BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Nick
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 10:56 AM

I considered setting fire to it all but...

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 10:55 AM

That’ll warm you up, Nick. Hadn’t thought of it like that!

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Nick
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 10:53 AM

In light of the Global Warming thread, I have decided to abandon the thought of having a fir e and instead have started the rather tedious job of burying the 500kg of coal I have just purchased

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: DaveRo
Date: 10 Oct 17 - 02:52 AM

Smokeless zones seem to have become Smoke_control_areas

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 10:20 PM

In many urban places in California, it is illegal to burn in a fireplace on certain days, usually when an an inversion layer traps smoke close to the ground. We're in a rural area and burn in a stove approved by the Environmental Protection Agency, so we're exempt. But we still get a lot of smoke in the area on certain days, and it can be hard to breathe.
Most of the time, the bothersome smoke is from wildfires and is uncontrollable; but occasionally on especially cold days in the winter, it's from fireplaces. Well-designed heating stoves help a lot.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 08:54 PM

They're probably doing illegal things. Ask at your town hall. Here in the middle of westcountry-nowhere no-one gives a damn. We burn mostly smokeless fuel, though we don't have to (Homefire Ovals is what we buy), topped up with a bit of wood that I've cut meself and dried for a few months. Burning wet or unseasoned wood, or cheap coal, is bad news not only for the environment but also for your chimbley.

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 08:40 PM

I live in a densely inhabited town centre.
I don't know what the local laws are concerning smokey chimneys.
But every winter just one home a few streets away belches smoke every evening,
and pollutes the entire area.

Throughout winter, we still need slightly open windows to reduce condensation damp;
so the whole back of the house reeks of smoke...

I know which house it is, and it has a horse box parked outside.

We can just imagine their idealised little cosey countrified winter evenings at home,
completely oblivious to the discomfort they cause all other terraced homes for several streets down wind... ??

.. and yes I did grow up on a terraced estate in the 60s and 70s
where we all burned coal & coke fires and paraffin heaters ..
No middle class central heating [or fitted carpets and telephones]

But it's the 21st century now, and urban communities are more aware of good healthy environment....

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 08:28 PM

I used to think of wildfires as a summer occurrence here in Northern California, and I'd breathe a sigh of relief in September. But recently, the fire season has extended to October. The temperatures are lower, but the winds seem to be higher. There's one heck of a fire burning in the California Wine Country right now.
But it's almost to the point where we'll want to start heating our house. We heat with wood in a "fireplace insert" that burns wood safely and efficiently. We're allowed to use it any time of the year, but we won't be allowed to have open fires outside until maybe November. Our outdoor burning permits were suspended June 28.

-Joe, in wildfire country-

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 08:03 PM

for Celts it is always time for a fire!
Whether indoors in the hearth or stove or an open air bonfire, summer or winter- the magic of the flames, the songs and stories, the sadness and laughter....alone or in a gathering, a blazing hot conflagration or even just a flickering candle flame - fire is an essential component of the singers of songs and tellers of tales, the makers of music.

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 05:19 PM

Getting all mine delivered at once saved me over fifty quid. I have got space to store it but not where the coal man can drive to. I therefore have big muscles at the moment, girls. as well as my Madeira tan (rapidly fading,so hurry). Now that’s what I call a special offer...

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Nick
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 05:11 PM

10 bags of coal delivered last week. I can hear it whispering from the coal shed some nights when the wind is from the north.

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 05:02 PM

We have two stoves, and one of them has been lit with just a small conflagration most nights for the last couple of weeks. Chimbley sweep coming on Thursday. Ton and a half of smokeless delivered last Friday, on special offer. Sawed up a load of logs two days ago. Get yer fire lit, Nick!

Subject: RE: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Raggytash
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 04:43 PM

An open fire .............. bliss............go on light it tonight, you can always open a window if it gets too warm, and if you have some peat to put on it so much the better.

Subject: BS: What date is it ok to light an open fire
From: Nick
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 03:29 PM

I like autumn and winter. And one of the highlights - apart from homemade soup - is open fires. The weather is still mild but it was a bit chilly last week.

Is it too early to even be thinking about it? Do I need to wait for November?

In UK. Temperature still over 50F. Next Monday is coller - perhaps mid 40s - so perhaps an excuse then.

Looking for an excuse for guilty pleasure that I know is not really necessary...