The last thing you want to do is crack the glass (27 June 2025)

After dreadful weather for a lot of the country, Marcus talks chimney maintenance and fireplaces!

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks, that'd.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be greetings, welcome people, tonight draw me into the great
leap into the unknown. Who knows what's going to happen
on a Friday or Friday by nature is a is
a weird and unusual beast. So I don't know what's
going to happen the next four hours. But feel free
to set the agenda people, if you want to be
in touch on the show, it's yours. Is the Friday
free for all. The number is eight hundred eighty tonighty Friday,

(00:34):
No rules, no rules, zero rules. Whatever you got we
will talk about. First off, it's just probably is the
good thing to do is just have a mention of
the weather. If you are someone that's currently been affected
by weather or have an interesting story to tell about
what's happening with the weather in US. No you might
be in the top half of the South Land or
the middle to top of the North Island. Let us

(00:54):
know what's happening for you. Some of the footage I've
seen some of those rivers look pretty dramatic. Peny of
roads closed as well, so I've got some intel on that.
Come through eight hundred eighty ten eighty, So I don't
want to just run that show and then go through
the show and realize that we've missed a lot of
the weather information. So yes, if you're experiencing weather or

(01:18):
flooding or inconvenience, let us know what's happening for you.
That's the first camera there, particularly Nelson, what happens. It
seems as though that seems to be ground zero for
so much flooding these days. Light those strong, wisty weather
systems have moved north anyway, So that's what we are

(01:40):
starting with a discussion about tonight. If you're experiencing weather,
let us know what that is. The number is eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two
to text day. You might want to bring up some
of the other topics we've had throughout the course of
the week. Also too, a great deal of talk about
boy races. We yet to find out what the governments

(02:00):
we are going to do to crack down on those,
so that might be something you want to mention after
that discussion from Tuesday. Anyway, eight one hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine nine to text hital twelve o'clock.
If there is something different you want to mention, feel
free to tweet it, text it, or call in text.
I mean not tweet. Nine two nine two is the
text number. I'll keep you up data with the Manly
versus the Tigers ten and it's gone no school there Ooh,

(02:30):
he's a good text to begin with. Is the newsreader
Diana Beverage led to Tim Beverage whose surname is visit
with a V, so no no relation to Tim Beverage. Brilliant.
It's a good question though, I mean we would have
known brilliant. That's a great question. Oh, so first and

(02:50):
bestress anything you want to talk about tonight. Let's Oh,
by the way, there's been a death in the Dukes
of Hazard Goodness, and I watched the Dukes of hasn't
even I didn't know who it was. I think it
is Boss Hogg's cousin. I will tell you more for

(03:12):
those that don't know the Dukes have Hazard Well Goodness.
It seemed kind of mindless hit compelling rick Hurst, who
played Deputy Cletis Hog so not Boss Hog. I think
Boss Hogg's cousin was Cletis Hog Well unlikely kind of

(03:35):
hit the old dukes of hazard simpler times. Perhaps made
the movie YadA Yadia, But there we go. That's the situation.
There were a large that we've talked about us about
the cars on the show that generally there's about ten
of them. I don't know why so many of their

(03:55):
casually covered auctions and things. Oh by the way too,
you might be driving tonight for the school holidays. You
might be heading on a ROADI because they've started today.
Feel free to tell us the d tales of your journey.
Terrible time for school holiday weather down south being up
trocious today. It's just cold, and it's funny how there's

(04:17):
so many different variations and cold. This is one of
those cold that cuts through you. It took me a
lot of the day to get the fires going in
an effective way. You don't quite know why that was
had to clear out the grate. Should have done that
first thing. It wasn't drawing properly anyway. That's what we
are on about tonight. So eight hundred eighty and nine

(04:39):
nine two detect a bit of everything tonight. Be nice
here from you. So you want to start the whole
bar rolling, be a bit of a curate's egg tonight.
We could have all sorts of topics, but nothing springs
to mind to be the number one topic tonight. Monitoring
does continue in Marlborough tonight. Marlborough Emergency Management will continue
operations overnight. The armies involved m Z Defense Force in

(05:05):
Council will continue to close the mind of flood prevention.
Infrastructure in the region really changes after the significant weather
the last twenty four hours. Residents of the lower parts
of Renwick Township and surrounding land and Jason to Gibson's
Creek and up the wyhaupai Wideo conference is still advised

(05:26):
to be ready to go or you need to go back.
Rifles has two eight one millimeters of rain Godness so
wide spread running, widespread, wide spread flooding continues for continues
throughout the region. Any local roads that are closed will

(05:49):
remain closed overnight. The next roading update will be eight
am thirteen past eight. Steve, you're first on the show
for tonight's so congratulations for you. You're going to set the agenda.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
I think often first at anything each but.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh good, now's your chance to shine.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
How does it you have to listen to this?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
How's that phone line of yours? Can you get it
any better?

