It may be often overlooked, but it's vitally important to clean your fireplace. How often you have it maintained depends on ...

Although considered by most to be a low-cost method of heating a room, traditional, open-masonry fireplaces create the reverse affect on the rest of your home. (Staff-Shot) Q. I am renovating my home ...

Before the temperature starts to fall, there are several things you can do to make sure your wood-burning fireplace is safe and efficient. The National Fire Protection Association recommends chimneys ...

Imagine the coziest spot to watch a game or movie: a cushy long sofa, a table full of snacks, a bar stocked with craft beers, a giant TV and a crackling fireplace with real wood burning, providing a ...

It’s elemental, the attraction to fire, with its dynamic, shape-shifting flames and warmth. This is why homebuyers are so enamored — like moths to a flame, so to speak — to fireplaces, which often ...

Several south coast counties restrict wood burning fireplaces, but San Diego isn’t one of them. Not yet. “Although it is not prohibited, wood burning in the home is a growing source of air pollution ...

From cavemen huddling around a fire for warmth and safety to family and friends gathering for a festive event, fires and fireplaces have played a special role in human life. Wood has traditionally ...