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June. 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
The Importance of Well-Built 
Chimneys. 
M any times when a furnace, heater 
or range fails to give full satisfac¬ 
tion, the trouble lies with the chimney and 
not w’ith the anpar.atus. where most people 
usually look for it unless they have had 
previous experience in such matters. 
Chimneys are often slighted wdien houses 
are built by contract, because the work is 
mostlv hidden from sight. 
In order that a heater or a range may 
give good service, there must he con¬ 
stant and uninterrupted draft from the 
openings in the apparatus to the top of the 
chimney, created by the wind sweeping 
across the chimney top. Xow^ chnnneys 
are very generally constructed with two 
dues, and the partitions between these 
dues ought to be built as carefully as any 
other part of the chimney. As a matter 
of fact, the due partitions are often con¬ 
structed most carelessly, perhaps because 
the workmen do not realize the import¬ 
ance of having them p’-onerly built. 
Openings may be left, or the bricks may 
be jilaced in position so loosely that sev¬ 
eral fall out after a time. Then the draft 
is interfered with, for the air is drawn 
through these openings instead of directly 
up the due. The extent of this interfer¬ 
ence depends of course upon conditions, 
but it mav he sufdcient to cause serious 
difficulty in the management of a heater 
or range that connects with the chimney. 
There often is trouble if a dreplace is 
connected with a due into which a pipe 
from a stove or range le.ads. This may 
be remedied, however, by having a damp¬ 
er installed in the throat of the dreplace. 
When the latter is not in use the damper 
should be kept closed, so that the upwmrd 
current of air will be drawn from the 
range or stove instead of from the room 
into which the dreplace opens. When 
there is ,a dre in the dreplace, less difficulty 
is experienced, but the wiser plan is to 
reserve the due solely for the dreplace. 
Fireplaces which smoke are commonly 
seen, even in some houses wdiich other¬ 
wise are very w^ell designed and con¬ 
structed. Often this defect may be reme¬ 
died by making the chimney a little 
higher, or by capping it with a cowl or 
hood, the latter expedient being especial¬ 
ly effective if the smoking occurs only 
wdien the wdnd is from a certain q'l.arter. 
Occasionally lack of fresh air in the 
room is the cause of smoky fireplaces. 
This may happen easily if the dreplace is 
too large for the apartment and the 
remedy for the condition is to construct 
a sm.all due from the oasement to the 
fireplace, thus supplying an abundance of 
fresh air and thereby creating a good up¬ 
ward draught. In other instances, there 
are fundamental defects m the construc¬ 
tion of the throat of the fireplace. They 
c.an be righted only by tearing out some 
of the bricks. In a case of this kind wdiich 
came to my notice recently, five dollars 
was the cost of changing a fireplace whiidi 
smoked badly into a good one.—F. I. F. 
Whichever way you 
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home the effect is always 
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yOU’VE often wondered just what it 
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That's a mistake. The secret is in the woodwork used, 
all probability the house you admired was built with 
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Morgan Millwork Co., Baltimore, Maryland 
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