to keep thinking my house is burning down???

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someone down my road as obviously either just installed a real fire or has opened up a fire and has just started using it

I keep smelling burning and going round the house trying to sniff it out

it's really anoying!

who lives in a big city and has a real fire ffs??!

Aren't most cities smoke-free these days? Is it coal or wood smoke you're smelling? A bonfire, even?

it smells like a bonfire but has been going on for about 6 weeks now in all weathers

starts up between 6 & 8 most nights and goes on until about 11

I live in a victorian terrace so all of the houses have working 'chimblies' as the dc call them

Sounds like someone has installed a wood-burner. If you can still smell it, it might be worth seeing if you can identify which chimney is emitting the smoke, and having a word with your local council's Environmental Health, if yours is a smoke-free city.

who lives in a big city and has a real fire ffs??!

cold people? :)

Nowt like a open fire.....but soz its bothering you. Didn't realise that some cities were smoke free...

Edinburgh went "smoke-free" about, um 20 odd years ago? I still had an open fire but had to use "smokeless fuel", don't think a wood-burner would have been allowed then. But it depends on where the OP lives, I think it's a local thing.

We have an open fire here- a mid size provincial town. Everybody in our road does it - we burn logs - it's a bit Dickensian I suppose, but it is fab on a night like last night. The heating is on - it's more for the atmosphere, and the sight of the dogs curled up in front of it dreaming. Not v environmentally sound, but it's a good business for the log provider. I've even bought a toasting fork this year, after watching Wives and Daughters - not that I have worked out how to use it without dropping melted bits of cheese etc all over the floor. Might try it for the first time tonight, as snow is on its way.

I live in Leeds and have no idea if it's smoke free or not?

Smoke control zones.

I love the smell of a real fire...

If it smells of bonfires its probably not coal or wood they're burning but paper and household burnable rubbish.... any squats on the street?

I'd certainly be phoning environmental health.

We have a real fire most nights (country dwellers) and its lurvely, but you can hardly smell it in the lane (Unless the wind's blowing in the right direction) so I worry that you can smell it so strongly.

Mmm real fires.

A lot of wood burners these days satisfy smokeless regulations.

We live off mains gas and a lot of people use solid fuel for heating. We are also in a smoke free zone (although this i a bit of a joke and nobody sticks to it, don't blame them, why put an area where most people survive on solid fuel smoke free? Anyway I digress.) At this time of year most fires are on 24/7 but still in the the morning and again around teatime when everyone is riddling the ash and stoking the fire up again after being damped down all night/all day while they were at work you can smell it. I adore that smell.

I live in Leeds & have a log burner :)

I don't think you're smelling me tho, I only just lit it