WETT Certified, WETT Inspection, Wood Stove, Wood Stove Installation
I don’t know how many times I have heard somebody say their stove is made by Warnock-Hershey. Really? Well, yes it says so on the little plate on the back. Well no, it actually does not say that at all. What it says is that the stove model was tested in a...
by WellSwept | May 6, 2020 | Chimney Cleaning, Chimney Sweep, Wood Stove Installation
You may say “We’re not getting our chimney swept this year – we’ve hardly used it.” It is something I hear often and actually it does not sound at all unreasonable. After all, if the fire has not been used much will skipping a cleaning really matter that much? Well in...
by WellSwept | Apr 30, 2020 | Chimney Cleaning, Chimney Sweep, Wood Stove Installation
Many customers who use us for the first time are somewhat surprised. Many of the sweeps they have used in the past have been the old traditional type with just one brush and some fiberglass or bamboo rods, sheet over your wood stove, sweep the chimney and leave a load...
by WellSwept | Apr 17, 2020 | Chimney Cleaning, Chimney Sweep, Wood Stove Installation
Autumn and winter are ridiculously busy for chimney sweeps and solid fuel professionals in general. Beginning in mid-August until early the following year are usually crazy busy. We do our best, but it is not uncommon for people calling the first time to be surprised...
by WellSwept | Apr 12, 2020 | Chimney Cleaning, Chimney Sweep, Wood Stove Installation
Have you heard about a “Top Down Fire” or maybe even tried one? Many wood stove manuals actually show this as a preferred method to use when lighting a fire. Essentially in one sentence – it is a self feeding fire building technique that is very...
