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Throat Dampers: The Small Part That Keeps Your Fireplace Safe and Efficient
A small part doing a big job It is totally understandable if you’ve never heard the term “throat damper.” It’s a component most homeowners never
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Inspections and Safety
Reducing the Risk of Fires in Condos and Apartment Communities
In multi-family buildings, one unit’s fire hazard affects everyone. Learn the most common chimney, fireplace, and dryer vent risks and how coordinated inspections help.
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Prefabricated Fireplaces: What Every Condo and Townhouse Owner Should Know
Cheap to build, costly to ignore. If you live in a condo, townhouse, or HOA community, there’s a good chance the fireplace in your home
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A More Attractive Chimney Cap: The Benefits of Hip and Ridge Caps
Not all chimney caps are created equal. Most chimney caps do one job: cover the flue opening. A hip and ridge cap does something broader.
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Hidden Fire Hazard: Converting a Capitol Hill Coal Fireplace to Safe Electric
A hidden fire hazard, finally fixed right Some of the most important work Priddy Chimney does involves catching and fixing problems before they become a
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Why Gas Logs Keep Overburning: A Throat Damper Fix in Bethesda, MD
A near-perfect repair, missing one part Not every chimney problem comes from an old, neglected fireplace. Sometimes it comes from a repair that was almost
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Converting a Prefabricated Fireplace to Electric
What a Proper Prefab Conversion Should Look Like When a repeat homeowner customer in Upper Marlboro came to Priddy Chimney with an inefficient prefabricated fireplace,
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Five Flues, One House: A Chimney Reline in Northern Virginia
What a full reline really involves Some projects are a great reminder of why chimney relining is still one of the most important, and most
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Rebuilding a 130-Year-Old Chimney: A Southeast DC Church Restoration
What Painted Brick was Really Hiding Some of the most involved work Priddy Chimney takes on isn’t a residential fireplace, it’s historic commercial masonry, on
Repairs and Maintenance
The Upside-Down Fire: A Better Way to Stack Wood in Your Fireplace
Most of us learned to build a fire the same way. Crumple some newspaper, pile kindling on top, lean a few logs over it, and hope for the best. Sometimes it works. Often it ends with a smoky room, a collapsed pile, and a lot of kneeling in front of the hearth with a match.
There’s a better way, and it sounds backwards at first.
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Why This Annapolis Home Needed Three Chimney Fans
When Priddy Chimney Solutions was brought in to work on a large residential project in Annapolis, Maryland, the scope made clear from the start that
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When a DIY Electric Fireplace Conversion Goes Wrong
Many of Georgetown’s row houses and townhomes were built in the Federal and Victorian periods and feature chimneys with original masonry and wood-burning fireplaces that