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What To Do While Waiting For Your Fireplace Grate to Arrive

I receive lots of mail about plunging temperatures and the urgent need for a Texas Fireframe® grate to show up ASAP. I wish I could make the mail go faster, but the Post Office keeps our nationwide shipping rate low. (Thanks Uncle … Continue reading

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The 26 Highest Rated Trees for Hotter Fires

Choosing the right fireplace grate can give you a hotter fire, as Texas Fireframe® grate owners already know. But how can you choose wood to make your fire burn even hotter? We recommend hardwoods. Most wood purchased by the cord … Continue reading

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Confessions of a Log Scavenger

Free heat. That’s what I see when I look at a discarded log, destined for the wood chipper. I envision that log on my Texas Fireframe® grate, and I can almost feel the warmth coming from it. A large back log will burn late into the evening – hot, slow and steady – with only the front logs needing replacing. Continue reading

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It’s the Dawn of a New Day at the Texas Fireframe Company

After 35 years of bringing hotter, easier-to-start fires into homes all over America, the physicist behind the “Physicist’s Fire” has retired at age 93. But his company and his invention are in good hands; his daughter, Nicole Cranberg, an ardent … Continue reading

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