Outdoor fires are always fun, especially at night. But the best way to enjoy them is with a fire pit or fire ring which will contain your fire in a safe manner. The first thing you will want to do before starting a fire is to scoop out the left over ash. It will clear [...]
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Overall, wood is a cheaper heating fuel than electricity. However, when not in use, a wood burning fireplace can act more like a heat vacuum than a heat source. Heat rises, and as heat makes its way through your firebox, it immediately rises up and out of your chimney. The damper, which regulates airflow through [...]
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One of the things which puzzle me in the Midwest is outdoor seating. You only get to use it about half the time, if you’re lucky, and it seems to be a waste of space for a restaurant. But one Mexican restaurant I recently went to with a roofed outdoor patio had a genius solution: [...]
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I love the combination between the traditional style and modern design with fireplaces. Electric fireplaces have the traditional look of wood burning fireplaces with the realistically burning logs, but also have the functionality of the modern times because you do not need to clean the ashes, worry about the smokes and the flying sparks, or [...]
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If you’re looking for a unique design of fire pit, this is the fire pit for you. This Up North wood burning fire pit is one of the many styles of artistic fire pits. The designer, Fire Pit Gallery, takes steel spheres, sketches designs in chalk, and then cuts out the intricate designs, giving you [...]
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I never considered getting a patio heater for personal use because I had a fire pit. So, I had all I needed for my outdoor heating needs. However, it hit me the last weekend that patio heaters are pretty convenient for commercial use as well. I was volunteering for a community event this past weekend [...]
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Outdoor fires are a lot of fun, as long as they stay in the fire pit. If you are camping or have a fire ring in your backyard, when you are done with the fire, douse it with a bucket of water. Stir it around, making sure the embers are extinguished. You’re supposed to keep [...]
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My parents would use their indoor fireplace a lot during the winter to try and save on heat costs. Every fall, we would get a truckload of firewood which we would split to the appropriate size and then stack against our back fence. After about three seasons of this, we started to notice our back [...]
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If you would like the interior effect of a fireplace without the hassle of installing a gas one, you should look at an electric fireplace. Installed against the wall, it will give a room a new dimension while giving you mantle space and a rich woodwork look. Electric fireplaces are very easy to set up, [...]
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You’re thinking, why do I need a grill cover? Isn’t that what the grill lid is for? A grill cover will protect your entire grill from outdoor wear as well as keep it a lot cleaner. Grills are made to endure the outdoors, but years of ice and snow can start chipping the surface and [...]
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