the Doctor wrote:We use cotton wool balls soaked in ethanol as firelighters...we have used them for years and have found them great fire starters.
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the Doctor wrote:we have 4 ethanol fires...1 in our Speakeasy and 3 heating our house... we measure and ensure sufficient air exchange in every room and have monoxide & gas alarms... in short we are very careful....We live in a bloody freezing spot in the highlands.... As much as we love our ethanol fireplaces, I am loathed to ever recommend them to others for the simple reason that they burn clear for the first minute and sometimes for up to 7 minutes as they slowly expire... I have thought about this and watched the fires as I light them The reason I have deduced is that the flame has to reach a certain heat output to suck in enough air to supply the oxygen which i believe to be what makes a flame burn orange.....Once the fire is hot enough the thermal flow of air is guaranteed...but the opposite happens as the fire runs out of fuel, as the volume of thermal airflow decreases the flame again becomes clear...This where the danger comes with these fires..... All our staff are trained to never re fill a fire if they cannot put their hand into the burner... if it is lit they feel the heat in time to stop and remove the hand... if they were to not do this test they could be lighting a molotov cocktail as the try to re fuel.
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the Doctor wrote:we have 4 ethanol fires...1 in our Speakeasy and 3 heating our house... we measure and ensure sufficient air exchange in every room and have monoxide & gas alarms... in short we are very careful....We live in a bloody freezing spot in the highlands.... As much as we love our ethanol fireplaces, I am loathed to ever recommend them to others for the simple reason that they burn clear for the first minute and sometimes for up to 7 minutes as they slowly expire... I have thought about this and watched the fires as I light them The reason I have deduced is that the flame has to reach a certain heat output to suck in enough air to supply the oxygen which i believe to be what makes a flame burn orange.....Once the fire is hot enough the thermal flow of air is guaranteed...but the opposite happens as the fire runs out of fuel, as the volume of thermal airflow decreases the flame again becomes clear...This where the danger comes with these fires..... All our staff are trained to never re fill a fire if they cannot put their hand into the burner... if it is lit they feel the heat in time to stop and remove the hand... if they were to not do this test they could be lighting a molotov cocktail as the try to re fuel.
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the Doctor wrote:you can buy fuel ethanol from Eco-Smart fires in Alexandria Sydney mate. Sorry I have no idea of the cost as I have never had to buy it. We burn over 50% of our spirit, nothing is re processed.
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