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Show FIRST AID to the AILING HOUSE 1 by Roger C. Whitman QUESTION: My mother's two-family two-family brick house is 36 years old. The tenant on the second floor complained that the front room was filled with smoke. The chimney from the furnace goes through this room. My mother out out the furnace fire ir order to clear up the smoke. Later, when a new fire was started, she noticed smoke seeping through the brick on the outside of the building. Do you consider this dangerous? ANSWER: It may be a serious fire hazard. Your mother should engage the services of a competent compe-tent mason as soon as possible. Evidently the mortar in the brickwork brick-work of the chimney has disintegrated disin-tegrated to a point where it is now a fire hazard. |