{"id":14715,"date":"2014-06-28T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2014-06-28T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T20:04:09","slug":"tales-of-the-chimney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/06\/tales-of-the-chimney\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the chimney"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first winter I was in this house, I had a chimney fire. It was not much fun, but the good news is that Doug Heil, of Heil Brothers was the person I called. He was at my home the next day and replaced my damaged chimney, inspected everything including my wood supply and that was the start of a most excellent business-friendship. <\/p>\n

We speak once a year when he comes to clean and inspect all. <\/p>\n

Since that first visit, it has been a quick clean, “all is well” and then I hear about his family and I share my stuff and it is what life in a smallish town is made of!<\/p>\n

We missed last year as I did not use the woodstove the winter that Bear had his surgeries. I had phoned the office last July to say why I didn’t need a clean, but instead of Doug’s wife Sandy, I spoke to an employee so did not get a chance to catch up with either of them.<\/p>\n

It had been in the back of my mind to call earlier this year. I closed the damper and doors on the woodstove…early May…thinking not only the bats of past years, but the yellow jackets of the recent year.<\/p>\n

Then, last week, on the way to the dump…there is the Heil Bros truck parked by the side of the road. I pulled over. It was Doug. We chatted, etc. and the upshot is that he was here on Friday to clean the Chimney.<\/p>\n

The cleaning was fairly non-eventful.<\/p>\n

Doug did note that there were a number of Yellow Jackets (DEAD!) in my stove.<\/p>\n

We discussed the bane of the yellow jacket thing and I told him about my traps this year. I also told him there was a nest on the house and that I’d had a ladder set for the last week, but kept putting off dispatching the nest.<\/p>\n

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He said: “Oh, I’ll spray it, I do it all the time”. He sprayed it and did not get stung and the nest fell to the ground.<\/p>\n

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I was SO relieved! I absolutely HATE dealing with the nests. I told him about my nest spraying “outfit”. <\/p>\n

I just wanted to hug the man.<\/p>\n

He said that my spray was the best he’d used. It is a foam spray from the local hardware and my personal favorite as it goes a good 20 feet with a significant amount of foam which seems to render anything in its path…DEAD!<\/p>\n

I told him where I got it and then gave him one of the 3 cans I had in my arsenal as a THANK YOU!<\/p>\n

As we were “settling-up”, Doug said that I should start a fire in the stove. The recent driving rains had soaked the chimney, the stovepipe and the stove. He said a fire would dry things out vs some rust happening.<\/p>\n

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So…a fire…in late June…with the windows open and me in shorts.<\/p>\n

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Bear stayed away from the heat.<\/p>\n

Tales of the Chimney: Summer 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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