Preparing to Clean a Fireplace

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Summary: Watch as a seasoned professional discusses the preparation required for cleaning a fireplace in this free online video about home care.

Views: 378 | Tags: fire, clean, fireplace, chimney, place, ashes, flue, woodstove

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Bobby Hester Bobby has several years of experience in construction and remodeling. He is very detail oriented and takes pride in making sure all of his work is of a high s... read more

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Preparing to Clean a Fireplace

Hi, I'm Bobby on behalf of Expert Village. Everyone loves having a warm fireplace on a cold winter day. The downside to that is you have to clean the fireplace and in this series we are going to tell you how to clean the inside of your fireplace, your chimney and even repaint the inside of your fireplace to make it look new. Okay this is a fireplace that I've burned several fires in and it is really dirty and I want to clean. The first thing I want to do is remove the fire screen and now before I remove any of the ashes inside of the fireplace, I want to make sure and mask off the fireplace. This is a roll of painter's plastic that I purchased at the local hardware store and I am just going to judge the width here and I am going to cut a piece off. The reason I am doing this is because it is really hard to control the ashes. They are so thin and lightweight they just seem to fly everywhere once you start moving those ashes around. So this will catch any that fall off of my shovel and just going to mask off the bottom here. Now I am just going to lay it down nice and flat so now I have a work area that I can start remove the ashes. If anything falls off my shovel and lands right here at the end, I can just pull the plastic up and throw the plastic away and everything is nice and clean.