Tonight, Jim and I built our first fire in our house since we moved in. Between the advice of both sets of parents, and my Oomah, we managed to not burn the house down. Oomah taught me how to "warm the chimney" with a lit twisted torch of paper, held up the chimney, so that it will draw the heat and smoke up instead of out. And our parents kindly reminded us to OPEN THE FLUE!!
When you buy an older home that has a fireplace, there is always a chance that it isn't, in fact, a working fireplace, so we're so pleased that ours doesn't fill our house with smoke. I can't wait for the next cold, rainy (or dare I say it), snowy day so that we can build another nice, cozy fire!
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