How do you start your living room/kitchen etc fireplace?
Me: Firesteel, tinder and kindling. Matches if I'm in a hurry.
Me: Firesteel, tinder and kindling. Matches if I'm in a hurry.
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how do you start your living room/kitchen etc fireplace?
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Back when I still had a fireplace: Stack the logs on the firedogs, strike a match, hold it under a litard knot until it catches, stick the burning litard under the logs.
Bed of rolled up newspaper, chopped kindling, thicker wood then logs and or coal.
Either a lighter or a my wifes plumbers torch, depending on what is closest.
The multifuel stove (£209 from Machine mart) has a good draw so it catches pretty much instantly. My house has central heating but I would be throwing wood away at work so it might as well lessen my heating bill.
Either a lighter or a my wifes plumbers torch, depending on what is closest.
The multifuel stove (£209 from Machine mart) has a good draw so it catches pretty much instantly. My house has central heating but I would be throwing wood away at work so it might as well lessen my heating bill.
Swan vestas and some feathered bits of kindling for me.
My wife uses newspaper and about 3 times as much kindling, not feathered.
My wife uses newspaper and about 3 times as much kindling, not feathered.
With junk mail and waste wood from the workshop lit with a long, refillable butane lighter. The lighter is refilled with a five year old can of pondland butane. Its still half full.
feathered kindling and matches for me - occasionally fire steel when I feel like playing, would like to try a bow drill but haven't yet
old paper and kindling consisting of thin branches snapped of trees (good one for the kids) or split wood, I've broken apart a lot of pallets lately and I've go a lot of pine blocks that split down very fine, they start great, then it's just progressively larger wood.
If i'm in a hurry and no small stuff I've no problem with firelighters or BBQ fluid and a blow torch, in fact my blow torch would be one of my treasured bits of kit
We put this in December to replace the open fire we had, it's lovely... Umm, even though it's come out sideways
If i'm in a hurry and no small stuff I've no problem with firelighters or BBQ fluid and a blow torch, in fact my blow torch would be one of my treasured bits of kit
We put this in December to replace the open fire we had, it's lovely... Umm, even though it's come out sideways
I heat my house almost exclusively with pallets collected from where I work. Some of them are even made of teak, all be it poorer quality teak. Some of the pine is quite resinous, so that tends to get put aside for the kindling. The blocks are great for putting heat out.
An old trick to help start the fire in the old-fashioned open coal firegrates was to spread a sheet of newspaper across the opening for extra draw. I guess most real fires in houses are now woodburners or mutlifuel stoves so the above method has largely been resigned to history, as has banking up the fire with slack or potato peelings.
I remember my old Mum doing that newspaper trick. I've seen the extra draft caused pull the paper into the flames once or twice too!
Still keep my fire going overnight by banking up and a layer of ash on top. Still good and hot in the morning.
i still have no gas stove in my ""cave"" so i cook outside on some sort of BBQ, using woodscraps for fuel(one of the benefits of working in a furniture workshop is free firewood 
). the ""L""-word is prohibited around me--- i light all my fires either with a magnifying glass or my raku raku striker (glad we have a microwave and hot water kettle inside as a back-up for bad weather...!!!)
). the ""L""-word is prohibited around me--- i light all my fires either with a magnifying glass or my raku raku striker (glad we have a microwave and hot water kettle inside as a back-up for bad weather...!!!)
way way more mate
It's a decent quality stove, Scan Andersen 8-2. We use a quarter of the wood, maybe even less...I tend to leave the door open a crack for a few minutes while all the fuel takes, it's not usually necessary but I like ding it anyway
I get my lad to light it, news paper, softwood sticks, dry softwood logs and then hardwoods when its going. Big box of Cooks matches.
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We used to use the free papers but they have stopped coming. So now the inlaws provide us with copies of the Black Country Bugle.
Two sheets of that then a handful of pallet wood kindling.
Ignition method depends on the time and inclination. Normal is a Tesco bbq lighter, but last night was the first test of my new flint and steel from Milius2. Charcloth to catch the spark then birch bark shavings and a feather stick on the shovel to get a flame.
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Two sheets of that then a handful of pallet wood kindling.
Ignition method depends on the time and inclination. Normal is a Tesco bbq lighter, but last night was the first test of my new flint and steel from Milius2. Charcloth to catch the spark then birch bark shavings and a feather stick on the shovel to get a flame.
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