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Best fuel for getting the most heat from the fire?

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    #62
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    Our apartment has a gas fire. It's extremely convenient. However I do like an open fire. I was skiing in St Anton last month. They had a beautiful open fire in one of the ski lodges. It was lovely to sit in front of the fire, having a glass of hot port, and hearing the crackle of the logs.


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    #63
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    My culchie said not to make it all wide :(

    I like that one. I want that one.


    Just wait for the coal to burn in then spread it out and put more bits of coal on top, just don't entirely cover it, and then put a few logs on from one side to another


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    #64
    CJ Haughey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭CJ Haughey


    Well seasoned black oak and black turf if you want heat.


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    #65
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,312 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Too bad turf is weather dependent

    Weather dependant my ass.


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    #66
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,383 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Ghost Train wrote: »
    Quark-gluon soup

    You need the good Swiss stuff, not the lower quality muck.


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    #67
    BD45
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    Precious flower wrote: »
    It's far from environmentally friendly. The reason why there has been a ban on harvesting turf in some areas is because it's destroying the natural habit that turf has formed in. The Dutch have been warning us for ages not to do what they did because it completely destroyed the bog habit and they regret it so much. But what do people do, ignore them and continue to illegal harvest turf. It's hardly the most clean or healthy. Turf is turf and is as bad any any other fuel. Why do people have to be putting that putrid smoke, especially in housing estates it's foul, into the environment we really need to move on to better means of heating homes.

    You can take my turf from cold dead hands, commie.


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    #68
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    mickdw wrote: »
    Weather dependant my ass.


    What good is cutting turf if it's wet


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    #69
    The Backwards Man
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    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    What good is cutting turf if it's wet
    You don't cut them when it's wet, you cut them when it's dry. That's time dependent, not weather dependent.


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    #70
    DoYouEvenLift
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    You don't cut them when it's wet, you cut them when it's dry. That's time dependent, not weather dependent.


    It was absolutely pissing basically any chance my relatives had to cut. After turf is cut it's stacked to dry on the bog


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    #71
    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    Our apartment has a gas fire. It's extremely convenient. However I do like an open fire. I was skiing in St Anton last month. They had a beautiful open fire in one of the ski lodges. It was lovely to sit in front of the fire, having a glass of hot port, and hearing the crackle of the logs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUo93Hw7LSw


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    #72
    Galwayguy35
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    I have an open fire and use a mix of coal and seasoned ash timber, great for the cold nights.


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    #73
    anncoates
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    Precious flower wrote: »
    it completely destroyed the bog habit

    You'll never destroy Backwards Man's bog habits.


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    #74
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Deleted User wrote: »
    i AM!

    She left me with strict instructions. I'm trying I'm trying.

    Is the fire still going, whoops? Between this and the rugby match I'm at the edge of my comfy chair!


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
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    Preusse wrote: »
    Is the fire still going, whoops? Between this and the rugby match I'm at the edge of my comfy chair!

    Its alright. Not brilliant but not the worst I suppose!

    https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10989367_10153237274850984_8589332103534359203_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9


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    #76
    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its alright. Not brilliant but not the worst I suppose!

    https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10989367_10153237274850984_8589332103534359203_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9

    Well done! Keep it going! now back to the rugby... :D


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    #77
    Menas
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its alright. Not brilliant but not the worst I suppose!

    https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10989367_10153237274850984_8589332103534359203_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9

    Do you live in Peig Sayer's house?!


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    #78
    starlit
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    Timber or a log if you can't get turf?


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    #79
    [Deleted User]
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    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Do you live in Peig Sayer's house?!

    I wish I did, then I'd have turf and proper coal.


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    #80
    heldel00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Preusse wrote: »
    Whatever you do, don't let it go out. Feed it. FEED IT! :eek:

    My cousin used to live with a Spanish lad. one night she was headin away for an hour or two and she says to yer man "watch the fire", he says "que?" and she says "keep an eye on it."
    Arrives home a while later to see yer man sat as close to the fire as he could get and he says "I've been looking but nothing happened!"


