What to do with an unwanted gas fire?

[Chromatic]

Cross post but yours is better

You're too kind

 

[Globalti]

One of my neighbours had new fences and the old boy smashed the 18 old fence panels into small pieces under a foot long and bagged them up for me.

We are also stove fanatics; not only does the stove warm the room beautifully but it sucks huge volumes of air up the flue meaning the house never gets stuffy, or damp as with a gas fire. But beware wood that has already been used for some other purpose; if it's tanalised you will get cyanide fumes going up the flue and if it's been painted or varnished there will be resins collecting in the flue.

 

[marshmella]

That proves people are trying to sell them, it doesn't show that anyone is buying them.

On ebay, the 2nd hand ones are almost all no bids, eg http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fireplace-Gas-Fire-/282499334493?hash=item41c645c15d:g:KIQAAOSwcgNZG-9A

This is true . I managed to get the grand total of £5 for my gas fire on ebay

 

[Drago]

That's right Adrian. The cyanide going out the chimney doesn't worry me. That said, I do wish the council would hurry up and clean away the pile of dead people outside my house.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

To think, I nearly overlooked this thread. Gas fires I thought, this won't be interesting........

I think it's all going rather well so far.

 

[Bollo]

I think it's all going rather well so far.

Has anyone done a "got wood" joke yet?

 

[stephec]

Has anyone done a "got wood" joke yet?

Mort's got wood.

[QUOTE 4834516, member: 259"]We own a bit of a wood, so there's always firewood for us, and I don't even mind people getting a bit of fallen wood from it if they don't take the piss, which they largely don't. Taking cut logs is definitely taking the mickey though!

I wouldn't burn the offcut rubbish in the stove other than as kindling. It burns away really hot and you're left with nothing after 10 minutes.[/QUOTE]