Using a fireplace in cold winter nights is definitely lovely. You will just sit around the fireplace sipping your favorite coffee or hot chocolate with lots of marshmallow. However, if it is time to clean the fireplace you feel like it\’s the end of the world. Sometimes some people even get professional service just to spare themselves from this task. Well, fear no more because this article will provide you easy ways to clean your fireplace.

First of all you need to prepare the following things for your fireplace cleaning task:

Gloves
Vacuum
Used newspaper
Bucket with water
Bleach
Tarp
Brush
Rags
Oven and glass cleaner

Now time to do the work. Here are some steps for you to clean your fireplace. This is suitable for people who will do this task for the first time.

Step 1 – First of all, make sure to wear a gloves when cleaning your fireplace or anything for that matter. This will keep your hands safe from germs, dirt or even from accidents. So when you have your gloves on, remove the large debris from the fireplace manually. This is to make sure the vacuum cleaner will fit.

Step 2 – Plug in the vacuum and start to soot and ash out the fireplace. If there\’s carpeting near the fireplace make sure to cover it with tarp to avoid damage. Then put used newspaper on top of the tarp on the hearth and also in the flooring of the fireplace.

Step 3 – Now it is time to get 1 gallon of water with 1 cup of bleach. Scrub off the soot and creosote inside the fireplace. Also, using the same water-bleach solution you should clean the flooring of the fireplace. It is very important to scrub the whole area to avoid some more dirt left in the area.

Step 4 – When you are sure that you have scrubbed the dirt and creosote away you should now wipe the excess water with the help of rug.

Step 5 – After you cleaned the flooring and the inside of fireplace, you should also clean the grates. Set up used newspapers on the floor and place the fireplace grates on top of the newspaper. You can use oven cleaner to clean this or you can also settle with the water-bleach solution that you used to clean the inside of your fireplace.

Step 6 – In terms of cleaning the fireplace doors, you should use glass cleaner spray and dry it with clean cloth.

Now with the following steps shared to you, no longer need to call chimney cleaners because you can easily do it yourself. We shall be practical nowadays and if we can do something, why do we have to call others to do it for us right? With this, we are able to monitor the cleanliness of the house, the fireplace in particular and we also have money saved. You could just use the money you saved for more hot chocolate with marshmallows or coffee to sip during cold winter nights.

Author Bio: James Terrell enjoys writing for Brick-anew.com which sells Heatilator fireplace doors and glass doors for fireplace as well as a host of additional products.

Category: Home Management
Keywords: fireplace,cleaning a fireplace,fireplace cleaning