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    #81
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    Solid fuel central heating using antracite. Whole house warm for the same price as keeping one room warm using an open fire. Only drawback is that OFCH is needed too in the morning if you want to be warm before the range is lit. The combination of the two is the perfect heating system in my opinion.


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    #82
    mickdw
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    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    What good is cutting turf if it's wet

    You cut turf in its wet state. It dries over a number of weeks when handled properly.
    There has not been a summer yet when turf could not be got so it cannot be deemed weather dependant.
    Sure the commercial harvesters would have good or bad years depending on the weather but as far as saving turf for a household, it will dry, good year or bad.


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    #83
    The lazy rat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭The lazy rat


    1 bag of Polish coal delivered to the coal bunker=17euro

    1 bag of English coal collected from the yard in the boot of the car half a km away=10.90euro.

    No more deliveries for me thank you.


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    #84
    Lapin
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Anyone who puts dirty foreign coal in their fire deserves to be fcuked down the nearest shaft.....

    What about Irish coal?

    Of which I am told there is shítloads, but its just cheaper to import the stuff from Poland.

    Apparently we have plenty of coal mines here but our feral youth are just too damn lazy to get themselves down the pits and do a hard days graft.

    We could have dozens of huge coal fired power stations here burning Irish coal and making Irish ESB which we could be selling to places like Wales.

    But no, our youth would rather be hanging around street corners smoking drugs and spending the taxpayers money on cheap booze and the like.

    And all the while our bogs are being destroyed and the squirrels are being made homeless and nature is being ruined because of all the cheap imported coal.

    Bloody Polish coal putting our youth out of work.

    It's outrageous . :mad:


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    #85
    Littlekittylou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    You remove the fire guard sit close ...with your loved one and snuggle!


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    #86
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Or better still, have your loved one remove the fireguard and get them to throw a few more sods on the fire and then bring you another cup of tay. ;)


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    #87
    hadoken13
    Registered Users Posts: 630 ✭✭✭hadoken13


    Throw petrol on it.


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    #88
    [Deleted User]
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    Update:

    Due to a slight over indulgence of guinness and whiskey last night I fell asleep on the sofa. Fortunately, I woke up just in time to save the fire.

    Phew.


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    #89
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I can't light a fire to save my life :o

    I buy a fire pack, then top it up with coal, and even at that it ends up failing miserably.

    I'd love to be able to have a big fire on the go all day but doesn't happen.

    I have a theory Whoops. I saw the pic of your fireplace ( lovely) and I think the problem is simply that the fireplace is too big for the size of fire you are putting on. I'm not very good at explaining the physics but imagine you have a little pile of sticks like matchsticks and you put them in a little can and light them. If you keep adding more to the littlr fire, each mstch stick will burn fully til its all black and can't burn anymore. Also, the can will be hot.
    Now, do the same thing with the little pile of sticks but this time in a big toasting tin. The sticks will probably only hslf burn before going out,or will burn fully but only with help. This is because there's too much air ,so there's flame but its burning too fast to geta hold on the sticks. Also,the tin won't be hot as the heat generated was too little and too far away.
    Anyway,something like that. You need a smaller fireplace or a bigger fire.
    I'm sure I'm right but I'm not 100% sure why I'm right.
    :-) :-)


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    #90
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,383 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I wish I did, then I'd have turf and proper coal.

    True, but Peig had terrible wi-fi.


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    #91
    [Deleted User]
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    fineso.mom wrote: »
    I have a theory Whoops. I saw the pic of your fireplace ( lovely) and I think the problem is simply that the fireplace is too big for the size of fire you are putting on.
    :-) :-)

    I normally make the fire wider but my culchie said to start it off small and then build it from there, so it ended up the full width of the grate.

    Seemed to work. My first successful all day fire built without a fire pack \o/


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