{"id":132,"date":"2017-10-18T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/chimney-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:42:00","slug":"chimney-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/chimney-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimney Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Nothing beats the warm, ambient atmosphere that a fireplace can provide; however,&nbsp;the chimneys that provide ventilation for your fires&nbsp;need periodic maintenance and cleaning, much like most other things. Over time, chimneys gather creosote, a carbonaceous chemical. The sticky layer of creosote that resides&nbsp;on&nbsp;the inside walls of your chimney is highly flammable; because of this, it is important to have a regulated cleaning schedule for your chimney.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>How do I know if my chimney needs cleaning?<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;\">Fire burns too slowly or too      dimly.<\/li>\n<li style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;\">When lit, the fire fills the      room with smoke.<\/li>\n<li style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;\">The chimney emits a bad odor.<\/li>\n<li style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;\">If you look inside the      chimney (while wearing goggles and a dust mask) and there is a layer of      creosote at least 1\/8 of an inch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\">If you need your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/\">chimney cleaned<\/a>, please&nbsp;contact Fiddler on the Roof Chimney Service today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing beats the warm, ambient atmosphere that a fireplace can provide; however,&nbsp;the chimneys that provide ventilation for your fires&nbsp;need periodic maintenance and cleaning, much like most other things. Over time, chimneys gather creosote, a carbonaceous chemical. The sticky layer of creosote that resides&nbsp;on&nbsp;the inside walls of your chimney is highly flammable; because of this, it&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/chimney-maintenance\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Chimney Maintenance\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afiddlerontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}