Another home project: fireplace
Another thing I’d been putting off way too long on this house was getting my fireplace evaluated, with a bunch of stuff that had been called out on the home inspection report.
Today I finally had a chimney inspector come out and he said that it’s in mostly good shape, but that the chimney cap would need to be replaced with a more modern crown, the flashing needs to be replaced, and of course the whole thing needs to be swept out. The estimate for all that came to be not a huge amount of money so I went ahead and scheduled that work too.
I’m glad it didn’t need more than that. One of the reasons I was dragging my feet is I couldn’t figure out how to operate the damper system and I thought maybe that whole thing would need replacing, but while he was here he showed me how to work it. It’s a little unintuitive but now I know how to do it, and on the plus side it turns out that it was open this whole time so now that it’s closed I won’t be wasting quite so much energy on heating.
Anyway, they can get the work done within the next week, apparently, so that’s nice timing what with the holidays and the winter (although this winter’s been a lot more mild than the last few). I guess I need to invest in some fireplace tools and also finally get my living room arranged the way I want. (Which is mostly contingent on me finally getting rid of my extra couch, which has been ridiculously difficult to give away but I don’t want to just throw it out!)
Maybe I should use this as an excuse to have a small New Years gathering at my place, since my usual New Years thing isn’t happening this year.
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