Chimney sweeps tell friends and neighbors all the time: if you wouldn’t trust your favorite seamstress to stitch up your wound, don’t trust the neighborhood handyman to build, repair, or make installations on your chimney system. When it comes to health and safety,...
We are deep into the heat of summer. When you need a personal sprinkler system to get through one afternoon at the grill, an outdoor fireplace is likely the furthest thing from your mind. However, the professionals at New Buck Chimney Services think about fireplaces...
Over the years, a cricket in the chimney means some amount of luck. Whether this superstition was passed down year-to-year by family, or it came from Charles Dickens himself in his book The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, we don’t know. All we know is...
Of all the many parts that make up the chimney system, the chimney cap may be one of the most versatile and most important. Acting as a roof for the flue, the cap offers protection from the top down. Many old chimneys were not equipped with chimney caps and past...
The biggest cause of a leaky chimney is heavy rain. Each spring, we get many calls from homeowners who have found water in and around their chimney. Spring rain tends to highlight the problem. If you are experiencing a chimney leak, then there is like issues with some...
