Isn’t it time you learned the history of the fireplace?

If you have a fireplace or are thinking of buying a fireplace to have in your own home, you should know its origins.

Don’t you think

Ahhh … Chimney Story …

Words so nostalgic.

Interesting? or of course it is. That fire that’s been warming your ass your whole life came from somewhere, and what a start it got.

The ability of our caveman ancestor to master fire, or I could say harness it, was a major turning point for the cultural aspect of all human evolution.

Homo erectus was the first human being to be shown mastering the benefits of fire, some 400,000 years ago.

From the time of the good old man of the caves and his use of fire, he discovered that fire was also good for cooking, as well as keeping it warm and keeping the great and bad preachers away mainly in the middle of the terrifying night.

Very dark and terrifying nights, I may add. Not that I was there, but I can imagine it with those big beasts coming out and with only one cave to keep them safe, the fire brought light and heat to the cave as well.

Fast forward a bit in time …

We all know that fire has been an important factor in our human development.

Among other things, it allowed our ancestors to move to colder regions of our planet, it revolutionized the cooking styles of all cultures, and it was important to keep the food rations as you would say … “Come to my house, let’s eat a party ‘…

I need to say more …

When were fireplaces invented?

As far as the historical part of things goes, the fireplace, in 1066 AD the campfires were replaced by the fireplaces we know today that were moved to the wall.

Yeah no more bonfires for a while, well they haven’t come back any day with a vengeance, but the fire was closed to the elements. Not just tame the llama that kept dancing every time a gust of wind came. It would also turn off if a large enough gust passed.

And you know how annoying it is after rubbing those sticks for so long, you’d breathe a big signal only to have to start rubbing those sticks one more time to get the fire going again.

Anyway … the closed fireplace also intensified the heat of the fire, thus giving a projected heat where it was needed most, towards your loot, and also gave a faster cooking time.

Very useful …

When the chimney was moved to the wall, it was the moment that the chimney was invented to expel smoke upwards out of the dwelling.

Let me explain …

In the early days, the fire was not contained between two walls, instead focusing on a dwelling where all the smoke roared around the occupants inside the dwelling, making it quite smoky.

I can see a lot of coughing and smoking clothes in here.

Then the men realized that they had to make a hole in the roof for the smoke to come out, but this really wasn’t going well if it was raining as the rain would come in through that hole in the roof.

The other disappointment was that the rain falling through the hole in the roof also put out the fire.

Then …

A clever cookie decided to put the first fireplace enclosed in the house, but what about the two-story building? This was still a problem.

There couldn’t be a hole going through all the roofs in the house, so the chimney literally went into the wall.

In this way the chimney was invented so that all the smoke could come out of the chimney as many floors as it wanted and exit through the top of the building.

Smart or what!

Now that they had tamed the fires for their warmth and cooking skills, they could move on to more elaborate designs to show off to their visitors, and even more efficient fireplace designs that have paved the way for the fireplace insurgency we’ve seen today. .

Truly … the dancing flame is something that we cannot ignore or be replaced by the comfort of our well-being and welcoming feeling.

Now it wasn’t that interesting.

Now you can appreciate your fireplace more if you don’t have it now wishing you had the fireplace in your own home.