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How can I avoid so much smoke in my wood-burning fireplace?

Open the flue

When cool weather sets in and we want our fireplaces burning warm, BE SURE that the chimney flue (damper) is OPEN! What a sooty mess to have smoke come INTO our homes, rather than UP the chimney.

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