Has anyone put their central heating on yet?

[mr t]

They dont spread it on pathways do they? At least Ive never known it. The grit bins are provided by them on streets for the residents to spread it outside their homes and on the paths

I bought some rock salt today - £6.95 for a 20 kg bag.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Sorry to hear that from you BM, always thought you were a caring chap. Like u.g. I have a chronic lung condition. For the past months of struggling to breathe, I've been in contact with the environmental health regarding a chap a few houses down. He was shipping his building mate's waste, inclusive of upvc window's into his garden and burning it. Obviously saving them a few bob from legitimate disposal sites. He was given an immediate written warning, the burning outside ceased but I could still smell the same acrid stench. Some night's as you walk out you're hit with this wall of poison.
The EH team asked me to get some more proof of his actions, ie, had he stuck a wood burner in one of his outside sheds, but not being a Frank Marker found it difficult.
The other week I managed to get the EH to come down and although sympathetic said they needed more proof.
Had a chat with a neighbour who informed me there is a chap in the opposite direction who has a wood burner and who also owns a reclaimed woodyard, he certainly ain't using bone fide kiln dried wood. Not long after, due to another breathless,chest crushing, heart bouncing evening, I gave the property a visit, and yes, I was met with wall of poison. What people don't realise this nightmare that is the log burner creeps into your property like some latter day Trollenberg Terror, it gets into your every room, no exceptions, with literally breath taking results.
My last few weeks, health wise has been probably the worst in my life, every night excessive phlegm production being restricted by constricted passage ways.
After nearly a week in bed
I managed to get in contact with my consultant, who agreed to supply me with steroids for the first time ever. Took my first dose yesterday with surprisingly immediate results, that was until the dreaded terror returned. Just another sleepless, cough laden night ensued, thus getting my head bitten off by the missus this morning.
As I sit here now, I can taste and smell this
unwanted guest, burning nostrils, sore throat, with dysfunctional lungs, certainly not looking forward to tonight.
Guess what, the arseholes who have produced this nightmare, don't give a shit, they're saving money.

Sorry to hear that pal, I didn’t mean it to those extremes but if you have a bit of waste wood and you’re freezing I’d burn it. You are right about the twats in charge as well.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I bought some rock salt today - £6.95 for a 20 kg bag.

Very proud of you mate

 

[remember arthur mann]

Sorry to hear that pal, I didn’t mean it to those extremes but if you have a bit of waste wood and you’re freezing I’d burn it. You are right about the twats in charge as well.

The sad thing being, I was looking forward to carrying on the fight to recover our fresh air but after a phone call this evening to my sister who lives roughly a quarter of a mile away, she's noticed recently, quite a few of these misused monsters we're popping up near her, same scenario, any junk being burnt in them. I see an increase in lung damage coming up, pretty sad that after we'd turned the corner in improving lung health care. Not to sound like Goldbridge, think of me as the canary down the mine, hypersensitive to the toxins that are floating about, totally fear for young undeveloped lungs.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Saw a programme which said 8 million people have log burners and they produce more pollution than all the cars in the country! So it’s your fault global warming ;)

The pollution (CO2) given off by log burners burning logs is the same amount of CO2 that would be given off should that wood decompose naturally, only a lot quicker....which in turn is taken up by trees and converted into wood, then carbon, then wood etc etc and so the cycle starts again, except we'll all be dead.

 

[Banshee]

In our case it’s the bloody windows that are mentioned in the listing. So no double glazing for us.

When I first moved out here, we had a huge bedroom window that was underneath a deck. Never saw the sun and in the first winter we had 2 inches of ice on the sill every morning. I'd spend forever trying to defrost it, using bath towels to mop it up etc was a nightmare. Was told to put bubble wrap across. Amazed me the difference it made.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

To give us a bit more privacy in the bathroom we recently put some translucent patterned film on the glass.
It has completely stopped any condensation.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Sorry to hear that from you BM, always thought you were a caring chap. Like u.g. I have a chronic lung condition. For the past months of struggling to breathe, I've been in contact with the environmental health regarding a chap a few houses down. He was shipping his building mate's waste, inclusive of upvc window's into his garden and burning it. Obviously saving them a few bob from legitimate disposal sites. He was given an immediate written warning, the burning outside ceased but I could still smell the same acrid stench. Some night's as you walk out you're hit with this wall of poison.
The EH team asked me to get some more proof of his actions, ie, had he stuck a wood burner in one of his outside sheds, but not being a Frank Marker found it difficult.
The other week I managed to get the EH to come down and although sympathetic said they needed more proof.
Had a chat with a neighbour who informed me there is a chap in the opposite direction who has a wood burner and who also owns a reclaimed woodyard, he certainly ain't using bone fide kiln dried wood. Not long after, due to another breathless,chest crushing, heart bouncing evening, I gave the property a visit, and yes, I was met with wall of poison. What people don't realise this nightmare that is the log burner creeps into your property like some latter day Trollenberg Terror, it gets into your every room, no exceptions, with literally breath taking results.
My last few weeks, health wise has been probably the worst in my life, every night excessive phlegm production being restricted by constricted passage ways.
After nearly a week in bed
I managed to get in contact with my consultant, who agreed to supply me with steroids for the first time ever. Took my first dose yesterday with surprisingly immediate results, that was until the dreaded terror returned. Just another sleepless, cough laden night ensued, thus getting my head bitten off by the missus this morning.
As I sit here now, I can taste and smell this
unwanted guest, burning nostrils, sore throat, with dysfunctional lungs, certainly not looking forward to tonight.
Guess what, the arseholes who have produced this nightmare, don't give a shit, they're saving money.

I believe wood burners in urban areas will be the next health volte face after diesel and will ultimately be banned in cities.

 

[remember arthur mann]

I believe wood burners in urban areas will be the next health volte face after diesel and will ultimately be banned in cities.

I sincerely hope so.
I've just finished my nebuliser, I use two medications, twice a day. Having been pretty upbeat about results, to now come crashing down within minutes, due to the relief being nullified by these toxins.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Pretty cold tonight!