Black Dust
Today my Mom got someone in to clean out their fireplaces, which is I guess something you are supossed to do every now and then. The guy fnished the job and left. We were sitting in the family room where one of the fireplaces is located. As we're sitting there 2 things happen: 1. I notice that my nephew Jacob has black stuff on my face. 2. Felicia notices that her fingers are getting blacker and blacker. We start to look around and run our fingers over various things in the room. Everything - EVERYTHING is covered in a fine black dust - soot? The walls, the furniture, the Christmas presents under the tree. On close inspection it looks like a room after a fire has taken place - smoke damage everywhere. So we call the furnace company - the guy doing the cleaning had a hole in the bag of his vacumm cleaner!!! After several phonecalls with the company they agreed to pay all the cleaning costs, which will certainly be way more then the bill that was paid to get the fireplaces cleaned. T...