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By *mmmMaybe OP Couple
over a year ago
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Lives where they go collecting kindling from hedgerows & chop wood themselves for the burner?
S has just gone outside to chop the first load of the winter.. Woodburner will be going soon enough....which is great cos i'm bloody freezing!!
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"Lives where they go collecting kindling from hedgerows & chop wood themselves for the burner?
S has just gone outside to chop the first load of the winter.. Woodburner will be going soon enough....which is great cos i'm bloody freezing!!
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Beware the white walkers |
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By *mmmMaybe OP Couple
over a year ago
West Wales |
"Lives where they go collecting kindling from hedgerows & chop wood themselves for the burner?
S has just gone outside to chop the first load of the winter.. Woodburner will be going soon enough....which is great cos i'm bloody freezing!!
H
Beware the white walkers"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sadly not. I love a real fire. I used to spend hours after school chopping kindling for the coal fire when I was a kid.
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 likewise, let loose with an axe as a kiddie to chop up logs 
Nothing like a real coal / log fire. Sadly my current house doesn't have one  |
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"Sadly not. I love a real fire. I used to spend hours after school chopping kindling for the coal fire when I was a kid.
likewise, let loose with an axe as a kiddie to chop up logs
Nothing like a real coal / log fire. Sadly my current house doesn't have one "
The first thing I did when I bought my first house was rip the old gas fire out and put a fireback and grate in.
I'm supposed to be doing my sisters when I can pull my finger out and get over there and sweep the chimney.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yep, I keep my chainsaw in the boot on the off chance I happen across a fallen limb. But anything I cut will be for next year
You have a big freezer then  "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've just installed two log burners one normal, one jacketed and connected to underfloor heating.
Hopefully will be a mild winter and will save me an awful lot of chopping |
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this and next years wood is stacked and dried, the winters for the last 3 years have been so mild the heating has hardly been on..
global warming contributed to by over 1 million homes now in the UK having log burners/open fires? |
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By *mmmMaybe OP Couple
over a year ago
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"I've just installed two log burners one normal, one jacketed and connected to underfloor heating.
Hopefully will be a mild winter and will save me an awful lot of chopping"
We have a small burner in the kitchen which is connected to our hot water system so if it stays mild our leccy bill won't go too high, but we still put a heater on low in the girls room.
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"this and next years wood is stacked and dried, the winters for the last 3 years have been so mild the heating has hardly been on..
global warming contributed to by over 1 million homes now in the UK having log burners/open fires? "
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No burning wood is actually carbon neutral providing your using sustained sources |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Mind you if you've spent an hour chopping logs with an axe you'll be so hot you won't need the log burner on, or go to the gym... Although I have found it increases my thirst for a pint |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'd love a real fire
used to be a joke that if you wanted a real fire then buy a cottage in Wales..
think the (small number of) anarchists have settled down now"
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Ha the sons are still out there!!
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"I'd love a real fire
I have some paraffin if that's any good "
Well if I'm honest that's not quite what I had in mind  . At the moment I have an electric fire and surround,but it's just not working for me. I'd love to take it out and have a proper fire and a great focus point to the room |
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By *mmmMaybe OP Couple
over a year ago
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"I'd love a real fire
used to be a joke that if you wanted a real fire then buy a cottage in Wales..
think the (small number of) anarchists have settled down now"
We live in a small Essex village in an old timberframed weather boarded farm workers cottage. One year we were out front gardening and a bunch of loud American tourists (heard them before saw them) came into our "quaint" village. S really doesn't do loud very well & one very loud Texan lady was heard by us as she approached "My what a quaint house my kitchen is bigger" chuckle, chuckle then she asked S how old it was...
"We still owned you when it was built" was his gruff response..She didn't ask anything else..
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By (user no longer on site)
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Gas central heating here, but mums heating and hot water runs off the fire, so have spent several days at hers over the summer making sure she has enough to last and cutting it to size. Being good friends with a tree surgeon means a good supply, so she's all set even if it's a really shit winter. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I honestly can't wait for the day where once I'm in our own property to have a roaring open fire *sighs*...I've really rather jealous OP  "
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Open fires aren't really as efficient, you lose more heat up the chimney than what goes in your house.... That also goes for when the fire isn't lit but the heatings on |
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By *mmmMaybe OP Couple
over a year ago
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"Yep, I keep my chainsaw in the boot on the off chance I happen across a fallen limb. But anything I cut will be for next year "
S spent three days helping a local farmer cut down six fifty foot poplars last year, it's stacked on a row of 5' lengths on the farm waiting for when we need it, They took another three down at the beginning of this year but we need to mix timbers as the poplar is a pain on its own.
Sexy, pics coming your way in a mo..
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