All good advice from the others. I’ll add that having some scrunched up paper under the kindling teepee helps to get things going. And depending on what kind of kindling you have, you may want to split it even further, long way. Don’t do it neatly. The little bits of splinters sticking out will catch easier. Once it’s proper lit, add some smaller logs, cut side towards the fire. (Bark generally doesn’t light as easily) and then maintain the fire by adding more logs as needed to increase heat and not let it burn out as the initial logs get depleted.
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Dry wood, never freshly cut down, and stored out of the rain. Good kindling base, don’t hesitate to use fire starters. Feed slowly, your goal is glowing hot coals. keep the flue open till you get close. Dont shut it all the way till its roaring.
Pine cones are great to start a fire with along with cardboard like toilet rolls, I use a bit of everything, newspaper, cardboard, small twigs and pine cones then bigger kindling and then when that’s going, really dry wood.
So anyone with a wood heater, advice on getting a roaring fire going because I am terrible at it and always have been.
All good advice from the others. I’ll add that having some scrunched up paper under the kindling teepee helps to get things going. And depending on what kind of kindling you have, you may want to split it even further, long way. Don’t do it neatly. The little bits of splinters sticking out will catch easier. Once it’s proper lit, add some smaller logs, cut side towards the fire. (Bark generally doesn’t light as easily) and then maintain the fire by adding more logs as needed to increase heat and not let it burn out as the initial logs get depleted.
Will cut mine down a bit more. Thanks!
@danwritesbooks @CEOofmyhouse56 my tip is: clothes dryer lint! Save it and you guarantee a fast start.
A mastodonian! Lemmy daily threads must look pretty funky from mastodon, right?
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Dry wood, never freshly cut down, and stored out of the rain. Good kindling base, don’t hesitate to use fire starters. Feed slowly, your goal is glowing hot coals. keep the flue open till you get close. Dont shut it all the way till its roaring.
Thank you!
On the firestarter thing, the natural ones work great. Avoid the foil encased ones, all sorts of bad going on there
Set up the kindling like a tee pee then just keep adding bigger pieces as you go.
I’ll give it a shot next cold day. Thank you!
Pine cones are great to start a fire with along with cardboard like toilet rolls, I use a bit of everything, newspaper, cardboard, small twigs and pine cones then bigger kindling and then when that’s going, really dry wood.
My tip is to roll newspaper lengthways then tie a knot in it as a fire lighter.
Also clean all the old ash out including from the baffles, if it has a fan check that as well, may need to clean filters etc.