[Magdalen] how I hate this weather

[Marion Thompson]

I did that in my first Toronto home.  There was a fake fireplace with mantle and so forth, no chimney at all!.  I put an assortment of pillar candles in it and it looked great.    Good for your friend.   Candles are wonderufl.

Marion, a pilgrim

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From: ME Michaud
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 6:42 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] how I hate this weather

All rental property here must have both a working smoke detector and a
working carbon monoxide detector. They're not that expensive considering.

But the candle solution can also be charming. We had a friend who bought an
ancient little bungalow near the beach. Its chimney needed relining and she
didn't have the money so she arranged a bunch of pillar candles (mostly
orange and white with a couple of shorter red ones) in the fireplace and
lit them up on gloomy days to great effect.
-M

On Tuesday, November 20, 2018, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> On 20/11/2018 22:16, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> That's the thing, though: it's a real fireplace with a chimney, but the
>> chimney is stopped up (with insulation, I think). The owners' manual to
>> the
>> gas fire gizmo says it should be OK with any house's natural air leakage,
>> and that made me feel super-negative about ever turning the thing on. :)
>
>