Real fires.

[Sean]

For all the messing about and shit that you have to go through with them, they're still gobsmackingly wonderful on a cold, wet, miserable Ulster day.

 

[thør]

For all the messing about and shit that you have to go through with them, they're still gobsmackingly wonderful on a cold, wet, miserable Ulster day.

What's the big deal? A little gasoline splashed about and a match. Presto, nice big fire.

 

[Berries_n_cream]

For all the messing about and shit that you have to go through with them, they're still gobsmackingly wonderful on a cold, wet, miserable Ulster day.

Wood or coal?

 

[thør]

Wood or coal?

And here I was thinking house or forest.

 

[Sean]

Wood or coal?

Coal. My living room is toastie. It's the first time I've had it lit since I moved in.

 

[koalabear]

What's the big deal? A little gasoline splashed about and a match. Presto, nice big fire.

 

[Berries_n_cream]

And here I was thinking house or forest.

Murphy's Law says it's easier to start a house fire than a coal one in a fireplace...

 

[thør]

Coal. My living room is toastie. It's the first time I've had it lit since I moved in.

Oh, it's a stove.

Don't have one in the house. But, have a dandy one at the cabin.

 

[thør]

Murphy's Law says it's easier to start a house fire than a coal one in a fireplace...

I wonder if one of those chinney type charcoal starters would work? The ones that use two sheets of newspaper and no petroleum products.

Very few folk use coal around here.

 

[Sean]

Murphy's Law says it's easier to start a house fire than a coal one in a fireplace...

Oh, it's a stove.

Don't have one in the house. But, have a dandy one at the cabin.

Nope, just a fireplace. And lighting it is no problem, a couple of pages of yesterday's Guardian and a few broken up bits of the skirting boards I took off the bedrooms and it went up with one flick of the Zippo.

 

[thør]

Nope, just a fireplace. And lighting it is no problem, a couple of pages of yesterday's Guardian and a few broken up bits of the skirting boards I took off the bedrooms and it went up with one flick of the Zippo.

I'm not fond of most fireplaces as they're horrendously inefficient.

 

[Wings]

I just have a gas one but I won't ever go without one again.

Not just for the chance of sex in front of it.

 

[Sean]

I'm not fond of most fireplaces as they're horrendously inefficient.

Oh, I know. But one small bucket of coal will keep the whole of my ground floor warm all evening and night. And they just look great.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I haven't used my fireplace in about 10 years. Mostly because whenever it's cold enough to want a fire, it's too cold to go outside and get the wood.

 

[butters]

now you need one of these and some of these and this

and i am soooo envious right now

 

[islandman]

Pretty sure he has his own pitchfork, chippie.


The house came with an old cast-iron stove (circa 1928) in the basement, but no chimney hook-up. I thought about converting it into a wood pellet-burning stove, but the cost of hook-up and new chimney-flue was too cost-prohibitive.

Now it just serves as a big, metal thing in the corner on which I occasionally stub my foot.

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

Pretty sure he has his own pitchfork, chippie.


The house came with an old cast-iron stove (circa 1928) in the basement, but no chimney hook-up. I thought about converting it into a wood pellet-burning stove, but the cost of hook-up and new chimney-flue was too cost-prohibitive.

Now it just serves as a big, metal thing in the corner on which I occasionally stub my foot.

Shame you can't make it work again - it makes sense to have a heat source that is totally independent of any grid distributed fuel. And you just can't beat the ambience of a real fire.

 

[islandman]

Shame you can't make it work again - it makes sense to have a heat source that is totally independent of any grid distributed fuel. And you just can't beat the ambience of a real fire.

My thoughts exactly, but there's also the additional cost of making the stove itself functional as there's a bit of a jagged hole in the side. Maybe one day.

 

[Saint Peter]

Hole in the side?

Are you sure it is not a hookah pipe?

 

[butters]

Pretty sure he has his own pitchfork, chippie.


The house came with an old cast-iron stove (circa 1928) in the basement, but no chimney hook-up. I thought about converting it into a wood pellet-burning stove, but the cost of hook-up and new chimney-flue was too cost-prohibitive.

Now it just serves as a big, metal thing in the corner on which I occasionally stub my foot.

that's a shame, though if we all returned to burning coal the good old smog-days would return :cue jacktheripper:

open fires are still lovely, though

 

[Sean]

now you need one of these and some of these and this

and i am soooo envious right now

I haven't even got a poker, I'm using a bit of quarter inch cast that I found in a skip down the road. TBH, I mainly wanted to test whether it was drawing OK. Now it's in, though, I think I'll forgo the central heating altogether, at least until I get the upstairs finished.

 

[islandman]

Hole in the side?

Are you sure it is not a hookah pipe?

Might be cheaper to fly you out to weld it closed.

Fancy a ride to the east coast?

 

[butters]

I haven't even got a poker, I'm using a bit of quarter inch cast that I found in a skip down the road. TBH, I mainly wanted to test whether it was drawing OK. Now it's in, though, I think I'll forgo the central heating altogether, at least until I get the upstairs finished.

enjoy your open fire while you may.

god, i used to love love love the open fire, despite the ash and cleaning it out in the mornings - then central heating made things generally warmer but lacked all aesthetic appeal. you can't gaze for hours into a radiator's panels.

 

[chillywilly2]

And here I was thinking house or forest.

you owe me a can of coke and a keyboard

 

[chillywilly2]

enjoy your open fire while you may.

god, i used to love love love the open fire, despite the ash and cleaning it out in the mornings - then central heating made things generally warmer but lacked all aesthetic appeal. you can't gaze for hours into a radiator's panels.

see lifendeath about that...he has some stuff that will work for you