If you use an open fire and your home has has a chimney, it’s imperative to keep them both maintained for the structural and safety of you and your home. With regular checks and maintenance, your chimneys should work safely as they should and save on expensive repairs bills when your chimneys stack falls into a state of disrepair.
You should Check your chimney is working efficiently as it was designed, check to the inside and out. Inside your property, look for dark stains around the chimney brest, this will indicate leaking fumes. A damaged chimney stack can lead to more serious problems than you think, such as structural and timber damage where the roof and chimney stack meet, so it’s always important to check regularly.
You should have your chimneys once a year by a registered professional chimney sweeper. If you’re burning a lot of new wood, this is very important because new and old logs produces a substance called creosote, creosote is vey flammable.