‘To start a fire in a fireplace, I always start with smaller pieces of wood called kindling,' saysJason Hitchcock, founder of Survival Stoic. 'These small pieces are leftover from my firewood pile or odd-shaped pieces that don't stack well. They should be less than one inch in diameter...
Technicians use a "blower-door test" to accurately measure air leakage in houses. The test involves sealing a portable, frame-mounted fan in an exterior doorway to the house. Any known openings to the outside, such as the fireplace flue; bathroom vent fans; and the flues to the water hea...
Kathy K. had placed her burner to far back and as a result got a lot of ugly sooting on her wall. So when started to work with her on her newCustom Surroundwe explained that herfireplace burnershould be closer to the front so to avoid this again. To ensure an accurate fit and desig...
Burning gas logs in a fireplace has some advantages over burning wood. Gas logs are less messy, and you won't need to stockpile wood, yet these logs can give off that cozy look and feel of a wood-burning fireplace. But if you want your gas fireplace logs to look real, you should ch...
The “Usonian Homes” were small, single-story houses without a garage or enough storage space. They were L-shaped to fit around a garden terrace, with flat roofs and large cantilevered overhangs for passive solar heating, and natural cooling. In-floor heating was implemented by circulating hot...