right i'm going to give you a demonstration how to make the perfect fire we've got a multi-fuel stove here which can burn logs uh coal and also smokeless fuel you will want to check before you look at burning uh coal for example if you're in a smoke controlled area you can do this by checking the deafer website you will be able to burn coal in a smoke controlled area if your stove appliance is um has an exception on it so we'll take you through the basics of getting the perfect fire going using a smokeless coal we're going to be using coalite ovals which is as small as those we've said and what we find is that with a small close call like all light it will burn a lot longer it can burn up to like six to eight hours um so it's really good over the winter of a long cold night i'm going to start by opening the stove up and always make sure that it's clean on the inside you should have like a little nozzle which opens up the grid at the bottom you can just give that a shake to make sure let's see if any ash actually falls down because what's going to be important is that we have air flow coming through the fire and up through that will give us our heat to make sure everything burns properly so we're going to go ahead by um getting some kindling and what we're going to do is a bit like jenga we're just going to place it inside the stove every layer is going to be crisscrossed so one with keeping the airflow and two it's in a nice uniform position for us to place our fire lighters what you want to do as you're building more and more fires is try and use less and less kindling and also less and less fire lighter one as a bit of a challenge to yourself and two obviously just save yourself a little bit more money by using less each time fire lighters so i've just got a simple fire lighter in there in between the kindling making sure it doesn't fall down the grid and just in accessible places where we can actually light it before we light these i'll just show you a little bit about the actual um dials and switches on your stove they'll be in slightly different places depending on the make and model of your stove but typically you'll have a bottom lever which you want to start off with with them both open the top and the bottom the bottom one will control the airflow from the bottom of the stove so this will really determine like the heat that you actually want the stove to be kicking out later on you might want to reduce it but initially when you're starting the fire you want that fully open and same with the top the top will it's more useful for actual house call and logs where you've got an attractive flame with your core light ovals you'll get more of a like lower embers but it will kick out more heat but you will get that same attractive long flame that you will get from coal and logs this is to control the air flow as acting as a drag and it also keeps away like any smut or soot away from the actual window frame so it's very good for controlling that display and how that looks if you want in once if it's been on a while to actually for the fight to die down you'll just close that completely and eventually over time that'll simmer down but we'll keep that open and we'll get the fire going so light as much and then if you just simply touched your different fire lighter points and then a nice little trick is to rather than closing your window completely just pull it too but don't lock it okay that's really getting going now when the fire's going like that there's no way that it's really going to go out unless you shook a bucket of water on so i'm just going to open that up as you can see it's really raring and we're just going to place these around the center don't worry about chucking them in there again what i'm going to do is just close the door but just leave it slightly ajar so it's dragging the flames from the kindling and the fire lighter into actual oval so they'll start to really catch so once that gets going once the ovals have caught we can then just start to add a few more as we go on do it little and often that's the best way really you don't want to smother the fire that's been going for about a minute now so we'll just close that door to get all together and uh just let that take okay so them long flames that you can see there is still the fire lighter coming up through the briquettes but i'll just take you in for a closer look um because you'll see that the briquettes are starting to ember now and that means when they've taken and that's what we're trying to aim for so then flames are starting to die down a little bit so i'm just gonna open up and just add a few more briquettes just to give it a nice deep bed from this particular angle it looks like it's gone out but i'll just show you inside and as you can see it's quite dark in there but just below all the briquettes you've got some real deep embers and that's kicking off some a lot of heat and that's what you want from smokeless briquettes especially coal light um so yeah that should now burn for a good five or six possibly seven eight hours another little trick what you can do if you do want to see a little bit of a display in terms of flame you get a bit of kindling and just pop it on top and that will after a while that the flames will catch onto that and take it to that again we've got them nice glowing embers uh below the briquettes we'll just open up to give you a better look and that's really what you want to get from the smoker's briquettes that low deep glowing red and orange really gives a lot of heat and kicks out a lot of heat after a while that kindling that we just popped on the top that should take and that'll again will give you um just more of an attractive flame if that's what you're looking for and you can if you want you can mix with this smokeless briquettes you can put some coal on there even put logs on it with a multi-fuel burner what's really important is the actual hue of the briquettes catching you can see some behind see just at the back where the ones are really glowing red hot um and again at this stage we could start adding a few more um into there now it's really like taken uh but as i said little and often the best way but if you're gonna leave it overnight you'll be more than welcome just to put about 50 of what's there extra on top and that last you through the night okay so this is exactly six hours later and if we look inside you can still see that there's embers in there still kicking out some heat if you look at the thermostat it's at just under 200 degrees and so yeah that's cool light ovals ideal just for giving you that all night heat you