How to Add Wood to a Fire

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Summary: Learn how to add wood to the fire in your fireplace, plus expert tips on how to build a fire in a fireplace, in this free how-to video.

Views: 557 | Tags: fire, gas, electric, wood, build, fireplace, place, start, flue, kindling, timber

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Bobby Hester Bobby has several years of experience in construction and remodeling. He is very detail oriented and takes pride in making sure all of his work is of a high s... read more

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How to Add Wood to a Fire

Hi, I'm Bobby on behalf of Expert Village. In this series I am going to show you several different ways that you could easily light a fire within your fireplace and I am going to show you several safety techniques and things that you are going to need to be aware of when lighting a fire in your house. Now that our fire is going, we need to keep your eye on it and maintain it. If you want to have a fire that burns all night long, we are going to have to add firewood to it as we go. So I just want to add a piece of two at a time. You don't want your fire to get down so low that you perhaps would have to relight your and after this wood burns down this certain point, I may add 2, maybe 3 pieces of wood whatever. I am going to go ahead and open this up. Just be real careful because there could be many hot places on the fireplace itself like on the screen. It's not really hot yet but it could be so you might want to get your poker and that way you can move your logs around if you need to reorganize things. I am going to take an extra piece here and put on the fire real quick. Once again like I said earlier you want to arrange it where it locks the heat in so everything ignites real well. We should have a nice fire for hours to come.