Why Some Fireplaces Smoke, And The Easiest Fix. FarmCraft101 

Easy fix? I guess it's all relative. Compared to hiring a mason to re-brick the firebox, I'd say this is much easier. And you can buy custom made fireplace screens for relatively cheap, so you don't have to build it yourself. Cheers everybody!

Note for people: this was a good fix for the issue at hand, but smoking of your open fireplace can also be caused by kitchen exhaust fans and cold outside chimneys

I loved that you used bullet hinges. What a stroke of genius! Great project.

That was awesome. So great to watch someone with the skills tackle a problem and solve it with attractive results. Nice job!

Nice fix and the barrel hinges, well that was just bragging. :-) A few simple tricks, when lighting the fireplace open a door or window on the windward side of the house for positive pressure, till the rising heat establishes. Make a combustible air intake in or near the firebox, it can be as simple as a vent grate to your crawl space. Air will follow the path of lesser resistance. Add a fan powered fresh air vent to a heat exchanger with a bimetal thermal switch. You can heat a distant room with positive air pressure by cracking open a window in that room.

I love your attitude and your where with all! Citizen we need more like you. . . Thanks for sharing and glad people like you still exist!

Cool build, I especially like the simplicity of the door handles you fabricated.

I learned several things from this one video. Thank you for producing it, and it was 3 years ago! While I don't have the equipment (yet), nor do I own my own place (yet), the ideas are simple and straight-forward. I can use them for this specific case, but I can also apply them in other use-case scenarios, which is just fancy-talk for saying they apply to other situations.

Those skills man. Really respect all that workmanship! And what an awesome HUGE fireplace!

Jon, you are amazing. I see a plan forming (well in your head). I see the step by step execution. Even though I do not have a fireplace, this was interesting. The problem solving on this channel is what makes me watch them all. (even if I do not have a need for a mini excavator).

Wow! Absolutely fantastic video, thank you. Love the Ingenuity and fabricating to make a problem go away! Beautiful work man, really enjoyed it thank you

Great video, thank you! Great DIY project. You can purchase a smoke guard that is extendable and installed under the lintel and extends the width of the fireplace opening. You can also raise the wood grate with 4 bricks one under each leg, that will get the smoke closer to the smoke chamber.

Good ol farmcraft only been watch u for 6 months … looked everywhere for this topic and it was right here ! looks great!!

Nice Job. One of the best produced craftsmanship channels on the Tube.

Living here on the freakin’ frozen planet of Hoth (AVE👍) we ended up getting an airtight wood stove and put in piping to bring in outside air for combustion. Otherwise the stove was pulling air from every window frame, door crack and wall plug to supply combustion air, making the place drafter then it really was.. In more pleasant climes like what yours appears, its very nice to just have a cozy, picturesque fireplace!❤ 🎉. Really enjoying your skillful execution of these many projects.😊

Very elegant solution. I’ve been having this issue with my fireplace as well. Good time to start another project.

You are one smart chap, I'm never unimpressed watching you tackle totally different issues.

Nice job you’re one hell of a craftsman!

this was a very satisfying video. Really awesome that you're creative enough and have all the right tools to make this happen. Very nice!

Thank you for the info 😊. My husband and I were considering purchasing a house that had a chimney, so I wanted to learn more about them.

Thank you Jon! This was the easiest fix I found online! Landlord wasn't too happy with the burnt parts in the carpet (havent told him I was welding inside the apartment!) 10/10 would recommend!

I have Glass Door that you can open and Close. There is a metal screen that opens and closes. Open one side of the glass door for more air to draw of the smoke if you want. What I like about the glass doors you can close them when the fire gets low, with embers, and go to bed. Great Job John, I like what you did.😁

Outstanding...brilliant solution and well executed as usual. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Also just shared this on our kapper Outdoors Facebook page. Excellent work once again, thank you

I'm only 30 sec in and can already tell the opening, the window, is way too tall. Good solution in the end. Maybe incorporate some brass next time but it wasn't needed in this instance. Beautiful home I'm sure. Who wouldn't like a natural fireplace in their kitchen?

Nicely done. And watching the high-speed buttoning was fun too!

As always, great craftmanship and video! In my world, I live in a different world :-) a smoking fireplace has many causes. Other than how much smoke is actually created in the combustion process, the main reason for a fireplace to put the smoke in the house rather than successfully out the chimney is pressure. If you have a positive pressure in the house, the air will want to leave the house. An open chimney is a great escape. Obviously, a warm chimney does this much easier, many factors. What strikes me though is that with an opening that big and a wide chimney, you choose to let a lot of house air out. Which means that you get a negative pressure in the house, which means that you will pull air from the outside into the house. You lose so much heat that way. Jon, I would love to see a video where you install an airduct to your fireplace that will draw air from the outside into your fireplace and replace your mesh doors with glass doors. Many factors and tradeoffs on this and that. I think that with fresh air into the fireplace rather than sucking in indoor air into the fireplace would be better. Keep it up, your videos and content are at the top of what I have seen on this here tube. You rock!

