Should I be worried that I’m going to upset the neighbours or can I just ( legally ) get on with it?

What are you burning that cant be recycled? Bodies?

Why not ask them? Or let them know so they don’t hang washing? Or stuff like that…

Legally you can’t have a fire within 50 feet (yards?, I should remember but I did this legislation a long time ago), of a highway. Can’t remember anyone ever being prosecuted for it though (apart from that motorway episode), so crack on I say 😀

I’ve got a shed to build & wanted to burn some off-cuts and other bits of wood I’ve lying around,…

@Cloudnine …recycling can’t beat a bonfire….

@threefish…I don’t speak to the neighbour on one side as there the reason I’m having to build another shed.

You mean you don’t have a wood burner or a ‘fire pit’?

Bigger the better 😈

I know right…unheard of…

Fire-pit on the cards for this year. Keeping an eye out for an Indian cooking pan/ wok type thing.

Bigger the better

Goes without saying.

Diesel not petrol…

No laws about having a garden bonfire but there are laws about the nuisance it may cause. You’d have to get regular complaints from neighbours for it to go anywhere though.

Heres how to get it going..

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOOc5kT39ec[/video]

I just usually spark one up in the evening and when its raining,no one ever said anything even when i burnt the old settee and chairs. not doing that again though the smoke was horrendous. 😳

its ok to burn your old sofa in the garden, but dont light a spliff

There are laws about burning stuff that causes black smoke, so no adhoc necklacing.

you’re not allowed one

Chiminea?

Mcmoonters got it, after work on our house and garden we had a pile of combustible material as big as a house, there was a flicker of concern 10 minutes after i lit it. 😯

What a dumb mother Hubbard in that video!!!! Petrol is explosive shocker!!!’

that video is great tho.

I was at Santa Pod a few years back for their bonfire day/ night ‘Flame & Thunder’ event. They lit the bonfire by backing the jet car up to the pile of wood and started her up.

If it was your neighbour doing the burning what would your response be?
Bound to be an answer on your local council/environmental health web site I would imagine 💡

nothing to add but that video’s excellent!

Oh who cares, don’t be so square, just get on with life!

Stockpile it until the hottest, sunniest day of the year and all the kids are playing outside, there are people out enjoying BBQ’s and everyone has their washing out. Then light it and bugger off out. That’s what most the meatballs who I’ve lived near have done.

Alternatively, a winters evening when there is little to no wind and everyone is inside with the windows shut is a good time.

http://www.eliteimagelibrary.com/Northern-Ireland/Bonfires/i-qbtfP5k/A%5B/img%5D

Bonfire? What bonfire?

It’s the 12th innit?

as i have discovered this morning, midday at the end of december is not a good time .
neighbour shouted he had some washing out , must have been 3 degrees C …….