Speaker 5 (06:17):
I'm driving at the time. I'm just it's good.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Now, it's good.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Now that that's good, mate, that's good. Look, firstly, bit
before I before I ask your question, I just have
to say it. I'd often listen at this time of night,
so just through various reasons that had to come through.
And twice this week you've upset me.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Mate.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
So the first time is you mentioned earlier in the
week that you prefer public holidays to be on a
Friday instead of a Monday. Yes, yes, and I think
that's I think that's absolutely horrendous. But so that upset me.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
First of all, there was quite a strong there was
quite a strong clositive response to that, Steve, that that just.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Makes me upset that I'm that I'm living amongst people
that think that way. I'd probably rather not.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
What's your what you're thinking?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think you had a call early on that I
did get to listen to that I think summed it
up quite well. Is that you know, Friday doesn't really
feel like it worked even though you're doing work, you're
sort of already sort of wrapping it up for the weekend,
whereas where Monday seems to creep into Sunday, and well
Sunday you're sort of realizing what worked the next day,
so you know, I sort of prefer to have the

(07:29):
Monday off.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sure, it's just opinion. You shouldn't get upset about it,
but fair enough.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, yeah, no, fair enough. And the second thing was
just now, mate, I can't believe you don't know who
Cletus is off off.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I know who, I know who, Yeah, I know who
they are. He's just not one of the major characters.
He's Boss Hobb's cousin.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Right, Yes, I thought you. I thought you were suggesting
he was his cousin. But you weren't you You couldn't
recall the character.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh he's a girl that sort of sideways head.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh you've got it, you've got it. Well I don't
make you've bought it back for me.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Thank you very much, My pleasure to stay. Jay fifteen
past day mainly have scored full four nil over West
City Targets, looking forty input eight hundred eighty ten eighty
nine two nine two to text. Cletus not a name
that's caught on. Cletus has it. He wasn't the insurgence
of people called Cletus oh Nelson flooding. According to AI,

(08:28):
Nelson has a history of significant flooding events, with notable
instances in eighteen forty four, eighteen seventy nine, nineteen oh four,
nineteen o eight, nineteen ten, nineteen sixteen, nineteen eighteen, the sixties,
and a major flood in nineteen seventy. So that's floody,
but it's particularly fed a lot in the last five

(08:48):
or six years if I'm remembering right. Goodness, oh eight
hundred eighty Teddy and nine two nine two anything goes
hit'd twelve. Looking forward to what you want to say tonight.
I'll keep you updated with news around the world too,
although I suspect it's going to be quiet. There's that
stupid wedding in Venice, but they're already married. So that's

(09:12):
just crazy, isn't it. Why would you already get married
in poor Orlando? Blow me. He's kind of got his
hands over everyone. That's not good for his anyway. They're
trying to read far too much news tonight. Get in
touch on David beckhams in hospital, arm in a sling.
Why would you be in hospital with your arm in
a sling? Anyway? Do get in touch you want to

(09:33):
be a part of If you've got a weather update
for me from the south or the top of the
South or the middle of the North, get in touch
eight hundred and eighty ch out here nineteen nine to
text what's nice? As we've managed to stop talking about Schnitzel, Marcus,
just to prove we listened to you, I had to
look up the idiom curates egg something that's both good

(09:56):
and bad. Yeah, Marcus, it's John. Shame on, Steve. I
agree that Friday public holidays are they go. You don't
quite know the full definition of a curate's egg. I
don't even know what a curate is. Is it something biblical?

(10:16):
So a curate's egg is a strange kind of a saying.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
The phrase originates from a Punch magazine cartoon when a
curate is having breakfast with a bishop and politely tries
to avoid admitting a bad egg is rotten by saying
parts of it are excellent. So it comes from a joke.
So a curate's egg is both good and bad. And
tonight's show will be like that, no doubt. It always

(10:47):
is on a Friday to Friday free for all. And
has to know what a curate is well a member
of the clergy, an assistant to a vicar, a rector, or,
a parish priest. The ego not on the chessboard, but
the curate. So yes, literally a curate's egg tonight, Come on,

(11:11):
forebore me. What have you got anything? Goes Hittle twelve.
Someone said, this's two hundred and fifty General Leees. Mark's
funny how you mentioned about getting your fire going. It's
a mystery to me as to why fire burns away
nicely one night, but the very next night it burns slowly.
It's terrible. And there was great draft today too. It

(11:31):
just wouldn't burn. There was like the fire devil inside
the box making mischief. But once it got going, it
pumped at the house up about twenty four degrees in
no time. Someone's asking me, who's going to be the
next doctor, the next James Bond. Someone said, oh, yeah,

(12:00):
I don't know. Someone wants to know what makes a
swear word a swear word. Well, that's a good, that's
a good, that's good question good to one way trip
is a swear word can become accepted, but not the
other way, an accepted word suddenly can't become a swear word.

