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Lighting Your Wood Burning Fireplace
Your wood burning fireplace is designed to use a grate to hold the wood to be burned approximately
WARNING: Never use liquids such as gasoline or lighter fluid in a wood burning fireplace. Serious injury can occur.
Have several sizes of wood available. Small pieces will be needed to start the fire, some medium sizes and finally larger logs that will burn for a longer period of time. Make sure all logs are small enough to fit entirely into the fireplace or firepit. If the wood is too large, cut or split it until it will fit into the enclosure.
1.Wad up some dry newspaper and put it under the grate but be carefull of ash that may be under grate from a previous fire.
2.Put small pieces of wood over the newspaper, on the grate. Small wood should not be more than 1/2” thick and 1” wide. Smaller wood will burn easier and make the fire easier to start. Make sure to leave room for air to circulate around the small pieces of wood.
3.On top of the small pieces of wood put a few medium sized pieces of wood. These pieces can be from 1” to 2” thick but should not block airflow around the small pieces.
4.Light the newspaper under the grate in several places. As wood begins to burn, add more medium sized pieces one at a time until a good coal base is formed. At this time you can add larger pieces of wood. Always make sure there is sufficeint room for air to flow around the wood that is added or you may smother your fire.
Warning! Never leave a burning fireplace or firepit unattended!
2009 Fireplaces and Firepits
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