The Show Us Your Fireplace or Solid Fuel Stove Thread

[Drago]

Preferably lit.

 

[Dirk]

 

[numbnuts]

I live in a flat so when it's cold :-

View: https://youtu.be/L_LUpnjgPso

 

[welsh dragon]

Here is mine. I'll soon be cleaning it out for the summer months.

 

[Drago]

Those heat powered fans are amazing little things.

 

[welsh dragon]

Those heat powered fans are amazing little things.

They are. They are brilliant

 

[Ian H]

 

[Profpointy]

Wood stove in the basement. Had it around 5 years and have kept it fed entirely from scrap wood and skip diving. Supposedly it's less polluting as it's to modern inner city standards,
though having just been diagnosed with asthma aged 60, following a couple of quite scary hospital stays I am rather more aware of such concerns

We also have one of those fans; ours being a rather appealing Stirling engine one, though it's conked out. Must get it fixed

Also have an open fire first floor. By pure luck it's a very efficient design, given we got it from a salvage yard. Half a bucket of (smokeless) coal lasts all evening. Tend to only light it as a luxury treat if we have visitors

 

[tyred]

I haven't got a fireplace.

 

[Drago]

I haven't got a fireplace.

Heretic!

 

[welsh dragon]

This is better. A fire deserves to be seen at its best 👌

 

[tyred]

Heretic!

I have a heat pump. This is the 21st. Century.

 

[rualexander]

This is better. A fire deserves to be seen at its best 👌

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Distance to combustibles? 🤔😂

 

[welsh dragon]

Distance to combustibles? 🤔😂

Health and safety gone mad.

 

[Drago]

I have a heat pump. This is the 21st. Century.

I have heat pump to radiator as well. If its some kind of Top Trumps thing I also have proper aicron too, two of them, front and rear (which also work in reverse to blow warm air), so I have 3 heat pumps blighting the exterior brickwork.

But I'm not hostage to mains supply for heat in the event the wheel comes off, and I can also heat the house pretty much for free with the fire as my wife's nephew owns a fencing and landscaping company and I receive several tonnes of free offcuts a year that I rotate through the logs store to dry out. Free is my favourite price.

I can also heat - or cool - it for free from the 5kW solar and dual Solax batteries, but the fire is frankly a lot warmer and quite nice to look at.