Learn safe placement, materials, fuel and maintenance for a backyard fire pit that creates warm, inviting evenings with ...

Q: I have a masonry fireplace that puffs smoke into the room when a fire is burning. It gets worse as the fire dies down. I've spoken with three bricklayers who build fireplaces and have received ...

Every winter, I get quite a few emails from readers who suffer from smoky fireplaces. Just a month ago, one of my amateur radio friends reached out to me with the same problem. After asking him some ...

Dear Jim: I saw a home show about massive European-style fireplaces that can heat an entire home with only a 30-minute fire during the morning. Do these really work and are they energy efficient? - ...