Northern Chimney - Chimney Sweep Salem, NH

New Phone Number

Latest Update on our New Phone Number:

In order to preserve a single area code for New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Utilities Commission required that several carriers surrender several blocks of telephone numbers for redistribution to other carriers. Unfortunately Northern Chimney & Hearth has one of those numbers. 

On October 28th our new phone number will be: 603-952-2205

Chimney Sweeping Logs

I’m often asked do chimney sweeping logs really work?

The short answer is yes, and they work very well, providing you have creosote accumulating in your flue.

Chimney sweeping logs have a chemical that acts as a catalyst to break down creosote into less dangerous and easily removable soot. The type of creosote we are referring to is shiny black and sometimes sticky. This type is not removable with traditional chimney brushes and requires either a mechanical chain whip or chemical catalyst.

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Complete Combustion

Achieving complete combustion of wood

In order to understand compete combustion of wood to minimize creosote creation, we first need to understand how wood burns.

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