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It's getting nearer to that delightful time of the year when the stove gets lit for the first time.
Maximum of 10 degrees is forecast tomorrow around these parts so that might be it. If so I might have to ditch the spare room and take the laptop down to the kitchen....tend the stove while i wfh and seriously up the amount of tea I'm drinking....can't wait!
Have you got yours lit yet?
It fell to 7c here yesterday so lit it last night hoping for a log delivery tomorrow.
It was 3c here in the Tweed Valley this morning - I am too mean to turn on the heating until 1700 unless it goes below zero. So will be powering up the log burner tonight at 1701!
This is the beauty of log burners imo.
You can use them in the weeks leading up to acceptable central heating usage months (Oct onward)
Never before Ayr gold cup weekend (last weekend) and never after my birthday (21 april) are my golden rules!
Looking at the forecast I just thought I should bring some wood in from the stacks, but hopefully I'll not need to light it for a few more weeks yet (I'm down south). High is only 14C for the next few days but it's 22C in the house and with sunny days to warm it... Hopefully won't light up just yet.
as soon as youve swept the chimney, could be a lot of soot up there or an empty birds nest
Cheap flexi- rods are fine but cheap brushes are rubbish, get a decent chimney brush that wont fall off the rod
first one last week here in rural mid sweden
four weeks ago here - August 28th...
Lit my wood stove last night. It did a good job of lifting the room temperature from 15°c to 20°c. First autumn of owning a wood burner and so far I'm enjoying the experience and heat.
Log burner's on in the dining room here so cosy lunchtime. Might have to move the PC in here as I had to resort to wooly slippers when at the work screen in the back bedroom this morning.
August bank holiday here, for a quick one.
It was 3c here in the Tweed Valley this morning
I woke up to ice on my windscreen in the valley!
Here in rural South Calderdale its annoyingly been above 5C each night but tomorrow night the forecast is 3C
Kindling at the ready
😎
We had ours on in august.....
How ever we did not have a back wall on the house at the time 🙂
Not got it on in anger yet
Frost on the grass this morning, it'll be lit today.
Bit chilly last night. I put a lounge jacket on. Offcuts building up for stove, but I'd rather that was as late as poss.
you're onyl allowed a log burner now if you don't drive an electric car 😉
however on topic, i woke up this morning in deepest surrey thinking ooh, the heating might have to go on soon (far too lazy to put a jumper on)..
you’re onyl allowed a log burner now if you don’t drive an electric car 😉
Nah it's only if you first spend the guts of 30grand with kingspan and gypsum
Nah it’s only if you first spend the guts of 30grand with kingspan and gypsum
Well we didn't spend quite that much but we did kingspan the entire ground floor of the house when we were renovating a couple of years ago. Frankly it's been one the best things we could have done. That said We've had the stove on a few evenings now and it will be going on again this evening.
(far too lazy to put a jumper on)
And that is why the world is utterly ****ed. Laziness.
Yesterday morning was frost in the teviot valley on the van. Heating is on although it feels early.
Well we didn’t spend quite that much but we did kingspan the entire ground floor of the house when we were renovating a couple of years ago. Frankly it’s been one the best things we could have done.
I've done it too but I don't judge others for not.... It wasn't cheap it wasn't non invasive and it wasn't clean. But it was viewed as an investment in our home(iirc you don't live far from me so can understand why you have.....but for those in the south I can understand why it's not high on their priority)..... it does seem if you have not done this then others bemoan you for being warm.
As for put a jumper on..... I assume you live in the South no real Scotsman would contemplate heating before a jumper.
I lit mine an hour ago for the first time since spring. Its lovely.
I caved, tired after driving back from the Lakes and temp seems to be a lot lower than before we left. Bertie (the cat) approves....
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Blimey what a shower of cheapskates on here. Our stoves got lit at any time of the year whenever the room needed a bit of cheer. You don't have to build a hot fire, just keep it loose and flamey.
Blimey what a shower of
cheapskatesfolk who don't waste resources
We have two stoves going every night throughout the year. I usually have my studio stove on in all but the middle of summer. No sense in building woodpiles and never using them
ok its got chilly, I think I'll be visiting the wood pile tomorrow.
Mrs C is working from home.
Today was the first day I lit the stove at breakfast and we kept it in all day, just fizzling out now.
Where we live and in the house we live in I feel this is way of things for the next 6 months. The cat is in 7th heaven now the conservatory has lost its allure.
Woodburner on tonight, first time since March. It's great!
🔥🔥🔥
Indeed convert, I was home a lot of last winter and just ran one stove all day, fired the second up as it got colder in the evening and never turned the c/h on. I expect to do the same all winter this year. I love the stoves but doing the trips to the wood piles become a drag by the time you've shifted 8 or 9 cube. I love the stoves, but at the same time they make me appreciate gas c/h.
Too late to offer advice… but yes, this evening was the time to fire it up. Our is just dying down nicely now.
I’ve had mine burning since noon today.
The family was pretty chuffed when they got home from work and school to find the house all toasty!