Keep Your Christmas Tree and Fireplace Separate!

It’s a wonderful time of year! With Christmas just around the corner, thoughts turn to inviting family and friends over to enjoy good food and better conversation. There’s frosted cookies, fudge, divinity, and other goodies waiting in the kitchen, and eggnog, hot...

Don’t Overdecorate Your Fireplace!

Now that Christmas is around the corner, it’s time to get the Christmas decorations out and get in the holiday spirit. It’s tempting to go all out, to make sure that every corner is filled with holiday cheer. If you’re fortunate enough to own a fireplace, then you...

How to Light Your Pilot Light

Now that fall is about over and winter is just around the corner, you’ll be wanting to spend some of those cool nights cozied up in your living room, all warm and snuggly. Before those cold evenings strike, though, it’s a good idea to make sure that your furnace is...

We Service Wood Stoves

Old Dominion Chimneys It’s autumn and with the beautiful fall weather comes lovely evenings that smell like burning leaves and pumpkin bars. The breeze is cool and you can feel winter in the air. Now is the time to make sure your wood burning appliance is running the...

Proper Ash Disposal

Now that the weather is starting to get cooler, your thoughts are probably starting to turn to evenings spent inside your house, sitting around the table and playing games with your family, helping the kids with homework, sharing stories about your day as you eat a...

Fire Prevention Week

National Fire Prevention Week is Sunday, October 7 through Saturday, October 13. This is a great time to review your fire safety procedures and to make sure that your fireplace and chimney system are running safely and efficiently, and at Old Dominion Chimneys, we’d...

How Video Inspections Work

Did you know that there are three levels of chimney inspections? Most people assume that when they call a chimney sweep for an annual inspection and cleaning that it’s a simple glance over of the actual fireplace and chimney to see if there is any outward damage,...

All About Chimney Swifts

If you’ve looked up and saw a flying gray smudge flying around, then you have most likely seen a chimney swift. This little bird is commonly found in the eastern part of the United States. Early in our history, chimney swifts nested in hollow trees. As the country...

Schedule Your Chimney Service Now!

Summer gets busy so quickly! With baseball games, swimming lessons, family get-togethers, and yard work, before you know it, it’s the Fourth of July. If you own a fireplace, you know that you need to have your chimney inspected on an annual basis, and it’s probably on...

Diagnosing Chimney Smells

There’s not much worse than having a rank odor in your home. It is just not inviting, it can permeate your clothes and hair, and it seems like you just can’t escape it. Sometimes it’s hard to find the source of the problem. You look under the couch for smelly...