(12:23):
It's a good question from Roger Anyway, nineteen past eight.
I'm enjoying myself. I hope you are too. Weather updates
if you've got them, and your input if you've got it.
Also tonight that try was disallowed. It's back to zero zero.
This is Manly versus the Tigers. Neither of the team
I would think would be top eight. You not exactly
sell it, dwellers where they almost are. Actually it's always

(12:49):
a bit of a Tiger's fourteenth, Seagles tenth. All that
disruption with chair Evan's gonna go another team that hasn't helped. Oh,
by the way, the year's halfway gone. School holidays start today.
This is the well start Monday. But they're off school today.

(13:10):
They're happy about that, So we're going into two weeks
of school holidays. I can't wait. Here's a good question.
What's the best place to live if you don't want
to get flooded. What's the least flooded part of New Zealand.
Someone says, yeah, mate, we meet you need to move

(13:32):
to Palmerston. We haven't had a good flood since two
thousand and four. You're fairly interesting question. Where's the place
that he's in that never floods? Don't know the answer
to that. Twenty one past eight, Evan, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
How are you, Marcus?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Evan, I'm good. Thank you for asking. How's yourself?

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Oh, not too bad?

Speaker 7 (13:57):
But breezy today.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
How breezy? Very breezy.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
You're fairly breezy. Okay, lots of rain, yeap you get
I was just thinking chimney might need sweeping.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Oh no, my chimney. I sweep my chimney quite regularly.
Oh yeah, it's quite a hard thing. Have you ever
tried sweeping a chimney?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
No, but I think it's in the insurance policy. It's
going to be done every year.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
And I think we thought that was actually a myth. Okay,
I don't know anyone that's been charged with a house fire,
but it's quite interesting sweeping a chimney because you've got
to get up, you gotta you get your step leader
and you get up on the roof right and then

(14:48):
and then you remove the top chimney bit like is
it called the cowling or the bit the kind of
the pipe that goes on top of the other pipe.
So you've just got the pipe. You move the top
bit right, and then you screw your lengths together and
then you go up and down, up and down to
try and move it. But the point I'm saying, it's

(15:10):
quite easy to injure yourself because you're be pressing down
and suddenly it will give. And suddenly when it gives,
your arms go slamming down onto the raw steel of
the top of the pipe. So if you're not careful,
you do yourself quite a bit of damage.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
I thought they did it the other way around, from
the bottom up.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
No would they? How would they get in there?

Speaker 7 (15:30):
Yeah, because you've unscrewed through the extensions on as you
push it up.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah. The other thing what people can do is they
just get a chain, a big metal chain and just
drop that down and just bang that around. That works
quite well, I think.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
Anyway, it's just a bit of a safety issue, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm happy to talk about chimney sweeping. That's a great topic.
Twenty three past day. John, it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 9 (15:56):
Hello.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Hi John, Oh, Hi, gooda Marcus. Yeah, I'm just speaking
a bit the We were just doing this chimney sweet
from the weekend just gone and we were up there,
and it's a bit more than just a step letter
what you were saying. It's a long way up there
where we are.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
We up a brick chimney or a middle pipe.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
That's a brick one.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Okay, yeah, well okay.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
So he got up there and he got up to you,
and he's like six foot four and he had to
reach up just to touch now what what they called it.
They called it a hat, Yes, yeah, that's what. And
there was a there was three screws on each side.
So he was trying to pull it off, and I said, now,
there's public screws on me. And sure enough, he screwed

(16:47):
them off. And he went to put the extensions down there,
and oh jeez, I went inside and I opened up
the you know down there with the bloody fireplaces. Oh
the black that come out of there. I should have
kept it closed, but I instantly closed it, and I said,

(17:08):
keep going, keep going. But in our clause in our
insurance company, they say, if you want to have your insurance,
you have to have it done by a professional, and
and that's in the in the clause and the insurance.
But we did it, but it's still smoked out and

(17:29):
we've done it multiple times. So what's going on here?
I don't know did.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
You buy did you buy yourself the brushes and the alcothe.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
We we buried it. But jeez, I'll tell you what
it was like. Abu five meters long with a little
bit of string at the end of it. I don't
know what the strings to be?

Speaker 2 (17:50):
It the strings for?

Speaker 5 (17:53):
Before you go and cut me off, can I tell
you a joke to everybody out there?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Is it clean?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
It's really clean, It's really good joke.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's not racist or sexist.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
It's absolutely perfect. You'll love it.

Speaker 10 (18:09):
Joke.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's always nervousness. It's always one of my vals. Has
never let joke songs. I'm always nervous. I'm not going
to get them anyway. Off you go. You've asked kindly,
how do I take John?

Speaker 11 (18:19):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (18:19):
It takes a bit for twenty seconds? Okay, okay? Have
you ever heard of silent tennis?

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Silent tennis?

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Have you ever heard of silent tennis?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
No?

Speaker 5 (18:31):
Well, it's like regular tennis without the record.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Very good, Very good, John, very good. You're certainly right,
it wasn't. I don't think anyone could take offense at
that could they will be a dad joke, silent tennis,
regular tennis without the reckort. Text me if you don't
get it here till midnight. Mane of us. Marcus welcome,

(18:56):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty dB Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (19:01):
A couple of quick stories about the same chidney. I
just moved into Tira. Oh, by the way, good evening.
I'm sorry for being.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Did you get free coal? And oh, Tira.

