for the love of god,clean your chimney!
@scarlet_woman (23463)
United States
December 20, 2017 12:48am CST
lately it's been really cold here..december,goes with the territory.
but one of my neighbors,i'm not sure who,really REALLY needs to have their chimney cleaned.
every night around 10 i get a sneezing attack with the stink it puts out.
either it's dirty,or they're burning green wood.
both are potentially dangerous..you'd think at least once a season they'd get somebody to take care of it.
i guess sooner or later i'll find out who it is if they don't.
i just hope they're WAY over there.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
20 Dec 17
if you have a small house or can close the room off it's not so bad..but most of the ones around here have 2 or 3 because the houses are big
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
20 Dec 17
@rebelann i used to live in tucson..i think it only got really cold that i remember a couple of times.usually pretty pleasant
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@rebelann (117272)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Dec 17
Many of the houses here are relatively small and most of those don't have a fireplace @scarlet_woman I think because this is a desert with short winters ... our winters here usually last maybe 2 weeks ... there's no real reason to have a fireplace.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
20 Dec 17
i didn't know that unclean chimneys are stinky when used. is green wood fresh wood? why is it dangerous to use?
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
20 Dec 17
some have flammable saps and the wet also tends to make a lot of smoke or not light at all.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
20 Dec 17
@scarlet_woman i didn't know saps can be flammable. i learned something.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
20 Dec 17
like i said..i'm not sure which of them it is
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
20 Dec 17
@Shavkat i could ask them but chances are they'll do nothing about it.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
20 Dec 17
@scarlet_woman I get that, my friend. Are there any inspectors that can check this concern?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
20 Dec 17
i guess Santa Claus won't pass through the chimney because it is not clean? hope your neighbors thinks about the possible respiratory conditions that they may have.
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@teamfreak16 (43663)
• Denver, Colorado
21 Dec 17
I've lived near a couple houses that don't clean their chimneys. Yuck.
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
22 Dec 17
There might be a possibility of calling a local city inspector to send out notices to home owners who have chimneys, so as to warn them of the hazards, if any exist, to not keeping the chimney clean and recommend a phone number for a local chimney sweeper in the area who offers free quotes. Just my 2 cents. Perhaps even contacting a local t.v. station to put out a public notice to people in the area to just inspect their fire place and also not to burn green wood. We get those public announcements in the local news during the winter, every now and then.
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