It's toasty here though.

 

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Open the door ...Spread the heat around...

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Flip that's toasty.

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Can't beat a burner

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Warm enough here we still have the windows open. Still haven't needed the heating on since last winter, and I have a wife who only has to look at a snowflake to feel cold. Another balmy summers evening here complete with tropical thundery outbreak.

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At first glance, I thought it was a view looking out of your window, and there was a neighbour's barn on fire! lol!

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Hmmm....Looks like a burner (after I adjusted my eye 😉 ), feels like a burner...why can't it be?

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Chuck another log on, Mr Scrooge! 

 

We've just gone for a wood-burner too. Quite impressed with the efficiency - check out the "secondary burn" of the waste gases that would otherwise go up the chimney. Looks pretty too 

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Yes there's quite a knack to getting the best from them.

Ours is a multifuel stove which also runs radiators. You get best output with the odd bit or two of coal under a couple of logs.
The crucial thing is to have dry wood which has been cut at least a year, and really needs to be split and kept under cover for at least 3 months. 
If it's used almost daily you do get through a great deal of wood, ours is 'free' but still needs a fair bit of work to gather it up in good time. 

It's fascinating to see which variety burns best.
Ash is almost certainly best, but very dry oak is good too and lasts almost twice as long.
A surprisingly good one is Hawthorn we've had a fair bit of that from doing hedge rejuvenation work the last few years. 

 

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Mine is wood only (actually it is a multifuel stove but the installer said that unless I went for a more expensive flue liner then acid from coal would corrode it, and I mostly burnt wood in the open fire anyway).

I'm trying to put out feelers for supplies of free wood. As luck would have it the weekend the stove was fitted, a friend was chucking out several lengths of old solid beech kitchen worktop (Ikea butcher block stuff). It didn't look that much but now I've cut half of it up into chunks with a circular saw it makes a decent size stack of wood - should keep me going for a while!

Even using a power saw it's quite hard work - once I'd finished sawing I was so warm I didn't need the fire on anyway...

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Been walking past the dim lite pubs and the welcoming open fires. Love winter. Could do with one at work now. 😉

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Mmmmmmmm. Toasty.

I remember back in my council gardening days when the work's hut had a little wood burner stove in the middle of the room and how it had three heat settings; stone cold, blast furnace and total meltdown.

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