re: Best way to keep a fire going in a fireplace? **UPDATED**

Heb has their own brand. They come 4 in a box. I'm burning one now. They work great. You can add real wood to it if you like. It's a guaranteed 4 hour burn

Add charcoal

Add wood

Please turn in your man card.

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every person and their mother is a firebuilding expert. Can't wait to see the OT version of that delusion.

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I am an Eagle Scout. Had to start fires with wet wood with two matches.

I am an expert

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I am an expert

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Expert me brah.

start with ultra thin wood (skinnier than matchsticks). Build them into a teepee shape. Very gradually increase size of wood until it is a couple feet tall, with the outermost sticks not much bigger than a pencil. Light the bottom, blowing softly to provude oxygen. Once the fire is going good, add sticks slowly, gradually getting bigger and.bigger. Once you have a good coal bed, add some.thicker logs.

Or, make a fire starter. Get cardboard eggcarton, add dryer lint and parafin wax. Break apart, light add wood. BAsically cheating it is so easy

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I bought this shitty wood from Lowe's and I can't keep the fire going. I'm here freezing my arse off downstairs meanwhile it's 98 degrees upstairs.

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If it's a fireplace and it is upstairs then that is the cost of doing business.

Fireplaces can't heat much more than an old school one room cabin. If you try to make it heat a sprawling modern, it will actually cool the rest of the house.

Now if it is a wood burning stove that you are running, that's different.

But it still seems your problem isn't keeping the fire going, but poor air re circulation.

Do you have at least the fan of your AC going?

Don't know what you're asking about.

Duraflame logs help keep a wood fire lit.

If I have wood I don't use the whole log, I cut it up.

I don't know how experienced at fire building you are but you have to poke it every now and then and rearrange the wood so air gets in and fuels the fire.