On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:53:44 -0500, "George"
wrote:

Nothing new in that , really. Any fireplace or stove lights better with
air, which gets the chimney drawing, is self-banking with an ash bed.


Huh...?

Earlier (in responded to my asking if I could use my fireplace without
a grate) you said:

"How else to get air under the fire? It'll smother itself much faster
without it."

I responded because I agreed with you about that, and, as it turns
out, we were both wrong...

All the best,

--
Kenneth

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