Speaker 11 (19:17):
Know well sort of. I used to wander around to
the coal trains and clean the deck of the end
of the wagons every now and then, but it was
rubbish coal. But anyway, I've just moved there and we
had with the fire for the first time probably in

(19:38):
a couple of years, and I was subject to my
first chimney fire.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Oh yes, I'd like to experience one of those, just
to see what the noise is like.

Speaker 11 (19:48):
It is horrendered and there's molten pieces of tar falling
out of the chimney and it's it's quite invigorating. And
I had to fall back on a bit of knowledge
I didn't know I had, so in with the wet
newspaper and we finally got under control. Now, absolute, how.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Did you how did you get under control.

Speaker 11 (20:13):
You shoved wet newspaper up the bottom of the chimney.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
So a chimney fire was all the all the career side,
all the stuff that's lining the chimney when that catches fire.

Speaker 11 (20:23):
Right, yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
And is it safe for your house because it's not
going to start the fire is not going to break
through that metal pipe into the I mean it's safe,
it's just frightening, is that right.

Speaker 11 (20:34):
I had a a brick chimney and I wouldn't have
bet on some of the water. So yeah, it's relatively
safe because the chimney itself becomes lower in pressure than
the outside air, understand, So it's not firing flames out

(20:56):
of the chimney. But I wouldn't want to bet on that.
So what you do is you get wads of wet
newspaper and you you block the bottom and it will
suffocate itself out. But a better trick is to let
it get really, really really hot and then throw a
couple of handfuls of salt up it and that will
glaze the inside of your chimney with a salt glaze.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
So you chucked the salt into the bottom of the fire.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Or from the top of its roaring well.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's exciting, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (21:26):
And it'll it'll glaze the chimney. Now, I learned this
from Michael Bill over the pub at the time of
this this chimney fire. They're sitting on the front stoop
of the pub. They can see that I have a
chimney fire. It's relatively obvious for the long hair wave.
And the conversation apparently went BB's got a chimney fire. Yeap,

(21:52):
should we go and help him? That's here he goes,
because he should have.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
He should have arrived with a salt peg, shouldn't he?

Speaker 11 (22:02):
He should have. He was explaining some of the final
points to it. Here was the village fire chief as well,
so he had a very good idea that I hopefully
sort it out. I've never got any wish they.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Would because I always told too that if you wanted
to get rid of a chimney far what you had
to do was just burn a pellette and a burn
a palette and you know all that dry wood that
should be enough to really flush out the chimney in
the in the crew. So that didn't there a lot
of you know, a pellette's worth the dry wood should
do it.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
But yeah, really get it going. And but like I said,
if you throw a handful of a couple of handfuls
of salt up there as well, you'll blaze the chimney,
which actually helps.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Nice call, deb thanks so much that nineteen to nine
Modoch Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
Yeah, mag I.

Speaker 12 (22:49):
Don't give you a bit of a weather update round.
I was just out in Cleveden, like sort of south
of walk.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yes, southeast would call that one.

Speaker 12 (22:59):
You're yeah, yeah, well he out and flood control and yeah,
there's quite a bit of a water of the roads
over there, quite a few closed roads sort of like
the waters up to the probably over those little white
markers some places. Yeah, which is weird because we haven't
had that much rain. But I think at the high
time must be here at the moment.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Do you do flood patrol? Is that a joke?

Speaker 12 (23:19):
No, no, No, we're quite up and it's just a look,
we're just a bit more often than what we do now.
But it used to be locked out. There was a
bit of an activity to get up when it rain.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
But yeah, so it's still raining heavily now, Moonop, No.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
It's not.

Speaker 12 (23:32):
I think it has to be high tide. There's a
couple of sitch guards out there closing the roads and
so forth, but I think they've got a bit more
on top of it.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
These days, so the roads are predominantly open in Cleveland.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (23:42):
What the main one going on is clothes that you
can get around it pretty easily.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Nice update, Mudoc. Thank you, Peter Marcus.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
Welcome, Oh Marcus.

Speaker 13 (23:51):
Here's I've got an old homestead up in the king Country,
and I've got a couple of chimneys here, and I
can't find decent chimney sweeping brushes. I wonder if anyone
knows where you can get them from.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Might have ten?

Speaker 13 (24:06):
Ones are not very good be there.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, I just bought mine from the local hardware store.
E h hayes. It's still got an al caathine attachment.
They're not bamboo or anything. Are you happy with that?

Speaker 13 (24:24):
Yeah? Well, I've got this. These the sort of hard
brush plastic things with the wine, you know, to get
together to get down the hole.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
But I mean, I thought my one was quite high caliber.
It's like metal. It's like metal brushes on a on
a metal base. It seems it's a fitty good bit
of kit.

