How do you make inexpensive things to start a fire in your fireplace? I have heard of rolling newspapers, etc. Any ideas with sawdust? Can you safely bind sawdust with wax or anything?
thanks, Norma R
2007-02-14 03:12:56 · 4 answers · asked by Norma R 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
Most glue are toxic when burned. You might try flour and water. and make little sticks out of it.
2007-02-14 03:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by oldmanwitastick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dryer lint works pretty good. Strips of newspaper work. Strips of tar paper (used for roofing) work good too. You also need some small wood for kindling to get the fire going. You can make firestarters from sawdust and wax. I would suggest soaking the sawdust in something flammable that burns slow like lamp oil or kerosene (do not use gas). Wring out the excess oil then just mix it with parafin wax and let it harden and break it into chunks.
2007-02-14 11:23:51 · answer #2 · answered by Angry-T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I mix old candle wax with all kinds of things.....fill an empty toilet paper tube with dryer lint and soak with melted wax....pour the wax on the corn cobs from dried out field corn (the kind you feed to wildlife), .....once I even had to tear down a huge abandoned wasp nest, filled that with wax and it worked great.
2007-02-14 11:22:04 · answer #3 · answered by daffyduct2006 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bag of pellets and soak about a cup of them in lamp oil the fire should be roaring in just a few minutes.
2007-02-14 11:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by Kiwi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