Kirk had the brillant idea at 8pm at night to take the cap off the chimney pipe to see what was inside.
We have been planning on doing the very thing but for some reason, he decided to do it when I was at a meeting and pretty late in the night to be starting a project....
though at the time, he didn't know it would turn into a four day project!
I arrived home at 10 pm and saw all the lights on in the house, all the windows and doors open and black dogs run past me. What? Black dogs?
When I pulled into the garage, Kirk bolts into the garage completely black!
I was like....What the Heck Happened to YOU!?
He just shook his head and said they are doing their best to clean it up as best they can and that I should have seen it two hours ago!!!
Thankfully, they moved Alex (the desert tortoise) out of the room and into the bathroom asap.
Everyone needed a shower, the dogs were being bathed at midnight because they had run through the soot and it poured on to them. We spent the next two days cleaning. We are still finding soot. Everything had to be washed. Curtains, walls, dishes.....A few things were destroyed. The air was so bad two hours after you could taste it!
They were actually dirtier than what the picture shows.
I had Mary Poppins running through my head constantly.
It took my Dad 4 Hours washing the floor!
YES! 4 hours! My Mom spent 2 hours cleaning the bathroom of all the soot!
It was horrible.
It even made it through the floor and into the basement.
So we found out why the chimney pipes don't draft. Both of them are plugged. Jared has since scaled the roof and removed one chimney pipe so we can replace it with a double wall insulated new pipe...soon to come. And unplugged another in the other chimney. Both chimney's have two chambers so you can run 4 stoves. Remember....the house is 112 years old. They didn't have a furnace until the 50's. Hopefully we can get the wood stove running and heating the house.
We have a big To-Do list!
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