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Tips for
Starting a Fire in Your Fireplace |
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Open your damper.
If necessary, shine a flashlight up inside your fireplace to make sure
the damper is fully open.
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Clear the area around
the fireplace opening.
Remove any combustible
material including your firewood away from the front of the fireplace.
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Place your fire grate as
far back in the fireplace as possible.
This reduces the possibility of a smoking problem and the heated
backwall reflects more heat into the room |
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Ingredients
for your fire... |
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Tinder.
If you have a log lighter, definitely use it. If not, use fire
starters, fatwood, crumpled newspaper and small twigs.
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Kindling.
Large twigs, small branches and small splits of wood that are
roughly ¼" to 1" in thickness.
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Fuel.
Use well seasoned hard and/or softwood that is split, dry and
stacked away from the house for up to a year. |
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Still
having smoking problems?
Please visit our
Smoking Problems Page. |
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Always make
sure to have your chimney inspected and swept before using your fireplace! |
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