Have you lit the fire yet?

adocholiday · 26-09-2016 08:38PM

Are ye feckin mad lads? We've had a muggy sweaty humid baxtard of a summer, and now that it's finally starting to get to a comfortable operating temperature and I can sleep at night ye are on about sticking on a fire! Bring on the frost I say

frozenfrozen · 26-09-2016 08:45PM

anyone have any chape loads of logs going in clare / limerick? have to be good and dry and no feck acting

The Backwards Man · 26-09-2016 08:47PM

Light it?

I never let it go out.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-09-2016 08:51PM

Put on a bloody jumper if you are cold

Right2Write · 26-09-2016 08:53PM

Yep, for a few hours in the evening.

corner of hells · 26-09-2016 09:12PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

I have a stupid gas fire that I never bother with

Would love a proper fire.

Apparently they're not that hard to get out.. but don't go near it yoursef.. but there's not much involved.. if you get my drift.. it's illegal according to the powers that be.
I know a bloke who remo...... sorry doorbell.

Sam Kade · 26-09-2016 09:15PM

Keenan Nutty Zeppelin wrote: »

Too warm yet for a fire or the heating. Sat in a t-shirt outside for coffee today and reading the paper. Far form chilly yet.

It's the women folk, they are cold creatures

26-09-2016 09:24PM

There's a fire lit every day at home. We still use fire to heat water for washbasins or when taking a bath, and as well as this, the house is very badly insulated; you would feel the cold at night-time on all but the warmest summer days.

keith16 · 26-09-2016 09:25PM

Won't feel the Christmas now.

GLaDOS · 26-09-2016 09:30PM

corner of hells wrote: »

Apparently they're not that hard to get out.. but don't go near it yoursef.. but there's not much involved.. if you get my drift.. it's illegal according to the powers that be.
I know a bloke who remo...... sorry doorbell.

Rental property so wouldn't be allowed touch it anyway

RayM · 26-09-2016 09:31PM

I don't have a fire, but I haven't put the heating on yet. I'm still going around in t-shirts.

mud · 26-09-2016 09:42PM

My house is freezing so I lit the fire a couple of nights last week. Pretty skint though so when it gets cold I tend to hibernate in my room rather than try to heat a few rooms.

I want to make one of those tea-light heaters, must look out for a terracotta pot and some bricks!

OldMrBrennan83 · 26-09-2016 09:44PM

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Satriale · 26-09-2016 09:46PM

Toughen up, Lads, it's roasting yet.

beertons · 02-10-2016 05:35PM

Lit it this evening. Good frost due again tonight, and got the chimney cleaned earlier.

suicide_circus · 02-10-2016 05:39PM

It was 3°c in Dublin city centre this morning

The Backwards Man · 02-10-2016 05:45PM

I woke up to three degrees this morning too.

Ooooooo precious moments.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 02-10-2016 05:50PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

I have a stupid gas fire that I never bother with

Would love a proper fire.

I had a gas fire.Couldn't afford to keep running it and the house was almost instantly freezing when it was switched off.
Paid a gas fitter €30 to disconnect the gas feed and ripped out the fire myself.
Fitted a insert stove.Got the walls pumped with insulation.
Best thing I ever did.Toasty.

boobar · 02-10-2016 06:09PM

Lit one last night, grand and toasty while we caught up on some low brow tv on sky plus.

GeneralVanilla · 02-10-2016 06:46PM

Just put on my first 'feckin cold isnt it' jumper of the year.

Back to the misery.

Sweetemotion · 02-10-2016 07:09PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

I had a gas fire.Couldn't afford to keep running it and the house was almost instantly freezing when it was switched off.
Paid a gas fitter €30 to disconnect the gas feed and ripped out the fire myself.
Fitted a insert stove.Got the walls pumped with insulation.
Best thing I ever did.Toasty.

Was just looking at insert stoves yesterday. Are you happy with it and do you lose more heat from an insert to a stand alone?

beertons · 02-10-2016 07:58PM

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Was just looking at insert stoves yesterday. Are you happy with it and do you lose more heat from an insert to a stand alone?

You don't lose heat, you gain. I got an insert as soon as I moved into this house, a great investment.

Sweetemotion · 02-10-2016 08:00PM

beertons wrote: »

You don't lose heat, you gain. I got an insert as soon as I moved into this house, a great investment.

Is it the same heat as a stand alone stove?

Sorry should have made it clearer.

colm_mcm · 02-10-2016 08:02PM

Open fire < inset stove < Normal stove
I thought?

Sweetemotion · 02-10-2016 08:09PM

colm_mcm wrote: »

Open fire < inset stove < Normal stove
I thought?

Thanks for that.

Aineoil · 02-10-2016 08:12PM

County Clare here. The fire was lit in August, I kid you not. Woeful summer, we didn't get two dry days back to back.

The fire is blazing away again tonight....wood logs and briquettes . We'll be using coal if the weather takes a colder turn. When I lived in Dublin we

had a gas fire. So easy to use, one push of a button and it was on, no cleaning out the grate the next day. But it was expensive to run if memory

serves me correctly.

beertons · 02-10-2016 08:13PM

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Is it the same heat as a stand alone stove?

Sorry should have made it clearer.

No idea. I'd imagine there's not much of a difference.

Sweetemotion · 02-10-2016 08:24PM

beertons wrote: »

No idea. I'd imagine there's not much of a difference.

My thinking was, that you would lose the heat from the top of the insert stove up the chimney. But I prefer the way they look.

Have two fires lit here. The stove in the kitchen heats the water and radiators and the open fire is lit because there is something special about an open fire and the dog loves laying in front of it.

Grew up in a cold house with the fire seldom lit, that's not happening in my own home.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 02-10-2016 08:32PM

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Was just looking at insert stoves yesterday. Are you happy with it and do you lose more heat from an insert to a stand alone?

Yes,I'm happy with it.
Yes,most of the heat goes up the chimney but it was a far better option to the Gas fire.

Mine is a non-boiler insert.Can't have a boiler stove or back boiler combined with a gas heating system.

Aineoil · 02-10-2016 08:35PM

Sweetemotion,

I grew up in a cold house too. That's not happening in my house either. But the cold made you get dressed very quickly in the morning.

Have you lit the fire yet?

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