[Closed] What is it about fires...

Agreed. Curious colour choice.

Agreed, open fires are grate. Always love to get a holiday place with one, not sure I could live with one on a day to day basis when time is normally against us.

That logs gonna take a while to burn.

Agreed, open fires are grate.

hang your head in shame, lollers

And there's a gas point right there in case you ever want to move out of the middle ages and into the rocking '00's . . . .

Agreed. Curious colour choice.

Olly I couldn't resist.

And there's a gas point right there in case you ever want to move out of the middle ages and into the rocking '00's . . . .

Its our reliance on gas and elec that causes half of the worlds problems in the '00s.

Aye if we all chopped down trees to keep warm things would be much better.

Nice

But that loglet will not last long

Aye if we all chopped down trees to keep warm things would be much better.

Certainly better and more sustainable than fossil fuels for domestic heating, though if we ALL did it we might need to get planting trees now.

Lol @ Loglet

The original fuel crisis was the the shortage of wood for fuel - its the crisis that drove the technology to mine for fossil fuel in the first place. People like to use the word 'sustainable' for wood, but there is no way that wood could be sustained as a serious fuel choice.

I sometimes do create a ton or so of little timber off cuts - so I like to chuck them on the fire and put my feet up, but I'm not sure I could bring myself to buy wood just to burn it. It seems too useful.

skid - the industrial/mechanical use of fuels is what caused the initial hunt for fossil fuels. Burning wood is not a sensible option for transport or large machinery. For the relatively small-scale, slow-use area of space heating it's a much more viable option and it does a damn good job of being a cycle rather than a one-way process. It's not perfect, but its a damn sight better than just ignoring it altogether and burning fossil fuels only.

Burning wood is not a sensible option for transport or large machinery. For the relatively small-scale,

but I love to see the old war time woodgas powered buses back in action again - theres a heath robinson project for you to tinker with.
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And it looks nice.

I can remember from a very early age going to my grandma's and loving watching the fire. I would save up little bits of paper so I could throw them on when we went to visit. I always wanted a real fire at home but we just had those gawd-awful Canon Miser gas fires.

So of course I have installed a great Morso log burner at home and love it to bits.

😀 amused.. I like the color ta, black would have been to oppresive for the room tho we havent actually finished decorating it yet, I dont think it will be too much trouble to keep it clean.

It was only a little fire to harden off the almond finish as it was its first run.

As for whether its a good or bad way to stay warm nearly all the fuel for it is from wood trimmed back by the forestry from an overhanging stretch of road. It is not like I am tearing out the heart of the rain forests and if it keeps the central heating dial from being turned up during the winter then I will be using a bit less gas for all you lot in the 00's.

:o)

Ohh, and don't regs stipulate that the hearth should be raised? 😉 I could be wrong mind you.

Basically a fire is caveman TV we seem to have a gene for just staring at it contently. I guess in the old days it meant life via warmth and safety.

Not lit mine yet not October them are the rules.

Regs stipulate that it must be a noticable difference between the hearth and floor and as a rule yes they are raised but after discussing this with the installer he was happy that there was enough of a difference between the slate/wood and if we move on and keep it in place can add a raised outer just to cross the t's so to speak. 😀