It might seem a no-brainer, but it is important to close your fireplace damper after you finish using it.
Under most circumstances, closing the fireplace screen or doors (never the flue!) and letting the fire die naturally is the easiest, cleanest method of extinguishing a fire.
Last Tuesday, the downtown dive with the iffy sound system, minuscule stage and, yes, working fireplace closed with little explanation after functioning for several years as a place for the hip and young.
Her bed and chest of drawers are made of rope, her garden is full of concrete, a kitchen light is an assemblage of broken crockery, her bedside lamps have canvas shades stained in tea, and two ground-floor fireplaces are closed off by blown-steel installations by Ron Arad.
The third is, "Put out fires in fireplaces and close the damper after fireplace cools".
She started a fire in a bedroom fireplace and closed the flue.
Make sure that your fireplace damper is closed.
$300,000 to $599,999 Croton-on-Hudson $490,000100 Hunter Place Number of bedrooms: 3 Number of full bathrooms: 2 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Weeks on market: 8 months 54-year-old contemporary; river views, fireplace, close to train and village; 0.14-acre lot; taxes $5,742; listed at $519,900.
The house included a basement pool (which eventually closed due to leaking), a stone fireplace 10 feet in width, and small square windows.
If you have a fireplace, keep the flue closed.
