Ash pits: To clean or not to clean?
We do not recommend the use of ash pits – there is a simpler way to deal with the ash. Each year, at the end of the burning season, clear out the ash from your fireplace. To do so: • Open the damper for the dust to rise out of the chimney. • Make sure that there are no hot embers. • Using several paper bags, shovel the ash into the bags and roll them closed. • Deposit these bags into your trash. • Leave a small amount of ash under the grate to act as an ash bed for your fire next season. Please note: this should not be done on windy days. You can also leave this job to us. Each year, during your annual spring cleaning, we reduce our prices by 33%. If you choose to use your ash pit you will be creating a more difficult removal process. Most often, people do not have their ash pits cleaned out until it is full, and in most cases the ash pit is the size of a telephone booth. Removing that amount of ash is time consuming, and expensive. If you can live without an ash pit there really isn’t
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