Monthly Archives: December 2021

A Guide to Choosing the Best Firewood

It can save you much trouble and maximize efficiency if you know about different kinds of firewood when it comes to your fireplace, fire pit, or woodstove. To choose the best firewood per your needs, you must understand the characteristics of different kinds as not all firewood provide the same outcome. There are two main […]

What Is Concrete Repair And Does Your Chimney Need It?

Concrete repair calls for work on masonry and concrete structures that start to lose their strength over time due to various factors. These factors ranging from weather to age, effect the structure in such a way that they often require immediate attention. Chimneys, like most masonry construction, sometimes need extensive or minor concrete repair work. […]

How to Make the Most of Your Fireplace

It’s that time of the year again in Connecticut when homeowners have all prepped up to use their idle sitting fireplaces in the long, cold winter. Some say that fireplaces only have a ten percent heat efficiency compared to the 60 percent efficiency of wood stoves. The fact, as true as it may be, cannot […]

What to Look For In a Masonry Contractor

It’s always nice to plan a renovation of the front façade of your home or visualizing how the walkway would look with paving stones. You go up on the internet, look for ‘masonry service near me’ and call the top name that comes up in the search result. In a way this isn’t the wrong […]