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Chimney Fire Safety

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Dirty chimneys can cause chimney fires, which damage
          structures, destroy homes and injure or kill people.

 

          When you burn wood or fire logs (Duraflame) the smoke that 
          travels up the chimney contains small particles of tar and  
          unburned wood. This collects and builds up on the chimney's
          walls. This buildup is still very flammable and can catch on fire.

When this buildup catches on fire the temperatures inside the  
          chimney are too hot for the chimney to handle. The fire can
          rupture and crack the inner liner of the chimney allowing flames
          to get into any area that is touching the chimney. The flames
          coming out the top of the chimney can catch the roof or
          surrounding trees on fire.

 

          The Chimney Safety Institute of America recommends that
          open masonry fireplaces should be cleaned at 1/4" of sooty
          buildup, and sooner if there is any glaze present in the system.
          Factory built fireplaces should be cleaned when any appreciable
          build up occurs. This is considered to be enough fuel buildup to
          cause a chimney fire capable of damaging the chimney or
          spreading to the home.

 

         

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Complete Chimney Cleaning, Repair & Installation

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When chimney fires occur in masonry chimneys - whether the
          flues are an older, unlined type or are tile lined to meet current
          safety codes - the high temperatures at which they burn (around
          2,000 degrees F) can "melt" mortar, crack tiles, and cause 
          liners to collapse and damage the outer masonry material. Most
          often, tiles crack and mortar is displaced, which provides a
          pathway for flames to reach the combustible wood frame of the
          house. One chimney fire may not harm a home. A second can
          burn it down. Enough heat can also conduct through a perfectly
          sound chimney to ignite nearby combustibles.

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IS YOUR DRYER VENT A FIRE HAZARD?

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Dryer Vent Cleaning and Repair        

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Statistics from the United States
Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) indicate that,
in 1997, there were 16,800
residential fires in the United States
originating in clothes dryers. These
fires resulted in personal injuries,
deaths and property damage. The
CPSC also reports that in 1996, approximately 400 people were non-fatally poisoned by carbon monoxide as a result of a gas clothes dryer.

Old or new, maintaining your dryer system is a must.  Over the course of a year the average dryer processes 477 loads of laundry or about 9 loads a week. This is no big deal for the dryer itself, the machine is designed to handle this, but your vent is another story.

 

Is your dryer system a problem?

 

Here are 5 questions to ask yourself:

• Is your dryer taking longer to dry clothes?
  
  
• Is there any amount of lint accumulating in or around the exterior of the dryer vent?
  
  
• Is there lint around the dryer or in your laundry room?
  
  
• Does the top of your dryer get abnormally warm to the touch?
  
  
• Are you noticing moisture problems any place where the vent travels through your home?

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Chimney Fire Safety

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Keep your home safe with the following ways to avoid
          chimney fires.

• Have your chimney inspected annually by a CSIA certified professional and cleaned when necessary.
  
  
• Use seasoned woods only.
  
  
• Build smaller, hotter fires that burn more completely and produce less smoke.
  
  
• Never burn cardboard boxes, wrapping paper, trash or Christmas trees.

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Dusty Brothers, Inc.  
8909 Brooks Road  
Fort Wayne,  IN  46825-2557  
dustybrothers@frontier.com 
260-482-9991

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