If you have leftover bricks around, you can DIY your own custom hearth that is sure to make your fireplace or wood stove look new in this fairly simple project.

A reader describes the inexpensive, easy-to-build woodstove hearth he assembled from scrap lumber, stone, and mortar. Originally published as "Super-simple Woodstove Hearths" in the October ...

Stove owners should bunker by their wood burners until the political heat from Westminster shifts to someone else. Those wreckers who pollute the air by burning their toast, for example.