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Show 2) Home Heating y IJintc By n Barclay lllil LO Heating Expert Bank Fire Only With Fresh Coal-Never Coal-Never Smother It With Ashes or Cinders. THERE is no mystery about how to bank a fire for the night. I'd like to give you the easiest, simplest method I know of, so that you will have no trouble getting abundant heat in the morning. To make room for fresh coal, shake the grates gently until you see the first red glow in the ashpit! ash-pit! Then pull the live coals toward the front, using a shovel or a hoe, so that the bed slopes downward from the edge of the firedoor to the back. Shovel fresh coal into the hollow, being careful to leave a spot of live coals exposed ex-posed in front to act as a "hot spot" in igniting the gases given off by the fresh coal, preventing puds and explosions. Allow sufficient time for these gases to be exhausted before banking the fire. When this is done, close the ashpit damper, open the check damper, leaving the turn damper as nearly closed as possible. Never leave the fire-door fire-door open after the fire is banked for the night. WNU Service. |