JADE Philpott, 10, and her brothers Duwayne, 13, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six and Jayden, five, all perished following the fire at 18 Victory Road, Allenton, on May 11.
It was started at 3.46am by Mick Philpott with the help of his wife Mairead and family friend Paul Mosley, of Cecil Street, Derby, a court was told.
Petrol was ignited in the hallway of the house and flames and smoke quickly spread up the stairs and into the three bedrooms where the children were asleep.
During the seven-week long trial at Nottingham Crown Court the jury was told that Philpott started the fire deliberately to frame his former live-in lover Lisa Willis.
Ms Willis had lived in the Philpotts' house for 10 years but walked out three months before the fire with her five children, four of which Philpott was father to.
On the morning of the blaze Philpott and Ms Willis were due in court in Derby to contest residency of those five children.
Evidence given in court said during the build-up to the fire a number of key incidents took place.
A month prior to the blaze a minibus full of family and friends of Derby darts player Colin Osborne heard Philpott, who was driving them to a match, say he had taken a call from someone "threatening to burn down his house".
And two weeks before he set the blaze Philpott told mothers of children at the school gates of St George's that he "had a plan" to get his children with Ms Willis back.
Neighbours in Victory Road also gave evidence at the trial, including a number who tried to get inside the house to save the children.
Two sets of brothers – Jamie and Darren Butler and Daniel and Callum Stevenson – told how they were beaten back by flames and thick, black smoke as they frantically tried to smash bedroom windows
Secret police recording equipment, set up at the Premier Inn, in Uttoxeter New Road, where the Philpotts stayed after the blaze, and in a police van that took them to court after their arrests overheard Philpott ask his wife if she was "sticking to the plan".
A jury of seven men and five women spent two days deliberating before returning to deliver guilty manslaughter verdicts on all three defendants.
Philpott was jailed for life, while Mairead and Mosley were handed 17-year sentences.
The latter two will serve eight-and-a-half years inside before being released on licence for the remainder of the tariff.