Your gas fireplace can be divided into five main components. Each of these components requires annual maintenance to make sure your fireplace works properly and safely. 1. Vents The vent system feeds up through a chimney or vent. It must be working properly and without blockages, or you risk the buildup of toxic gases in your home. Although gas fireplaces don't produce soot, dust and debris can get into the vents. [Read More]

If you live in a rural area, you are probably a septic tank owner instead of a sewer user. That's because it can be really expensive to run a sewer line out of town for one or two houses and then to pump the sewage back to the processing plant. On the other hand, having a septic tank is going to be a lot easier on you because you don't have to worry about having to absorb some of the cost of hooking up to a distant sewage processing plant. [Read More]