Imagine this scenario: You and your spouse have just moved into a new home with a masonry fireplace. You start a fire and smoke begins to roll into the room. The damper opens completely and you can ...

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Every winter, I get quite a few emails from readers who suffer from smoky fireplaces. Just a month ago, one of my amateur radio friends reached out to me with the same problem. After asking him some ...

Our home has an unusual feature—one that’s become one of my favorite things about the space. At the very center of the house, between the kitchen and the dining and living rooms, stands a massive ...

Dear Pat: We are in the initial planning stage of ournew house, and we definitely want a fireplace. In order to minimizesmoke in the house, does it make any difference where we locate thefireplace? —- ...

After a string of four fires in two days in the city, Newport Beach firefighters are reminding the public to check and maintain fireplace equipment and chimneys. In a span of 48 hours on the New ...