Cleaning tip.

Another tip for gardeners, use the ash for growing spuds, had the best potatoes ever grown where we used to have the bonfire every year.
 
yorkieowl said:
Another tip for gardeners, use the ash for growing spuds, had the best potatoes ever grown where we used to have the bonfire every year.
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Maggy always collects ash for the garden, on one of our dog walks they cut the hedges down and burn them so every few hundred yards there is a pile of ash, they used to use petrol to start the fire so no good to us but after complaints it is just set on fire with paper so now ideal for the garden
 
Even better tip.
Move to a country where its nice and warm.
Use electric heating., when necessary.

Job sorted.
 
Pauljenny said:
Even better tip.
Move to a country where its nice and warm.
Use electric heating., when necessary.

Job sorted.
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We woke to find the van Silverscreen completely frozen in East Algarve the other day! It was a bit parky in the evening and needed heat in the van as well as hot water bottles! It was exceptionally warm in central Portugal with the forest fires....lots of charcoal and ash round our place too.
 
I'm sure they exist but I've never seen a motorhome with a woodburner
 
helen262 said:
What a good idea how much spare room have you got ?
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You know where we live, so there's no hiding place for us,
We can always find you a flat space to park.
If you've got nerves of steel and. A van under 6.5 metres...
You can park next to ours.
 
i just read an article and now cant find the link by a devon fireservices who were called to a monoxide alarm going off. It was in a lounge containing a log burner. The owner emptied the ash daily but left the ashes in a bucket on the fire place. The ashes give off toxic fumes and the owner could have been dead in 3 hours had they not had the alarm.

The embers at the bottom of the bucket were red hot and still live.

Firemen say it is vital to take the ash outside as soon as you empty them out of the burner.
 
delicagirl said:
i just read an article and now cant find the link by a devon fireservices who were called to a monoxide alarm going off. It was in a lounge containing a log burner. The owner emptied the ash daily but left the ashes in a bucket on the fire place. The ashes give off toxic fumes and the owner could have been dead in 3 hours had they not had the alarm.

The embers at the bottom of the bucket were red hot and still live.

Firemen say it is vital to take the ash outside as soon as you empty them out of the burner.
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Yes, its lethal, I never realised how much until I read an article about camping deaths a few years ago, something like this:

Deaths prompt BBQ warning for campers - Telegraph

A good reminder, thanks for posting.
 
indeed it is a salutary warning ....... my new home has a wood burner which i have not yet used ... so i am looking for a metal ash bucket ....
 
delicagirl said:
indeed it is a salutary warning ....... my new home has a wood burner which i have not yet used ... so i am looking for a metal ash bucket ....
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Or an old metal dustbin.

Around here it would be one of the used cooking oil drums with get dumped on the pavement.

:wave:
 
helen262 said:
I have been cleaning our stove glass like that for years except I just wet newspaper dip it into the ash then use a dry piece of newspaper to buff it,up then just throw the newspaper into the stove and burn it,that way I don't have any mucky cloths to wash.
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Great minds etc . . . ;)
 
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