Key Points Fireplaces may smoke due to issues with the damper, flue blockages, drafts, or air pressure fluctuations.Have your fireplace serviced once a year by a professional chimney sweep to avoid ...

If you’re looking for some useful lessons in business and in life, you could learn a few things from my chimney sweeper. First, let me tell you a bit about our chimney issue and how we winded up ...

What started as *** job to help him through college has now become *** lucrative business. Mike Kofod is *** modern day chimney sweeper. KFO claims he's cleaning more chimneys because people are ...

For hundreds of years, chimney sweeps have provided a necessary and important service to society. In 1981, Jeff Schmittinger started working in the field and today he operates Wisconsin Chimney ...

Ables, who grew up in Brady, owns and runs Ables Top Hat Chimney Sweeps. He has been sweeping chimneys in Central Texas for almost thirty years. When I was 28, my wife and I moved into a house in ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -- Schornsteinfeger (chimney sweeper) Thomas Scharwatz isn't sure if it has been 28 or 29 years that he has been a part of the New Year's reception in Kaiserslautern, but ...

Wayne Walker talks about being a chimney sweep in Middle Georgia. Q: A chimney sweep isn’t a career that pops into mind in the south. Is there really a call for it? A: There are more fireplaces in ...