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This article was co-written by Anthony “TC” Williams. Anthony “TC” Williams is an Idaho professional horticulturist. He is the President and Founder of Aqua Conservation Landscape & Irrigation, an Idaho-based Landscape Business. With over 21 years of landscape experience, TC has undertaken projects such as the Idaho Botanical Garden in Boise, Idaho. He is an Idaho Certified Contractor and was a licensed gardener in the State of Texas.
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Lighting a fireplace is usually not difficult, but because of that, some people can forget a few important steps that should help them enjoy the fire more comfortably. A pleasant night by the fireplace could easily be ruined by a room filled with smoke. Here’s a method that can help you create a warm fire from the get go.
Steps
Make a fire on the grate
- This step will be easier when you do it before the fire. Once you’ve determined that the air valve is open, you can start building a fire.
- Close the air valve. This step will prevent the air from going down and entering the room.
- Put the fireflies in the shovel to shovel the fireplace coals, light it up, and place it near the top of the chimney in the fireplace. Your aim is to heat the upper air in the fireplace.
- Initially, leave the air valve in the closed position so that the air in the heater reaches room temperature.
- Crumple 4-5 sheets of newspaper and place on the griddle as a base layer. Don’t use too much newspaper, lest you create a lot of unwanted smoke.
- If you don’t have newspaper, you can use another material as a tinder. Tinder is a light and dry material such as dried moss, straw, small twigs, or newspaper that catches fire. You can use fireflies that contain resin, such as bark or pine cones, or use them as tinder. Tinder will catch fire first and burn very quickly. It is important to spread enough tinder underneath the spark plug for the tinder to ignite and burn.
- Never use catalysts such as lighter gasoline, car gasoline or diesel when building a fire in your home.
- Remember to place the fireflies horizontally instead of upright. In addition, you also need to leave gaps for air to flow through. Air is the fuel for fire.
- The substance is divided into several layers that are crisscrossed. Place 2 or 3 larger fireflies on top of the newspaper, then place 2-3 more horizontally on top to form a mesh. Continue to place the smaller firesticks on top, the upper layer is perpendicular to the lower layer.
- In general, you should choose small firewood instead of big firewood. Large logs are more pleasing to the eye and fun to burn, but they have a large surface area that makes it harder to ignite. Two small logs are better than one big log.
- Load firewood up to half the height of the fireplace. You certainly don’t want the fire to get out of control when you’re burning wood, but if you need to, you can add more firewood at any time.
- If smoke comes back from the chimney, it means that the fire is not getting enough oxygen. You can use a spade to pick up a pile of firewood; just pull up a little like a car lever. Be careful – your goal is to let air get under the wood. If the layer of coal under the grate is too high, you need to use a spatula to level it under the fire, leaving a few centimeters of space.
- If the smoke is gray, it is likely that most of the combustible material is coming out of the chimney rather than burning out.
- You can barely start a fire from the top down.
- Perhaps you are using wet firewood.
- The fire received too much oxygen. Yes, this is a little tricky – fire is the balance between air and fuel. When there is too much oxygen, the flame will have a hard time sticking to the fuel and may emit more smoke than usual.
- If someone sits between the window and the fireplace, they will get cold because the fireplace will start drawing in air. The air will be strongly drawn from the window and create a cold draft from the window to the fireplace.
- Get out and let the air flow – sometimes, if the chimney isn’t high enough, this is the only way to get good air circulation and get smoke out of the room. The rest of the room will remain warm, except in the slightly chilly range of airflow.
- When the small sticks catch fire and burn, load a thigh-sized log on top, being careful that the pile doesn’t tip over.
- Large logs take longer to ignite, but once burned, they will burn for a long time without you having to get up and turn the fire or move the wood. The bottom layer of embers will keep the heat in the oven, and that will keep you warm for up to several hours.
- Make sure the logs don’t roll out of the oven. The fireplace should have a heavy iron grating or other barrier in front of the oven door. You should also never light a fire unattended, just in case.
Make a fire when there is no grate
- This horizontal log will support the other sticks and create a ventilation slot so that the fire can draw outside air into the fire.
- Make sure the firewood doesn’t roll out of the fireplace.
Advice
- Firewood must be dry before burning. You should also choose soft woods like pine, fir, hemlock, spruce, and cedar. These woods are more flammable.
- Remember to use dry wood for the fire. Wet firewood is harder to burn (it will burn, though, so you can still burn wet wood in an emergency.)
- Check the wind speed. If the wind speed exceeds 32km/h, you should close the oven door. Cold air will enter the chimney, causing the hot and cold air to rotate, preventing the fire from burning.
- If you are still having problems with ventilation in your furnace, perhaps the chimney isn’t tall enough, or the heater size isn’t right. If the chimney is short, you may want to add an extension pipe – usually available at any fireplace or building supply store. Use roof patching material to attach to existing chimney. You can also remove the spark shield – sometimes the top cap attaches too close to the tube. You can use a tight-fitting mesh over the top of the chimney to prevent sparks and embers from shooting up, but do not cover the lid. This can help with better ventilation.
- If cold air gets in, you can treat it with a hair dryer. Open the chimney and direct the hot air of the hair dryer up the chimney to reverse the cold air. [8] X Research Sources
Warning
- Keep combustibles away from the heater, such as carpets, clothing, socks, gloves, newspapers, lighters, tinder, and firewood.
- Do not leave a fire in the fireplace unattended. Anything unexpected can happen – maybe a piece of wood explodes from moisture or sap when heated. If it shoots out of the net and lands on carpet or furniture instead of on the fireplace floor, you’ll be in for an unexpected surprise when you wake up.
- Buy a pair of fireproof gloves (welder’s gloves are also good) just in case a piece of burning wood falls out and you need to get in it right away. Place next to the fireplace tools such as a poker, coal tongs, small coal shovel and iron bucket to store hot coal. In addition, you also need to have a fire extinguisher nearby.
- Make sure the fireplace is well ventilated before starting a fire.
- Chimneys and fireplaces need cleaning and maintenance. Check for cracks once a year to make sure the fire doesn’t escape the chimney and into the frame. That’s not good at all. Scrape off soot inside the chimney to prevent chimney fires – this is terrible because it is difficult to put out and the destructive power is so great.
Things you need
- Tiny (like newspaper)
- Ignite the fire
- Firewood
- Fire tools (such as matches, non-flame, etc.)
- Fireplace kit (stove, shovel, tongs …)
This article was co-written by Anthony “TC” Williams. Anthony “TC” Williams is an Idaho professional horticulturist. He is the President and Founder of Aqua Conservation Landscape & Irrigation, an Idaho-based Landscape Business. With over 21 years of landscape experience, TC has undertaken projects such as the Idaho Botanical Garden in Boise, Idaho. He is an Idaho Certified Contractor and was a licensed gardener in the State of Texas.
There are 8 references cited in this article that you can see at the bottom of the page.
This article has been viewed 2,508 times.
Lighting a fireplace is usually not difficult, but because of that, some people can forget a few important steps that should help them enjoy the fire more comfortably. A pleasant night by the fireplace could easily be ruined by a room filled with smoke. Here’s a method that can help you create a warm fire from the get go.
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