Plain-spoken, large-print guides from an old bricklayer: check your chimney before the first fire, make one fire's heat last the night, and get through a winter power cut.
Sound familiar?
You load the stove before bed and wake up to a cold kitchen anyway. The heat was made. It just had nowhere to stay.
Most chimney fires come from buildup nobody looked at. Five minutes with a flashlight and a mirror can tell you if it's safe.
When the grid goes down in January, you want a plan, not a guess. One warm room, and none of the mistakes that cost lives.
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| Fireplace guide $19 | Heat-sink guide $27 | Handbook $29 | All three $45$59 | |
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| Chimney and fireplace safety checks | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Carbon monoxide and fire emergency plan | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Brick heat sink and thermal mass builds | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Masonry heaters, sun walls, cookstoves | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Winter power-cut plan | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hot-brick bed warmer and greenhouse heat | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Printable season checklists | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| 20 large, clear diagrams | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Who's writing this
Chimneys, hearths, bread ovens, garden walls and more firebox repairs than I can count. Most cold houses I walked into weren't short of heat. They were short of somewhere to keep it. And most chimney fires weren't bad luck. They were a check nobody made.
These books are the old trade knowledge, written down in plain words and big print. Where a job is safe to do yourself, I walk you through it. Where it isn't, I tell you who to call.
Hal
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Yes, that was the whole idea. The handbook is set in large print with big headings and lots of space, and every drawing has a written description under it. On a tablet you can zoom in as far as you like and the drawings stay sharp.
Yes. It's a normal PDF. Print the whole thing, or just the checklists to keep by the fireplace.
No. Most of the book is checks, habits and small fixes anyone can do. The bigger builds are explained step by step, and Hal is plain about which jobs need a professional.
Safety comes first in every chapter. Hal follows the fire codes and the advice of chimney sweeps and fire services, and marks every job that needs a certified pro. Always follow your stove's own instructions and your local rules too.
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