Speaker 13 (24:45):
Yeah, a k marcause yeah, i'd better ask around. I've
only been going to MIT ten. I'll sort of get
into a bit more.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, I don't know what. I'm just trying to look
like the what the what are they called chimney chimneys?
What's the tool called?

Speaker 13 (25:02):
I should ring up, duneed and brush company. I wonder
if I still around?

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, yeah, oh it doesn't look good. They might have
teen one that looks nasty.

Speaker 13 (25:13):
Yeah, because I've got a brick you briction me for
the cold range, and then I've got the tent fireplace
for it doesn't seem to be doing it. Maybe I
need it. Maybe I need a new fire.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
That looks nasty the might of ten months like it's
like redd and it's like red and black plastic. No,
that doesn't look good at all. No, No, it's terrible. Okay,
I can see. I can see they are for sale
on TIMU. But I went to the eh is the
hardware store, and it's it's a good it's a good,
substantial rush on it, you know. It's that's the ham

(25:46):
that's the hammer hardware and in the cargo.

Speaker 13 (25:48):
But nice, no, nice one, you know. That's yeah, Okay,
I'll bet Aboddy, try a bit harder. I guess those
ones that might have teen here, they're not efficient.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
No look, maybe throwing good money after bed with those
funny enough for quick Google that you can buy them
on tim I'm sure the insurance companies wouldn't recognize that.
What about did you see the person on TIMU that
brought their kid a Ronaldo top And not only were

(26:21):
the letters coming off, but the two arms were completely
different lengths. It was surprising. Anna Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (26:31):
Oh hello marc Use. I've got a couple of fireplace stories.
The first one is if you've got a wood burner
and it stop.

Speaker 11 (26:41):
Going very well and it.

Speaker 14 (26:43):
Has heavy use, sometimes you do need to sweep the
chimney twice a year because of it gets very gummed up.
And the other reason if it's not going carey well.
The baffles. Those are the sort of the thick brick
tile things which are at the top of the firebox.
If they're broken or not working very well. That to

(27:06):
fixt your fireplace. So Jim Assurance come, you have to
sweep once a year, but sometimes she's got to sweep
it twice if it's going sort of twenty four hours
a day.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
I think normally enough, the chimney needs sweeping because you
will get smoke coming out when you try and light it,
because it's not drawing. That's always been my experience. But
you're probably right about the bethels and stuff to whether,
So thank you for that, Bob. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (27:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (27:34):
We had a place in Dobson, which was just out
of Graymouth and done. I weren't just up the road
at the time, and anyway, we heard the fir engine
go out and the guy came streaming and he said, oh, Bob,
they're at your place. The hose of the running from
the front rawer. I thought, oh my god. So I
jumped in the car and shot down home. And what
had happened is the wife had somehow managed to set
the chimney on fire, and I thought, crikey, what sort

(27:56):
of message inside. But I'll tell you what. The fiber
gate arrived that put a white bag thing on the bottom,
climbed up on the roof clean the chimney out, and
then had a joke with me, is it would only
be Bob that would get us chimney cleaned out free?
And on inspection I calmbed up into the ceiling. They
had a metal flu that went down through it, but
on the sides of it they had the timber keeping

(28:18):
it plum so they timber had all burn marks around it.
So it's I don't know how the whole house didn't
burn down, have no idea.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
So when with the white bag did the burning material
went down into that?

Speaker 10 (28:33):
Did it?

Speaker 13 (28:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (28:34):
Well, I don't know how they've done it, But missus
Butcher happened to me. I'm my high school principal, and
shoes in the fire again and they come down and
there wasn't a bit of salt anywhere, not even them
in the fire. So because they did have water in
that there, so I'm not quite sure how they condensed
at all, but it was no mess at all.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Were you burning coal, and Dobson?

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Were you?

Speaker 10 (28:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (28:55):
Bloody slag coal too? You know that jolly stuff? Did
they send over Japan? Because I used to go and
plug it off the railway tracks in those days and
didn't have any money, so I.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
Got what I could.

Speaker 15 (29:04):
But it was furnace coal. You're gonna made it? What
it was in the firebox?

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Where is it from?

Speaker 15 (29:09):
Oh? Well, I used to have had the train to
go past that place all the time, when of course
it would all pull off.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
But the West Coast coal got clare Cole, the Weist
Coast coal was quite good coal, wasn't it.

Speaker 15 (29:19):
Yeah, yeah it is if you can get the right stuff.
But this is coal that they sent over to pan
As for the furnace, and they used to come through
and of course was quite light and it would blow off. Yeah,
if you got the good if you've got the good coal,
like once I got over there and got to know
a few people like the Rugby League and that you'd
end up with a trailer load dumped up on your driveway.
So that was all good stuff. But the slag con

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was not good at all.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Good story, Bob Chair's good. Good stories for fires and
chimney fires will keep going. Nine to nine. New Zealand
Brush has a good sweep kit. Expensive though that's for Pete.
I think Pete was one one. New Zealand Brush has
a good sweep kit. Here's about the changing world, Marcus.
The professionals that cleaned my chimney every twelve months do
it from the firebox. They'd never climb on the roof.

