You can check if your home is subject to smokeless controls by going on to your local council planning portal and checking your address. Each property has details of applicable constraints. All of Watford is in a Smoke Control Area.
I recommend spending all the money you might have wasted on energy bills on drugs and alcohol instead . Guaranteed to stave off the cold and a whole lot more fun in the process. See you all in rehab in Spring .
Just remember: set yourself on fire in your drug-induced haze and you'll be warm for the rest of your life. #LifeHacks
In a similar vein, petrol powered garden equipment is also more damaging to the environment than cars. Emissions Test: Car vs. Truck vs. Leaf Blower | Edmunds Seems incredible, but apparently true. One of the more pithy lines: Amazing really (for those not familiar with US vehicle models, the Ford Raptor is a flatbed truck with a 6.2 litre V8 engine).
Ah. But what they didn’t measure was CO2 - the greenhouse gas. You can bet your life the Raptor produced far, far more of this. The article looks to me like a way of subtlety saying gas guzzling trucks aren’t so bad, because leaf blowers emit lots of pollutants per minute.
Blowing leaves around has to be one of the daftest waste of time ever invented. Let the worms sort them out.
Better, but still a waste of time. It’s in the leaf litter that all your lovely garden bugs over-winter in and where your Robin Redbreast will go looking for them. Come Spring, they’ve all blown away and the lawn looks just fine, refreshed by a bit of leaf mulch.
Yes fine for small trees and flower beds, but not when you have 3-4 inches of semi-rotting wet leaves on your lawn from large trees and hope to have any grass left in the spring !
Good idea. Human male urine keeps foxes away apparently. I may offer my services to my widowed neighbour.
If you want a top qulality ornamental lawn then you should really clear it of fallen leaves. By rake of just let the mower pick them up with the clippings which also shouldn't be left on. Mind you I bet most on here have got astroturf and as such just fling the Dyson round for a few minutes.
Wood burning, if you don’t live rurally without supply, is the domestic equivalent of a hipster beard.
I'm sitting here, drinking my IPA (which will annoy @hornmeister too) and thinking that's good. How can fire be a bad thing? It's literally what separates us from the beasts!
Nothing wrong with an IPA (I just cant handle them) unless it comes in a half sized can & costs more than a fiver and is infused with something like guava or avacado.
An open fire can be aesthetically pleasing for sure, but it’s also giving off shedloads of carcinogenic particles, most of which go up the chimney and stink out your neighbours, but a good proportion linger in your room and in you and your family’s lungs. I grew up in a house with an open fire, (no central heating) and while I loved lighting it and warming my chestnuts in front of it, I certainly wouldn’t do that now any more than I would smoke. You’ve no Mammoth to roast on one now. We’ve moved on.
I have a wood burner, not an open fire. It's supposed to be more efficient and as I use only exceptionally dry wood, cleaner too. Hopefully nobody needs to get cancer.
Well better for sure, but still polluting according to the research. My gripe is with open fires. One can stink out the whole street and I know the one I mean.
Had the first wood stove fire of the season. Filled me with joy, (or was that the bottle of Portuguese red and a few glasses of Port), anyway its probably more toxic than nuclear electricity. And less efficient than gas; but it was four hours of joy - watching the flames and seeing the thermostat hit 400F.
Last winter if it got cold we would put the central heating on for 15 minutes or so then switch off as the radiators would stay hot for a considerable amount of time apart from the bathroom that is . Off piste , those dehumidifiers are amazing . Thoroughly recommend.
Who’s moved on? There’s a lot of things we don’t need to do but we do. Having fires isn’t a need, but it’s a pleasure and can be very communal. Like sharing a workspace. If we followed your logic and stopped doing things that have a health risk then we’d all work from home, die alone and there’d be no one around to burn the bodies.
That’s not my logic at all. Having fires and going to work is a ludicrous comparison. Why should someone else’s pleasure be compelled upon others? I thought we’d gone past the days when smokers forces their carcinogenic pollutants on everyone. Now, because you want to look at pretty flames, kids have to breath poisoned air in the colder months. Absolutely insane that one house in ten on some streets is spaffing out more pollution than the rest combined.
Jeez how bad is it getting that people cant put the heating on and are putting tea lights under plant pots to stay warm. All while our owners and rulers make record profits.
They are all exactly the same though. All politicians. At least that is the completely good faith argument I have heard and believe. The Billionaire Nepotistic Lying Etonian Narcissists on the one hand are exactly the same as Labour. That isn't an argument meant to cause voter apathy and hopelessness at all in those who might vote against them
