Having an open fire is about more than just chucking as big a pile wood as possible into the brick opening and lighting it on fire. If you’re lucky enough to have an open fireplace, you have to consider the best thing to do for your home, yourself, and also for the environment. Apart from being a great source of heat and providing a beautiful ambience in your home, wood fires can also be potentially dangerous and bad for the environment, so you should take these things into account when setting up the fire in your home.
• Always use a slow burning and high heat wood like this red gum so as to get the very most heat out of the wood you burn. Not all wood is suitable for fire places, and you should NEVER burn treated wood. That is terrible for the ozone layer, and for you to breathe in.
• Use coal and kindling to start your fire and keep it burning. This is the same for summer bonfires and barbeques as it is for wintertime fires indoors.
• Always use wood that is properly aged and dried. If your firewood isn’t dried out properly, sap will have to burn before the wood will burn. This will cool your fire and create excessive amounts of smoke without heat, and we all know how bad smoke is for your health and for the environment.
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