(30:03):
There's a flexible fiberglass ride with a brush on the
end attached with a battery drill. Too dangerous going up
on the roof. We'll think about the roof. It's a
bit of a two man job, too, is if you
need someone to hold the ladder, the ladder, the ladder.
I don't love it. I don't love doing it in
the winter. It's pretty much a summer job. I reckon,

(30:25):
get up there. You always gotta be careful. You electric
get yourself too, with all those giant rods. Particularly, it's
weat with the alkathine. Quite satisfying though. What I do,
and I don't know if this is a good thing
to do. What I do is I put my cell
phone in the fire with a torch on so you
can see the light to know you've broken through. That's

(30:48):
quite helpful, free handy the cell phone torch. People probably
laughing at me about that, aren't they. I can just
feel that doing Marcus. If you're gonna heat up a
middle chimney pipe all the year inside of bricktion me,
they will draw and fleer up easily. I use a
get guess torch on the hundred mil flu in my

(31:10):
house bus. Otherwise the smoke comes inside rather traveling up
two meters of cold pipe, which is pretty much like
saying heat rise and takes a smoke with it, or thereabouts. Yes,
my neighbor was always saying, you've got to come if
you've been away for a while, you've got to burn
a newspaper to put it up, just to get the
air flowing up through it.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Something.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
You almost got to treat a fire like a living thing,
I think in some ways, or the old fire system anyway,
get in touch. It's all about chimney fires. Funny old
wed chimney, isn't it. Where does that come from? Sea woods?
With the EM and M together like that chimney? Would
it be for another language? I wonder? Chimney. It's from

(31:57):
the Greek kabanos meaning furnace through the old French chimney,
so it's kind of not that doesn't sound that much
like camenos anyway, Marcus. I remember, like yesterday when I
opened fire, caught fire. We had had an earthquake the
week before and the bricks all cracked. The Friar Brigade

(32:18):
condemned it then and there I got insurance for a
free standing fire. The noise of that chimney fire will
be forever with me. It's a very strong rule. Apparently
I've never experienced one. Oh, but fancy doing it from
the bottom up. Now, that's what they do, the chimney

(32:40):
sweeps with a drill. Drill bit Taylor nine. I wait,
my name is Marcus Could everywhere talking about chimney fires
and fires and fires, well, fires and chimneys basically, and
interesting things that happened to he fires and chimney sweeping.
Anyone else done it from below with a drill with
a thing going up. I've never heard of that. Also

(33:04):
talking about the weather, because that's happening around the car
to floods in Nelson. Blend him that kind of area.
I even kind of always get confused with our province.
It's it gets confusing around there, Marlbor and Tesmond. I
guess we'll call that Rocky. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hey you going there, Marcus there?

Speaker 10 (33:23):
You good?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Think you're rocky.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah, just talking about this kind of whether it wapply
stuff there back in the old days there as I'm
just saying here right now, we used to get every
day here in Alexandra minus eighteen degrees and right now
at six degrees, and we've got a bit of a drizzle. Government. Yeah, exactly.
It's unbelievable, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
See, you're you're not getting those really cold winter days.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
We'll put it this way. I've been here just about
most of my life, except for apart to the old
we put some pieces with now man with the t y.
It was only six years of my life the way
back in the early days. But to tell you what,
this day and age, we haven't got a winter. It's
what I'll tell you.

Speaker 9 (34:08):
I tell you what.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
It's just like Bluff because I lived there for five years.
Remember you and I were talking about that crip there.
It's just like it's exactly like Bluff here at the moment.
We just don't get the frosts. We've we've we've had
a handful of frosts and that's it.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Oh that's a shame, because that's kind of the excitement
about sins, those cold one todays.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Oh my god, we scalped the men of burn there.
I've got my own skates, skates hanging up there and
the body and the guarantee you right now, and I
haven't used them for years and years and years.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
So is anywhere is anywhere frozen over for the.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Curlers, nothing at all.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Well, just what about Ida burn.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Nothing at all. We won't get seated from I'll tell
you what. Probably the last ten years, every second or
third years we might skip we smettering eyes. But that's
about it.

Speaker 10 (35:01):
Now.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
It's pretty sad, really, like I mean because.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
About nine years ago, nine years ago, I did freeze
over because I walked, I walked the rail trout in
the middle of one trained up oh Tara her and
the and the the curlers arrived there because they had
frozen over. And that was that was a re cold
winter that must have been. That must have been twenty
fifteen or twenty sixteen. I think twenty fifteen. Probably it

(35:26):
was very cool.

Speaker 15 (35:26):
Probably maybe the last time.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Well I would have met Exy, I know, because we
always go, oh, you know, everybody goes it's going to
be a bit of a hard one. We've had a good,
good summer and we did a hard winter. You know
how they how they say that yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Winter hard, good summer, hard winter.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yep, yep, did right there and it was good, Like
I mean, you really enjoyed it. You're like a minus ten.
You go for a once down the street there, or
go over and wander up where we're going to go.
And it was it was so cold, it was so still,
it was warm.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
If you know what I mean, what sort of are
you using? Rocky?

