When you fire up your chiminea, it smokes like mad. How come your chiminea is smokey? While there’s almost always a tiny amount of smoke, chimineas aren’t particularly smoky. It’s a design thing. Hundreds of years of trial and error means the design is extremely efficient and effective, minimising smoke. Using clean fuel like dry […]
Chimineas are wonderful things, transforming chilly outdoor spaces into cosy places to chat, party and eat alfresco, day and night. But, just the same as anything do to with fire, you need to take great care around them, especially when there are children around. According to ROSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, […]
If it’s been raining more or less non-stop since autumn where you live, you’re not alone. It has been a spectacularly wet and windy winter, and gardens all over the nation are looking well and truly ragged. How to maintain a chiminea You can use your chiminea all year round, of course. That’s […]
Want to know how to get your chiminea blazing? Here’s how I do it – without fail, every time: First off, no matter what your final, main fuel will be – charcoal, logs, etc – you must always start with the same 2 things: 1. What you’ll actually light. Lightly scrunched balls of newspaper work […]
The wife had been one about us getting a chiminea all last summer. So this year I relented. But – to be frank – I was clueless. I needed to know things like: • Which was the right chiminea for us – clay, steel, or iron? • How big a chiminea did we need? • […]