The fireplace is an old style Count Rumford design that burns very hot. We have it inspected every few years and they’ve only cleaned it once at our insistence.
We burn our tree in our fireplace and have done so every year for the past 30 years. Strip the ornaments off New Years Day, cut off the limbs, chuck them in, enjoy the whoosh. Never had a chimney fire. The trunk is saved and used as the yule log to start the fire the following Christmas.
The fireplace is an old style Count Rumford design that burns very hot. We have it inspected every few years and they’ve only cleaned it once at our insistence.