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Yeah, I've got an old, bloody, old bloody keep there
all right. You got plenty of wood, plenty of wood?

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Where do you get it?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Plenty of wood? I for years and years used to
cut my own bloody wood. But now I just buy
it because I'm sixty one now, so I just buy her.
For years and years, I just got my own wood.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Did you have a log splitter?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
No, it's all hand trolley there, my markets, he's all
hand trolley. Old body is putting eggs wow, tons and
tons of it on my wife, tons and tons of it.
We all cut it my hand.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Where was the wood from?

Speaker 4 (36:53):
It was from up why here, Herry Valley?

Speaker 6 (36:55):
Oh yeah, with my my.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Father in oil bloody Ellen Anderson, and maybe we're there.
He went up there every year and we went up
the in we both filled up each other's louder fullow wood.
We do that for years and years and years, and
it was a good, good life. And we deserve to
have that work because my god, it used to be

(37:18):
called back in them days.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
But now but now you're missing the cold, so you
can't win again.

Speaker 7 (37:23):
You anyway, unbelievable that.

Speaker 9 (37:28):
Right.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
I'm pleased you're actually ordering in your file, would not
having to do it yourself. That must be very freeing.
Oh look at that.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Dead right, dead right? But I guess what the stack
stuff is?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
The old dob there sticking so you're reckon. None of
the lakes here, None of the lakes will freeze this year.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Not a scirit of ice. No, she's unreal, she's bloody,
this old bloody town here in Alexander, right, even copy
up to Nazy and Saint Batham's and all ran. Really
we don't get ice anymore?

Speaker 6 (38:04):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Okay, is it snow? Does it snow?

Speaker 10 (38:08):
Rocky?

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Well, by christ, I'll tell you what. Last season it
snowed about No, probably bloody, about three or four inches,
and that was about it last season. But now we
never get snow, never get snow there, Okay.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
I enjoyed that. Rocky thinks that Dared used to tie
a rope at both ends of a pine branch, dropping
one end of the rope to the base while he
had the top end. Then you pull the branch up
and down several times. Marcus us an aluminium can now
and then helps keep the chimney clean. Why did the
Mexican push his wife off the cliff? He wanted tequila.

(38:54):
My jokes are coming to that. Normally all about the
fires and chimneys. Tonight, people, anything, fire, firewood, winter. It
seems to be a winter warmer. Special tonight, Kathycus, good
evening and welcome.

Speaker 16 (39:08):
I'm hi Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Thank you, Kithy.

Speaker 16 (39:13):
That's good. I'm just looking back at nostalgia, probably in
the seventies and eighties when I was a little girl.
I'm fifty five and I member as a little girl
between you know, probably five and twelve, and you know,
around the block there was always a chimney fire and

(39:33):
it was exciting. But you know that these days, I.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Hang on, I don't think where's this, Kithy. Are you
like in Grenite or somewhere.

Speaker 17 (39:43):
No.

Speaker 16 (39:43):
I loved a number of caddle okay, wow, yeah, But
there was always a chimney fire every four weeks somewhere
around the block, and all us kids will be on
our bikes and our top of Raley twenties and we'll
be all going to watch. But you don't get that
these days because there's no one here's fires. That's all

(40:07):
heat pumps.

Speaker 15 (40:08):
What would it look like?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
What would a chimney fire look like?

Speaker 16 (40:12):
Well, we're just really really black smoke coming out of
the fire.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
And flames out the top of the chimney. Yes, yeah, okay, okay,
there we go. Thanks Kathy, twenty one past nine. Really oh,
I tat at eighteen seventy sixteen to four many of
a West Tiger's hit till twelve. It's all about fires
and chimney fires and cleaning your chimney with a length

(40:37):
of chain. I'm big on this and Schnitzel jokes. For
some reason, someone said a text Marcus had to laugh.
Our greens will be swung tranquilizers listening to wonderful show nol. Well,

(40:57):
there's nothing unenvironmental about having a wood fire. It's actually
an environmentally fairly sustainable way to boot and stuff, provided
you're burning in a certain heat and that hasn't got
a lot of smoke anyway, Get in touch you want

(41:17):
to be a part of it. I don't really fully
subscribe to that a het til twelve. If you want
to come through eight hundred and eighty to eighty Laurie Marcus.

Speaker 18 (41:26):
Welcome, hiaus. Yeah, it's very timely. I had a guy
is supposed to come and.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Clean my chimney today.

Speaker 18 (41:37):
And he I've seen a missage through saying because I
was supposed to rain about midday, would be okay if
he cleaned it from inside if it was swirt so
he didn't have to get up on the roof, he said.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
He said that.

