Burning firewood floor sweepings

[difflock]

 This rubbish needs getting rid of somehow and puts out enough heat for the early autumn or spring, and btw it "stays in" overnight, not that that is a consideration.

Without the air  being  throttled back.

So the flue should still be clean?

Thoughts?

[Dan Maynard]

Does it burn cleanly or is there smoke? If it flares up and then glows like charcoal then I don't see a problem.

[difflock]

Well Dan, I have not seen any smoke emanating from the  chimney pot outside?

And mostly burns showing flames, though if left undisturbed for a good period,  neither smoke nor flames to be seen, so I suppose it must be burning like charcoal as you suggest.

Cheers,

Marcus.

Edited Saturday at 09:54 by difflock

[GarethM]

From using in a big boiler, decent bed of embers and small scoops, once done don't open the door until it's disappeared or you can get a flare up.

[Canal Navvy]

You do need to keep a flame going when burning sweepings, if you have a blanket of fines covering the smoulder the gasses creep up through without igniting. Only takes a slight change in chimney draught for the off gas to go up along with the top of the stove 😁

 

[difflock]

We appear to be 100% O.K.

[GarethM]

Return your "Man" card immediately!.

 

It's that warm & sunny outside I'm actually sweating on the log pile. That's from a man that gets called nesh sleeping in a god only knows how many 15+ togg winter duvet all year round and still feels cold.

[difflock]

Ere mate!

Wees is well "oop North" an forby that well out to the West, so more wind exposure.

And anyway tha heat is mostly for the wife.

Though as I lie here post lunch, tis touching 25 in here in a wee blink of afternoon Sun.

I need to summon my willpower and get back to welding at the  rather rusty Parsons Egg aka the Black Bollix which is to say a 1989 G Wagen that the previous owner got bogged ( but undisclosed to me) on a beach.

Scabs of solid rust the size of a playing card and fully 4mm thick falling out of, what is left of, the cills.

So far I have removed the full of a black bucket of underseal, rust and rusty bits of steel.

Etc etc etc.

[GarethM]

You get one free pass what with it being on the bosses orders, but wouldn't they take your hard Scottish passports away instead of the wussy Man card ? 😉.

 

I thought they put central heating users on some form of questionable watch lists, their version of the American communist kinda thing?.

Edited Saturday at 14:55 by GarethM

[difflock]

Despite being in Northern Ireland, tis now positively balmy here this evening.