It’s frustrating when there are problems with the heating or cooling system, and recently I had problems with the fireplace, a part of our boiler that we use quite frequently. My wife and I purchased our house with a fireplace so we could use that to help our heating costs year after year. A fireplace is free to use as long as you don’t include the cost of wood. We easily get free wood from the forest behind the house, so it’s no substantial deal for us to use our fireplace. I heard some strange noises coming from inside of the chimney and it was getting close to the time when we would normally use our fireplace. I contacted someone at the heating company to have a full system service performed on the chimney. There are skilled and trained specialists that climb up on the roof and clean the chimney from the inside out. This time when I had the service performed, I found out that squirrels made a nest in the chimney during the summer. I had no idea that there were squirrels inside of the chimney and I don’t feel we heard any noises at all during the spring or summer. The service specialist took some pictures of the problematic areas. We had all of the debris and problematic areas cleaned and detached and after that we had the service specialist clean and completely sanitize the inside of the chimney. We didn’t want to breathe any excrement from the squirrel so it was a superb idea to make sure that the chimney was well cleaned.