I had the exact same issue with the chimney having a new internal ceramic sleeve which constricted the flow as you mentioned. I setup a very small fan at the very top of the chimney which helps with the flow.

Thanks for showing this. Its helpful to just see your process and learn a few things.

Those were such nice hinges you made...so clean and simple. Nice!

Nice work! When you own your house you'd better be handy or else you need tons of money for maintainance. I had to fix holes in my fireplaces. Didn't know how to do that but learned from RU-vid videos. Great times we are living now 😁👍

Your the only one that could answer my question and fix the the problem. Thank you 🙏

Quite a craftsman! Love your work!

Every time i check a new video i see cool ways how to fix problems...thank´s for that!!

Great work mate, a house isnt a home without a fireplace

Quality content right there!

A gentleman's term for a form of copying is inspiration. Thanks for giving me my plan.

This was so cool to watch! So skillful and it turned out very beautiful 😊

Nice job, that fireplace looks nice

Great Vid! I had a large fireplace in a house (which smoked) and I installed a forced air fan in the firepit vent. Your solution (decreasing the area) would have probably been a better fix.

I made sure to cover the arc while you were welding so I didn’t hurt my eyes 👍🏼

Awesome job, very handy tips. Thank you, it made me understand my current situation much better.😊

What's the world coming to when a fireplace can't smoke!?! Great video John thumbs up.

Good work, looks like a nice, quality fix.

Nice job ...love the totally over engineered hinges... Good job done ... We have to make lots of steel apature reducers here in the UK as most insurance companies like you to have a stainless liner now even if you have good clay liner which just further reduces the flue flow and on listed buildings we're not allowed in a lot of cases to rebrick the fireplace ....also the government over here seems set on trying to reduce the use of open fires and wood burners .

this is so helpful thank you for sharing p.s. those hinges are super satisfying

Beautiful work.

Great Design thank you for the instructions… I have been concerned about the design of a fire place I have chosen to use … you solved this problem thank you

Well, I won't be able to do such a work, but I enjoyed watching it. Thanks a lot, great job, great video!

Wonderful, Love your Copy & Paste abilities. You show how you make the first one and just skip the rest. Won't the handles still get hot on the doors?

I love this channel so much!

You are amazingly skilled!!!!!!!❤

Nice job, and a well-done video.

Beautiful idea. Outstanding

Great vid. Great solution. Looks fantastic, I love it👍👍

That's pretty fricking awesome! Nice work too!

Great job looks mint.

Thank you for the video. We have been struggling with this issue and now we don't have to drill into our beautiful tile.

Nice looking hinges!

Wow nice work !

Nice job. Love that fire place

Nice job man. Fun to watch too.

Good work! Thank you.

Great idea. And it's looking really good🤘

ingenious innovation ; genius design .

Beautifull work!

Nicely done!

Amazing as ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very nice work.

Never used a fireplace much but ive seen others just stop using them because they smoked never really gave much thought as to why they smoked but it makes perfect sense what size should a fire place opening be in relation to the flue in my house we use a wood burning stove they seem to heat a larger area using less wood

You are truly a complete craftsman John. Only recently discovered your channel and its like finding a kindred spirit. The ethos, skill and breadth of these projects are inspiring and great to watch. Also a brilliant reminder of how much we can share despite differences of geography, and culture (and how much respect we can have for someone even if our views on gun control are very different). Excited for your next project!

Looks great too! 👍

Looks great, another thing I was thinking it what if you simply added say 8" of brick to the bottom of the fireplace to lift it up. Would that have the same effect?

Thats awesome! Thanks for the advice 😀

Nicely done.

Awesome solution to a Smokey Fireplace !!!!!!!!!!!

Nice job !

Well done!

Now that was a nice build. 👌

It’s been a while, I like the hinges.

That magnet might get demagnetized from the heat. Neodymium magnets have a low curie point but from what I looked up they should be good to at least 590°F. Don't know how hot it gets that close to the fire.

Elegant hinges you made there.

Realized my mouth hung open from 2:59-8:49 🤣 fanTASTic job!

But but but the magnets! Why do so many people care about the magnets? Its an easily replaceable part. Great work, fun to watch you explain the problem and build a simple, yet nice looking solution.

Nice job 👍

Great vid!

Good job!

This was super nice.

That is very nice! I want one!

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie :D

Love it, how did you find how much smaller the opening had to be?

Outstanding!

Wow, a piece of art

that was good great job thanks for the video have fun

Cool fix!👍😁

Masterful!

Very slick!

looks good too very nice

Excellent!

When you said "you guys have probably already figured it out" I thought "yep, build up the base of the hearth". It would be an option, but given how much you blocked off, it would've had to be MUCH higher, restricting your fire size.