Your fireplace provides a safe place in your home to burn a nice cozy fire to keep you warm on the coldest nights. In order for your fireplace to keep you and your home safe, the chimney needs to be tended to. This article goes over some ways for you to keep an eye on your chimney so you can prove the TLC it needs before it’s too late.

Since your chimney is one of the major barriers to fire danger in your home (and consequently one of the primary sources of fire outbreaks), when a problem occurs chimney repair is of utmost importance. Here’s a short list of quick checks you can perform on your own or hire a professional to undertake in order to evaluate when chimney repairs are in order.