Hiya /out/! I just moved into an apartment with a fireplace and I'd love to have a nice cozy crackling fire this winter but I've never started one before, can you help me?
What does an apartment have to do with /out/? Put some dryer lint into a ball and place it into your fireplace. Place small twigs over it in a teepee shape with slightly thicker (finger width) sticks over it about 9 inches long. Take your fire starter and scrape it with your knife so that the sparks land on the lint and ignite it. Gently blow until the sticks are on fire. Gradually add larger wood to it until you get up to the size you want to be burning.
>>888639
I didn't know what other board to ask about starting a fire. Don't you guys like to do campouts and stuff? Thanks for the advice.
>>888648
Just don't use liquid fuel to ignite it or anything stupid and keep the temperature in a good zone so creosote doesn't start building up bad in the chimney. I mean crumble up newspaper, paper, cardboard, anything. Get some smaller kindling and put it on top, light paper or whatever. get sticks going, add larger wood. It's all basically the same. The only thing that changes is for outdoors you may not have the right stuff and have to make due if you don't prepare.
>>888648
People here are gonna sperg out and yell at you for not living in some mud hut in the middle of nowhere.
>>888648
/diy/
Only heat you'll get off a fireplace is from splitting the wood. Get a wood stove, pleb.