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The Chimney Professional Forum (CP Forum) is an email discussion group for all kinds of professionals who work with chimneys or chimney products. CP Forum enables chimney professionals to communicate with each other using email.

Members discuss technical questions or problems relating to servicing, maintaining, and selling chimneys, venting systems, and heating appliances; business management issues; and other major or minor points about being a Chimney Professional.

The CP Forum is not only educational, but also interesting and fun. Some members are very active with questions and answers to inquiries. Others choose to sit back and watch the activity.

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Who is on the CP Forum?
Netiquette on the CP Forum
What are Smoke Signals?
Sending Messages to the CP Forum
Getting off the Forum
Communicating with the CP Administrator
Please let us know if...
CP Forum is Free
Important Notices

Who is on the CP Forum?

The CP Forum is made up primarily of Professional Chimney Sweeps and other contractors who work with chimneys.

There are many manufactures and vendors to the chimney industry on the CM Forum. All are willing to assist the chimney professional in their daily work. They also will listen to your helpful suggestions for their products and services.

There are a few Home Inspectors on the CP Forum. There are Masons here who have built a great number of chimneys and fireplaces.

There are members of the CP Forum who are certified by the Chimney Safety Institute of America (CSIA) and there are forum members who are not certified. There are chimney professionals who are certified through W.E.T.T. in Canada. There are members of State Associations, Provincial Associations, members of National Associations.

There are members of the National Chimney Sweep Guild (NCSG). There are Regional Directors of the National Guild here as well. The President of the National Guild is also a member of the CPM Forum. The publication of the NCSG, Sweeping, is represented on the forum.

There are Presidents of State Associations. There are representatives from the hearth side of the industry who also own stove and fireplace stores. In short, there are many here who are willing to help you with your business and to answer your questions. All you need do is ask.

Netiquette on the CP Forum

Please be courteous and respectful of those who express their opinions on the CP Forum. Please refrain from saying anything you would not say in a public area.

Do not use foul or scatological language. Do not make personal attacks on individual or companies. Do not use vulgarity. Do not attack another's personal beliefs

Think before you hit the "enter" key and send your message around the world to other chimney professionals. Remember, you are entitled to your opinion, as are others.

Many parts of North America and Europe are represented on this forum and sometimes, depending on local custom and codes, people do things differently. This does not make them wrong.

Spamming will result in removal from the CP Forum.

Do not send graphic files as attachments to your email. Some people still have slow connections to the Internet and graphic files just take too long to download. If you feel that you have a graphic that everyone should see, just send an email describing the graphic and offer to send the file to individuals who request it from you.

If you have a problem with another individual member of the CP Forum, please send a private message to that person in an attempt to resolve the problem. Don't bring it to the floor of the CP Forum. If you receive a private communication from another individual, treat it as private. It is contrary to good netiquette to repost someone's private message to the CP Forum.

Remember, a breach of netiquette could result
in your being removed from the CP Forum.

What are Smoke Signals?

The Ask your Chimney Professional section of chimneys.com is a place for homeowners to ask questions and request help. When homeowners complete the form on this section and submit their questions to the CP Forum, we receive the message and post the questions to the CP Forum. We call these messages "Smoke Signals." When they are sent to members of the CP Forum, they will have the Subject Line: Smoke Signals.

If you wish not to view these help requests, delete the E-mail messages that have this Subject Line. If you do wish to help, please reply directly to the E-mail address of the homeowner who is asking the question. These homeowners are not on the CP Forum and will not see your response if you reply to the CP Forum.

If you notice that a homeowner from your area is asking for help, please don't fail to mention your on-site services. This is just another way that we at chimneys.com will try to help you increase your business.

Sending messages to the CP Forum?

Once you are registered as a member of the CP Forum, you can send a message to the forum using the following email address: forum@chimneys.com

If you are not a member of the CP Forum, your message will not be accepted.

Getting off the CP Forum?

Send an E-mail message to CPadministrator@chimneys.com stating that you would like to be off the CP Forum.

Communicating with the CP Administrator?

Should you wish to send a private email to the administrator, send to CPadministrator@chimneys.com Should you have questions about www.chimneys.com, send your questions to webmaster@chimneys.com

Please let us know if

You change your E-mail address or you change your physical address.

CP Forum is Free

There is no charge to be a member of the CP Forum.

AOL users (and a few others) should note that if you do not pick up your e-mail frequently, AOL returns your mail to us. We then have to spend time deleting all this from the Boston server and taking you off the list. If you will be away for a while, or not getting your email for a while - please let us know. If we receive email intended for you and have to take you off the CP Forum, we will charge you $10 to get back on. There is no charge if you let us know and we can stop your email before it backs up on our servers. This small charge is for our time in cleaning up your unread messages from our server.

Important notices about the CP Forum

The CPM Forum is unmoderated. That means NO EDITING of your messages. The administrator of the CP Forum is not responsible for incorrect or potentially harmful information distributed on the CP Forum. CP Forum is a restricted list. The administrator has the right to approve/deny access to the list. The CP Forum is a private email discussion forum. Membership is a privilege not a right.