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“People load their stoves with wood,” Mr. Vierling said, adding those who commute into D.C. or Northern Virginia may find a warm home on their return, but “that smoldering fire builds up creosote.”
The creosote is produced from resins in the wood which are not completely burned at the low temperatures found inside an airtight stove. Most woodstove manufacturers recommend that airtight stoves be burned wide open for at least one-half hour each day to cut down on the creosote buildup in the stovepipes and chimney. Even with such precautions, chimneys should be cleaned at least once a year, prior to the first fire, and preferably twice each heating season.
Sitting nearly in the grate of the fireplace, using what look like giant bottle brushes with very long handles, lights and a high-powered vacumn, Mr. Vierling sets to the dirty job of cleaning the chimney. Little if any dirt falls into the room.
“I’ve only ever fallen off a roof once,” he says with a smile, adding there’s an old saying that chimney sweeps don’t fall off the roof if they wear their stove-pipe hats.
See SWEEP, p. B-5
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