Fire!

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

Thanks all (except inlaworker, you're just a tit)

 

Tomo, am getting the hang now mate, funny how quick you learn when it's minus 5 outside!

 

Been getting bags of hardwood logs (3 for2) from B+Q, but they've run out now it seems, must have been the scoundrel that was filling a trolley and putting it straight into the back of his car without paying for them ..........

 

Have got oil central heating too as I've mentioned, it's taken time but I think I'm all sorted now, so thanks all.

 

The paper in front of the fire to get it to roar .......... I'm loving that trick!

[Guest bullterrier]

Aaron have you tried any local tree surgeons because i remember when i had a allotment they used to drop trailer loads off alright cut we used to burn them in old oil drums burn for hours and the heat while digging on a winters day Worth a try .. ..john

[scottishlass 57]

we are burning deed elm at the min , been deed a while nice and dry only using a to shovel full of coal a day. keep putting on logs before it gets to low and they burn well. Anything thats burnable goes on the fire plastic bottles,packaging food comes in etc

 

Here we are toasting the dog for tea

[Meroman 105]

Hardwoods as have already been mentioned are best, Beech, Ash, Thorn & Oak if seasoned for a year.

I prefer the above but I cannot always get a supply so burn turf (peat) a 5 ton load lasts for the winter and if its properly dried beats all...

[shepp 2,285]

we are burning deed elm at the min , been deed a while nice and dry only using a to shovel full of coal a day. keep putting on logs before it gets to low and they burn well. Anything thats burnable goes on the fire plastic bottles,packaging food comes in etc

 

Here we are toasting the dog for tea

 

Good to keep coal use down but not a good thing burning plastic.

[jf1970 328]

i use coal and timber in my stove, i got this fitted 2 yrs ago, the stove cost me €800 and getting it fitted, plummed up to the hot tank cost €2,000, alot of money i know but it was well worth it, my oil bill for the year was €1,600 it's now down to €600 ish.

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

i use coal and timber in my stove, i got this fitted 2 yrs ago, the stove cost me €800 and getting it fitted, plummed up to the hot tank cost €2,000, alot of money i know but it was well worth it, my oil bill for the year was €1,600 it's now down to €600 ish.

 

Now that mate, looks about perfect!

 

I want one

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

we are burning deed elm at the min , been deed a while nice and dry only using a to shovel full of coal a day. keep putting on logs before it gets to low and they burn well. Anything thats burnable goes on the fire plastic bottles,packaging food comes in etc

 

Here we are toasting the dog for tea

 

Looking good there!

 

That's the same fire fret as mine, do you leave the vent at the front open all the time?

 

That elm looks it goes well!!

 

 

Bullterrier, I missed out on a proper load of trees yesterday, they'd trimmed a load down the side of the A483 near me, when I drove past there were cars, vans and trucks parked on the hard shoulder filling up, I pulled over and there was feck all left!

 

Have been asking around for tree surgeons, am sure I'll be sorted by next winter.

[bert the fert 28]

We've just swapped over from a little villager woodburner to a hunter herald 80b that has a backboiler to supply hot water and central heating. I can't believe what a difference it's made to the house. I'm mostly burning hardwood that Himself gets from work for nowt, mixed with a bit of coal to keep the fire going overnight.

 

Once the fire dies down, the thermostat switches the pump off, so the residual heat feeds the two gravity radiators in our bedroom and our little girls bedroom. It's not red hot when you wake up, but it's far from the physically numbing cold that we used to have.

 

To get it going again, i de-ash, riddle it, give it air and fuel and it's away Very pleased with it so far.

 

 

looked it up online, here's a pic of one

[scottishlass 57]

we are burning deed elm at the min , been deed a while nice and dry only using a to shovel full of coal a day. keep putting on logs before it gets to low and they burn well. Anything thats burnable goes on the fire plastic bottles,packaging food comes in etc

 

Here we are toasting the dog for tea

 

Good to keep coal use down but not a good thing burning plastic.

we recycle a lot here but bins aint been emptyed in 2 weeks coming up for 3 seek of the mountain of stuff building up