Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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Madness. Burn the right fuel and burn it properly - either proprietary stuff or just good old dry wood - and it's fine. The issue is people burn damp wood or try to just have a little bit of a fire. Neither will burn properly or hot enough to ensure more complete combustion. It's incomplete combustion that causes the soot.
I do wonder if half of the people with log burners have them for those two or three days when they have people round and so have no idea how to run them properly. A bit like the people that only use the village pub at Christmas - and usually call it "our pub". Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
2nd Feb 2023 11:46 pm
Scott #55
Member Since: 15 Apr 2015
Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1664
And buy their wood from the local supermarket. Chances of it being seasoned or kiln-dried quite low.2014 - D4 2010 HSE Nara Bronze
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3rd Feb 2023 1:53 pm
robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 2392
Well, it might have been properly seasoned and dried, but it was last seen either floating round the car park, or sitting under the (leaking) roof drain on the garage forecourt....Rob Smith
Silver rools OK
3rd Feb 2023 1:56 pm
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6266
my bike standing alone unused so i took it out lol
3rd Feb 2023 3:09 pm
sarumlight
Member Since: 07 Nov 2008
Location: Off the Plain
Posts: 1590
“A bit like the people that only use the village pub at Christmas - and usually call it "our pub".” - love this. Although thank goodness strange pubs are a lot easier to use than lighting a different wood burner for the first time!
3rd Feb 2023 8:01 pm
HOODIE
Member Since: 20 Feb 2011
Location: Great Notley
Posts: 77
If that bl***y McDonalds advert comes on again I’m going to scream.😱
Can’t believe people get paid for thinking them up 🙄🤬
5th Feb 2023 9:35 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 13882
Liz Truss - she fkd the UK economy, yet its other peoples fault?
When will politicians take responsibility for their mistakes? New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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5th Feb 2023 11:05 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13080
She blamed the left wing even though it was the money men that backed off from her plans. That was what killed her idea.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
5th Feb 2023 11:22 pm
mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2477
15K and 60k gift bags at the grammy awards ceremony how the F%%% can they walk through the streets and not feel the shame smacks of the french revoulution attitudeMY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
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6th Feb 2023 9:27 am
robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 2392
Walk????
More like crawl into the waiting limo....Rob Smith
Silver rools OK
6th Feb 2023 3:42 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13080
Most of that headline value is in the form of vouchers for things like liposuction, although there is four-figure jewellery in there too, apparently.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
6th Feb 2023 3:46 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1480
I took the motorcycle out today, just a couple of miles down the road to warm up then put it back in the garage.
Bear in mind, it’s not exactly a quiet machine, it’s got LED headlamps on all the time and I was driving it slowly, about 20mph, just about to turn into my drive, when ……
A muppet of a motorist in a car waiting to turn onto the road I am on, looking in my direction, waits until I am almost on top of him to pull out across my lane. Thankfully my brakes worked, cos the cars one didn’t!
What a silly billy!
7th Feb 2023 4:53 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8051
Lloyds bank sending me an envelope stuffed with waste paper to tell me interest rates are up so therefore my credit card charges are to increase (I rarely use it and zero it every month if I do).
Don't remember such attention to detail or speed regarding current and savings account, oh that's because they didn't increase
10th Feb 2023 1:09 pm
al cope
Member Since: 08 Nov 2005
Location: Oldbury, WM
Posts: 10296
^^ This is why I like my Chase account, within a few day of Bank of England rates going up, they automatically put their saver interest rate up. 👍
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10th Feb 2023 2:51 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13080
A number of car "goat getters":
1. People driving around in heavy mist / fog with no lights on. Just because it's day time and you can see the road at the end of your bonnet, doesn't mean you're visible to others!
2. DRLs. Why, when they were mandated, did they not make them a requirement at the rear too? At least that way, the idiots in point 1. would have some light showing to the rear even though they're too stupid to realise they need it.
3. "I indicated!" - people who indicate and immediately start to change lanes irrespective of what may already be in the destination lane. Usually MLOC members who decide they need to overtake something for a change and just indicate and go for L3. Good job others ARE paying attention.
4. Fog lights on all day - even though the mist cleared two hours ago, I'm going to keep my fog light on for the entire journey. What? You expect me to pay attention, show some respect to others and turn the light off when it's not needed?
Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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