BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
on a wet cold winters afternoon...drying shoes, purring cat...'tis what Winter is for
Can't beat a real log fire
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Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
An open fire in the house is only a memory for me now but I also used to like them, they were also fascinating to watch with the flames etc. creating a moving picture. (More interesting than some of the TV shows)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
I must cut some more logs tomorrow.
Not got an open fire but I know someone who has.
Not got an open fire but I know someone who has.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
longers said:
Sadly it's never been safe to have a fire in the same house as me. My grandparents would have testified to that when I set their chimney on fire at the tender age of seven...
Baggy
Cake connoisseur
- Location
- Where the chevrons are
Chuffy likes to build furnace-like fires that shoot flames straight up the chimney...(ooh missus!vernon said:
)
Old timer
Über Member
- Location
- Norfolk, UK
I read an article a couple of years back from a study in the USA. Can`t remember all the details and can`t find the link now.
Anyway, the offshoot of the report and why it was carried out was because in a certain state in the US there were high incidents of lung cancer.
A committee was set up to try to discover what was causing it and the findings were that the people were early adopters of the fire pit in the garden (like a barbie I suppose) but a shallow pit was dug and metal was dug in to surround the fire at the back (as I remember) and they reckon that the smoke from burning wood if inhaled over a period was probably the cause.
Easy to put down I suppose and the type of wood might well have a baring but I suppose but seems pretty logical to me.
On the other hand, we have an old forrester living in the village that looked after many of the small estate forests and copse full time and whenever i have a bonnie out back in our field he jumps over the ditch and instructs me on the best way to start and keep going a fire whilst drinking copious amounts of tea and rolling his ciggys and filling me in on village life in the early part of the century. He set fires on most days it would seem to get rid of the cuttings and still looks good. Makes you wonder
Anyway, the offshoot of the report and why it was carried out was because in a certain state in the US there were high incidents of lung cancer.
A committee was set up to try to discover what was causing it and the findings were that the people were early adopters of the fire pit in the garden (like a barbie I suppose) but a shallow pit was dug and metal was dug in to surround the fire at the back (as I remember) and they reckon that the smoke from burning wood if inhaled over a period was probably the cause.
Easy to put down I suppose and the type of wood might well have a baring but I suppose but seems pretty logical to me.
On the other hand, we have an old forrester living in the village that looked after many of the small estate forests and copse full time and whenever i have a bonnie out back in our field he jumps over the ditch and instructs me on the best way to start and keep going a fire whilst drinking copious amounts of tea and rolling his ciggys and filling me in on village life in the early part of the century. He set fires on most days it would seem to get rid of the cuttings and still looks good. Makes you wonder
Grew up with open fires and the first house I bought was an old railway cottage on the Cuckoo Trail, previous owner had refurbished it and put in a log burning stove. I used the heating for water only. You could light it once, pack it up before bedtime and close the vents and it would still be going in the morning, if you left all the doors open it would heat the house. Miss not having one here, but looking to move next year and a log fire/stove will be on the shopping list.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Baggy said:Chuffy likes to build furnace-like fires that shoot flames straight up the chimney...(ooh missus!)
A quarter pint of paraffin thrown on glowing embers has a similar effect combined with a bonus depilation of the eyebrows and the creation of a fringe where one didn't previously exist.
Globalti
Legendary Member
We have TWO multifuel stoves and have been burning both every day this holiday; with the room doors open they warm the whole house and make the boiler redundant. They are very clean burning and there's little dust and no smell, they ventilate the rooms efficiently by sucking masses of air up the chimney so you never end up with that steamy headachey stuffiness that gas fires can give you. We lay in our wood supply in the early spring and season it in a lean-to store I built. We have become known in our street so occasionally we'll come home and find half a tree dumped on our doorstep. Not all are welcome though because evergreen is bad for the flue as it gives off so much resin and tar. At the moment we're burning our neighbour's sycamore and now that it's seasoned it burns very nicely.
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