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Old and unwanted gas bottles are just ideal for a small firepit Open firepits are all the rage these days as we try to maximise garden living on those ‘not quite warm enough’ evenings and lets be honest, there are plenty of those! I saw an ‘open dish’ type firepit in a local store but it was on sale for rather more than I’d like to pay, (I am a bit cheap) but then I thought I could see a similar shape in an old steel gas bottle, hmm…. Here …
From a section of a rotten tree… OK, I have to be honest, the title of this post is a little misleading because I didn’t actually make this particular nest box; the woodpecker did! (I’ll give you a tip later though for yours). Let me tell you the story. Last week we had some unusually windy days and on the final stormy day a pair of old rotten trees blew down over the stream at the bottom of the garden. One of these trees was our ‘woodpecker’ tree. An old, …
Everybody likes a good fire don’t they? But sometimes they are a little dangerous and even against the law at certain times of the year. So the easiest way to ensure fire safety is to contain your fires by having them inside something that allows you to control it and prevent it from spreading. This is a scaled down version of a 200L (40 gallon) old oil drum that we used at work to burn diseased wood from house demolitions. I do apologize, but many wood worm were harmed in …
Using the Atmosfire wood stove dry wipe glass cleaner. The first week with our new wood burning stove was a bittersweet time, I loved the fire but I hated the sooty glass each morning. I tried the web and found all sorts of solutions, from rubbing with damp newspaper and wood ash to using expensive, messy chemicals. Plus I seem to have to scrub hard to get it sparkling again. Then I found a dry wipe called ‘Atmosfire’ and my troubles were over. A few seconds each morning literally wipes …
We finally decided the old open fireplace had to go this winter as burning a whole stack of firewood over 4 or 5 hours would only lift the room temperature by a measly one degree. Mostly because it had to heat over half a ton of bricks and concrete first! As much as we loved to look at the open fire, we really needed an enclosed wood stove which burns much less wood and provides much, much more heat. Prices ranged from a few hundred pounds up to a few …
Turns out I’ve been lighting fires completely the wrong way my whole life! We all know the method, you place some small stuff at the bottom, then some slightly bigger stuff followed by even bigger stuff in a pile, boy scout style right? Well, no. When you do it that way the small flames from the starting kindling ends up licking around all the bigger timber higher up, smothering the flames and creating lots of smoke. Sure it gets going after making a lot of smoke, but there is a …
