After three and a half years, having finally come down with the coronavirus, resulting in reduced house and kitchen activities to blog about, it's fitting that I should reach back to late summer of last year to update my progress on one of the items in the Quarantine Task Jar: getting a chimney cap installed on the original southside chimney that was rebuilt several years ago (which is when I ought to have arranged for a cap!).
The picture above is from August 2022, when the guys from A Cleaner Chimney came to sweep the chimney for the wood-burning fireplace in the kitchen, and also to measure for said chimney cap.
About three weeks later, the custom-made screen and cover was ready for its install, and they came on Tuesday Sept 6th, 2022, to put it in place. This is a non-functional feature of the house, by the way: the fireplaces in the original areas of the house are coal-burning, so they are shallow and narrow...and I don't think the overall chimney from bottom to top is in especially great shape anyway.
Not only is it good to shield the old innards from the weather elements, but last summer also brought the sounds of nesting sweeps and nursing hatchlings. I’d rather not have their homesteading or squawking squatting.
In the 12 years of having a wood-burning fireplace to use in the chill of winter, included as part of the kitchen addition, it’s now undergone two sweeps. I was glad to get that done before all those fires I enjoyed in the short cold spell of this past winter.
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