<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“yardsale”>There was a dumpster fire at Season’s the weekend before from someone who put embers in it when they left for the weekend… and there was a metal trashcan next to the dumpster too, you know, to put fireplace coals in.</blockquote>
In Timbercreek, where I am, we get weekly e-mails about what’s going on, and one of the things that is in each and every e-mail is safe fireplace ash disposal protocol. Often the challenge is conveying this, what to many of us is common sense, to the renter crew, many of whom don’t live in places that have fireplaces, and think that getting the ashes out of the fireplace, even if they appear 100% out, that night and closing the flue for warmth in the unit, is the proper way to do things…..
It’s almost getting to the point where owners who rent their units, need to install some aesthetically unappealing signage around their fireplace (but it can’t be on the fireplace and/or surrounding chimney covering material as that’s a code violation) to make it VERY obvious to leave the ashes in the fireplace overnight, and just close the doors to the fireplace, leave the flue open, and deal with it in the morning, or if the renters are staying a few nights, that it’s OK to have a 2 or 3 fires worth of ashes “build up” in the fireplace before removing them……
