Several years ago, I called the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning corporation.
I wanted to assume who I should call to have the chimney cleaned.
I wanted to have the fireplace ready for use in case I needed it. My oil furnace was getting outdated plus both of us had been having problems for quite a while now. They kept telling me that it could completely die at any time. I knew that if I had the fireplace prepared for use, I would have some kind of heating in the house. I kept looking at a dark spot on the wall that was up against the chimney. I thought maybe the heat of the chimney was causing the wall to become discolored. The problem here was that it kept getting bigger plus darker, plus there wasn’t a fire in the fireplace. When I talked to the people who cleaned the chimney, he told me they couldn’t even see in the chimney. He was going to put a light inside plus try to get a picture of what the blockage was. They put 1 light plus camera up the chimney from the inside, plus 1 down the chimney from the outside. Five minutes later, the chimney cleaner came in plus told me I needed an exterminator or a beekeeper. There wasn’t anything he could do. From the bottom where the spot was up to about many feet down, inside the chimney, the chimney was 1 big honey bee nest. I called around to see if I could find a beekeeper who would be able to entice the bees out. I didn’t want to kill them all, but I didn’t want honey plus dead bees in our chimney when I lit the fireplace..