Chimfex by Orion Safety Products - CSIA Approved Chimney Fire Suppressant - Safe, Quick and Easy - Stops Chimney Fires in Homes in Under 22 Seconds

I am writing this to say that I have used this product and to say that it works. My stove started running away on me last night and glue temps got up to 700. I used two of these and it quickly calmed the chimney down but it didn’t completely put the fire inside the stove out. I quickly put on gloves and started grabbing burning logs and then I threw a bucket of ash to kill the rest of it. Product works very well and fast, that white film you see on my door was from this product. Very happy with the product because it protected my house and family.

Hopeful never to use but if you have a wood burning whatever, 2 day free shipping won't help.

First, they work great. Unfortunately, I had to use them for a woodstove chimney fire. Here is what I learned. I have no idea what the instruction " drop along side fire " means. Do some people have tiny little fires in their woodstoves? There is nowhere in my stove that is not on fire. I threw two in and watched them burn. Stuffed a rag in the air intake, used a dry chemical extinguisher on one small spot ( you will never put the fire out in a woodstove with an extinguisher ) got a small spot out and put my other two chimfex sticks in. That put the chimney fire out. Next time, I bought 36 Lbs of baking soda and put it in 6 , gallon size ziplock bags. I will throw the bags in, they will cover the whole woodstove. Fire will melt the bags releasing the baking soda. Even if they don't put the whole fire out they will put enough out so I can throw in the chimfex. I don't want to dump the baking soda from a bucket because the door would be open longer and feed a lot of oxygen to the chimney fire. As for the problem everyone is having trying to figure out when they expire, in the old days, they printed the manufacture date on the stick. Then they printed it on the box. Then they put a sticker on the box and now, these have no date on them and chimfex offers the very unhelpful advice of, " best if used within 60 months of purchase ". So chimfex could use the one you just bought in the warehouse for 10 years to prop a door open then ship it to this retailer and you won't know it expired 5 years ago until you try to use it. If they ever get a competitor that prints the date of manufacture on them, I will stop buying chimfex, but for now, they are the best way to put out a chimney fire. Buy several over several years, increases your chances of getting one that has not expired. As for how to use it, take it out of the box, take it out of the bag ( you don't want it to absorb moisture, leave it in the bag and box until needed) pull cap off, pull top off of cap, there is a striker pad like one the side of a box of matches and a head like the head of a match on the top of the chimfex stick, strike the cap across the top of the chimfex stick, it ignites like a road flare. Light it in front of where you care going to use it and put it immediately. It smokes and stinks. Then get out of the house and call the fire department.

Thankfully I haven’t had to use it so I can’t speak to how well it works but it seems to be good quality. If I have to use It I will update review

Unfortunately we ended up needing to use this. It worked exactly how it should. We would 10/10 recommend having one on hand. I am ordering two to be sure we always have one on hand.

It works, put out a chimney fire before FD arrived. Early intervention with this was likely key.

I hope i never find out if it works! It's a great safety backup to have next to my fireplace. In addition to your fire extinguisher place this little helper in the matches bucket and you have it just in case your worse fear happens and there is an it of control fire! Great buy! If you have a fireplace you better get a couple of these! I was a first responder for 20 years and when an emergency happens your brain does not work the same. Finding the fire extinguisher and hoping it's up to date and pulling the pin and, etc, etc. Or just throw this stick that's right next to the fireplace into the fire. Now you have time to go get the extinguisher and call 911 and make some calm decisions on what to do next. It just makes sense.... and cents! Lol..BUY IT!

It was 15 degrees out this morning so I thought I'd burn the stove a little hotter than usual to warm the place up. I even added a few pieces of nut coal to help things along... I cleaned the grate so the air was really flowing, then added a single log. I burn hard wood and the stuff I have now is really dry so I've been a negligent with my creosote removal schedule (only used it once in 6 weeks of burning). Anyway, I put the log on, opened the air up and then remembered I had to hook my dog up outside, got outside and remembered I had a few other things to do out there. Five minutes later, I come in and the stove is over 500 degrees which for me is REAL hot. At this point there is no chimney fire so I shut down the stove and the flue damper and have a seat to keep an eye on it. As I'm sitting there with the stove and all flu dampers completely shut down, the flu thermometer starts going up, and up and up. I have single wall 6 inch pipe inside so I just have a magnetic flu thermometer that I've learned to keep just above the flu damper since that's where it seems to get the hottest the quickest. So as I'm watching, OVER ABOUT A TWO MINUTE PERIOD, the thermometer goes up, into the caution zone, through the caution zone (the pipe is turning RED now), I'm hoping that since it's shut down, it will put itself out since it doesn't have very much air, but instead, now it's going into the danger zone, (the pipe is getting REDDER over a larger area now), then the magnetic thermometer looses it's magnetism, and falls off the pipe (metal looses it's magnetism at around 1400 degrees, now a small section of the pipe 2 feet above the stove is getting WHITE HOT). I had gone as far as actually practicing lighting this flare during the off season, and had my wife take it out of the box, take the cap off, and go through the motion of lighting it several times so she'd be ready if we ever needed it. Believe me, your house is one the line, you don't want your first chimney fire to be your first time familiarizing yourself with this product! When I saw white on the pipe, I popped the cap, it lit on the first strike, I opened the door and threw it in front of the log, then I shut the door, stepped back and said a prayer... Within about 15 seconds the white hot area was gone, by 25 seconds the red area was rapidly getting smaller, and by 45 seconds the red area was gone completely. The chimney fire was out. The flare burned for a little bit after that. I had another flare on standby but didn't need it. Understand that while this thing does an excellent job with chimney fires, it probably wont put the fire in your wood box out completely though it will knock it down significantly. What it appears to do is stop the chimney fire, which stops the Venturi effect of supercharging the air intake to the fire in the firebox, which then allows you to hopefully shut things down, and regain control of your stove and chimney. If your stove is anything like mine, once the overheat process is started, it can take 30 minutes to slowly bring it back down to regular temperature I learned after buying my stove that for some reason, you can't COMPLETELY shut off the air to the fire box. In my opinion, the maker of my stove allows too much air to the fire at even the minimum air setting but that's another subject. As a side note, I really recommend buying an ifrared touchless thermometer https://www.amazon.com/ThermoPro-TP30-Thermometer-Temperature-Adjustable I keep mine on the table beside me and use it ALL THE TIME to keep tabs on my stove and my pipe. Also, make sure you AND EVERYONE IN YOUR HOUSE knows exactly how to light this flare BEFORE you have a chimney fire. It'll save your house if you do. My flares DID NOT come with a manufacture date. Manufacturer says they are good for 4 years. I bought it two years ago, I'm back to order 4 more and will date them and store them in a cool dry place during the off season and somewhere very close to the stove during wood burning season...