When I had a log burner I used my calor gas plumbers torch to warm the chimney whilst I set the kindling sticks, lit the sticks with the torch and added small logs until the fire was established.
Warming the chimney was the recommended way for my Trianco anthracite boiler; gave up on that as the coal quality decreased.
Warming the chimney was the recommended way for my Trianco anthracite boiler; gave up on that as the coal quality decreased.