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Show BETTER CHECK THESE UP A large majority, of fires start in the chimney and flues. "Safeguarding "Safeguard-ing America Against Fire" cites ten reasons for this. 1. Use of terra cotta sewer pipe or other unprotected tile or hollow blocks as a chimney. 2. Construction of chimney with bricks laid on edge instead of flat. 3. Chimney walls built with brick flatwise or only one brick thick, and flues unlined. 4. Supporting chimney on the timber construction of a building or upon brackets; or insufficient masonry mason-ry foundation, when the chimney rests on the ground. 5. Two or more connections to the same flue. 6. Building woodwork into the wall of a chimney, or placing it in contact with, or even in close proximity proxim-ity to, its exterior. 7. Smoke-pipes arranged to enter a chimney in vertical line. 8. Carelessness in sealing the connection con-nection between smoke-pipe and chimney, and failure to anchor the pipe to the chimney. 9. Carelessness is not renewing a rusted smoke-pipe and also in allowing allow-ing combustible material too near the pipe. 1 10. Carelessness is not keeping the chimney clean and joints in brickwork brick-work properly pointed. |