2021 and this was super helpful. My new apartment has a legit fireplace and I've never owned or operated one. I'll be saving this for later viewings.

Huge help first timer here an the window crack trick seriously helped out

thanks I just bought my first home and this tip" making sure the damper is open in fireplace so I won't smoke up the house" very helpful to me, thanks again!

So helpful me my daughter and my son want to use our fireplace for a great bonding time this Christmas season

Thank you

Thanks dad 🥲

I recommend the top to bottom fire all you doing is creating more smoke by starting a top-to-bottom fire your priming it with the Firestarter

The window tip was good

Besides making great Batman movie, this guy can light a good fire

Seem like tips from the stoneage lighting from the bottom

Do you add gasoline ?

Instead of adding all your logs horizontal, set the front and back logs. Then lay the third log across the top of them diagonal. Preferably more than 45° if you can get it. Always keep one log on top going diagonal or near perpendicular whatever's below it. This lets the air flow easily up the middle between the lower, logs but that top one will trap the heat and reflect it back down. Continue cross-hatching the logs as you add them through the life of the fire, keeping the center/bottom of the grate (comparatively)open for airflow from below. Anytime the fire seems to die down, add something crossing the top. The bottom of the fire will flare up within minutes (the top most log will generally not burst into flame till later). 2nd, start with logs half the size of the ones in the video. It could be 2 hours till your throwing on the larger logs; as you build-up your HOT EMBER BED. If you have a selection, start with softer wood, and add the Maple or Ash later. (Avoid pine, the sap will build in the chimny, and that's a hazard). 3rd. Be mindful of which way the fire is going to collapse in 30 min. Stack so that Yule Log on top is going to fall down or back, not forward and out! (I've waited and watched an hour until it did just that. Didn't want to tell the person how to use their fireplace. It rolled 6 feet into the room flames and all. Luckily I was moving to grab it possibly before it actually started to fall. ) 4th. Be careful not to overstack the logs. Flames shouldn't be shooting up the chimney. Nonetheless, 2-3 layers is key. Remember a fire needs 1. Air 2. Fuel 3. Heat (Flames are not on the list). Always think of airflow, starting with that cracked window, across your ember bed and up between each branch. Your goal is to build a hot ember bed not a momentary hot flame.

And the shaft, u see

Have more than enough wood. Out of 10 logs you only get the heat of two. The rest goes up the chimney! 🤔😳😩

If you buy duraflame logs don't burn the whole thing in one fire saw it into small fat rounds and use them with kindling don't waste a whole log on one fire

1:22 "Warm the inside of the shaft" (makes long stroking motion with hands). Yep.

Why does my fireplace smoke up the house ?

Oh wow...except for opening the window to increase draught and having your damper open, literally everything else is wrong here. As a fireplace manufacturer, I recommend doing the exact opposite, of this gentleman's advice. Especially for a closed firebox. And who has a gas starter? 😅

He said shaft 😏

A gas starter?!?!?!?!?!?! You're living a lie!