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Fuel originally intended design of the fireplace. There are fireplaces in gas, liquid or solid fuels. Should always be strictly guided by the instructions and use only the manufacturer admitted fuels. This article will look at what you can sink the most common solid fuel fireplaces. As fuel for the fireplace, you can use wood briquettes from brown coal and peat, and coal and anthracite, which has a high calorific value and yielding little soot. Buying firewood, choose varieties depending on the species of trees. For hard rocks carry firewood from deciduous trees (oak, ash, hawthorn, yew, birch, hazel). Most of them are hard to crack and melt, but they all have a high calorific value, have a long flame. It is well suited for fireplaces with a larger fuel hole. Softwood inherent low calorific value, it does not spark, creating a characteristic crackling, throwing embers from the open hearth, and quickly consumed. Just fleeting fiery life of over-dried wood. Firewood with an optimum moisture those lay under a canopy in woodpile from year to year and a half. But the wood of ash and birch trees are lit, even raw. Fuel from alder and aspen burns without soot formation, and even burn it out of the chimney. Birch logs are good for heat but give a lot of soot. Very pleasant scent create burning boughs of cherry, apple and juniper. In addition, you can get the flame with a pattern, using stumps and roots, as well as painted flames, for which there are various supplements and solutions, which were impregnated wood. Normal salt gives the flame a bright yellow color, and copper chloride v shades of green and blue. It should be borne in mind that you only need to heat the chimney air-dried logs with a maximum humidity of 15% in 1925, only then they will burn with no emissions of harmful substances and give great warmth. Prior to burning firewood must lie in well-ventilated, dry place not less than 1.5 years, better than 2-3 years. Store firewood is best under a canopy of shade or in a barn-woodsheds with adequate ventilation. If we add the cross-shaped wood crates, they will be kept best. Be stowed svezhezagotovlennye firewood in the basement. There, they not only dry but also zaplesneveyut. Only very dried wood can be moved into the basement well ventilated area. Never cover the logs with plastic wrap. Firewood drying needed skvoznyachok.