Speaker 18 (41:54):
Yeah, well, they seen a text through because I'd ordered
it during the week and they said they were going
to come around today and then my last night that
I think that they'd been looking at the forecasts, and uh,
they gave me the option of said, well, if the
guy comes from and this training he appeared, to let
him clean it from inside inside.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Job Yeah wow.

Speaker 19 (42:17):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 18 (42:20):
I said, turned out it was a buddy disaster because
he came around and it was hidden quite rained, but
he came in head looking. I needed some fire bricks
free placing, and he had to take take the top.
I've got an insert fire bob in an old an
old fireplaces a mess.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah, I've got I've got a mess. Put it on fire.
I know exectly what I know exectly what you're looking
at Okay.

Speaker 18 (42:48):
So he got in in the took out the fire
bricks and I said, it's going to be a bit
of an issue. He thought they were craicks, so he
thought they're going to break. But then he when he
got it out, there was a bit of stuff on top,
and then he stuck. He said and looked, and he said, well,
I can't do anything. I can't clean this. I can't

(43:10):
officially to do anything. There's a crack in the firebox.
So that has you know, technically it was a risk,
and I mean he couldn't officially condemn it, but he
basically said.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Well, so that's that's the metal firebox off. The mess
pot has cracked. We's it cracked at the back.

Speaker 18 (43:33):
Well, no, this is and on top basically towards the front.
It's yeah, and quite quite a decent sort of crack.
It may have been there. It may have been there for.

Speaker 19 (43:47):
Quite a while.

Speaker 18 (43:48):
I'm thinking for the last guys that come in and
cleaned the chimney and replace the top bricks, they were
strictly in and out outfit, and I don't think they
sort of looked at they had at it. I've had
it in for about fifteen, there's still.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
An existing chimney around it. What's the problem.

Speaker 18 (44:05):
Well, I suppose the if if, if it's cracked, the
fire can eat up the rest of you know, the outside,
which isn't that insulated supposedly, And I mean it's regardles

(44:25):
as unsafe anyway, we'll put it that way. Yeah, Well, that's.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
That's a that's a full it's full grand for you.

Speaker 11 (44:32):
Isn't it.

Speaker 18 (44:33):
It probably will be? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Yeah, so, and I wouldn't get another best support. They're
not pretty good, Laurie.

Speaker 18 (44:39):
Yeah no, I'll just the brochure that particular models they're
going to have to. That's not making it so an
exact sign is incertain mindy for change, But yeah, no,
it might be forced to. I'd say, I'm thinking back
to what may have caused it, and I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Probably was that you will have put a giant but
it wood there an anger and slammed the door on it.
I rick and or done something like that, But.

Speaker 18 (45:08):
I don't quite do that. I got a feeling, I
got some uh, somebody came around drop drop, drop a
whole lot of cut offs from jewelery from and that's
the stuff you're not really supposed to burn. And I've
heard that later on that it was not too hot
to hot. Yeah, yeah, I think that I think that

(45:30):
maybe be a world of stun it and I think
it's probably you know, we've probably been using in that
condition for you know, uh, probably the last six years
or so. But the chimney cleaners we've had and but
haven't picked up on it. You know, there you've gone
straight up on the roof and focusing down and haven't
stuck the head and spotted this crack.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
So yeah, it's oh, it's sort of the good scenario,
but it's not good. The coldest, coldest week of the
year and you've got no fire. You both have to
go to that warehouse of bor of those stupid oil
heat is to keep your warm for the next week.

Speaker 18 (46:00):
Well, we've got we've got a sort of open plan
sort of now that in the in the dining room,
we've actually got a sort of a gas fired sort
of heat pump sort of system that does actually heat
the house anyway, but that was just sort of a backup.
We prefer using the fire. Yeah, so we've got that,

(46:22):
and then I just picked up a radiant heat to
sort of shine on a bit of light because it's
we've actually got to go and get another consent from
the council. Suppose that's a different appliance. Even though I
thought we were placing like with like the guy. The
guy said, oh no, you everybody will council at the

(46:42):
con inspect.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
I'm just thinking, Laurie, where you'd go and look for
a second hand one would you get because where were they?
You're probably looking at marketplace or trade me because I'm
sure a lot of people are ripping out their mess sports.
You might find a good secondhand one that would fit
in there.

Speaker 18 (46:58):
Yeah, not too sure that the yeah, probably, I mean,
given I'll probably prefer to go Becker New was something. Anyway,
the chance of finding something it would fit and the
approval again basically it's the thing. It seems to be
that the council have to come in inspect before you.
Once you've taken the oil one out there, you come

(47:20):
and inspect the cavity again and then they checked it
out what you put back and again he's talking, you
know it all goes well, it could be six weeks.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
I think you turn on the radio. That's exactly what
we're talking about. Cheapest creepers nice to talk.

Speaker 10 (47:35):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Larrie's right in the red basket. It's got me worried
with my jewelry off cuts. I like it, but a
heat and that gorse burns hot. I had two fires
go where I left home to come to work. I
said to the lad, don't open that door because it
was a giant log in there. Say'd all come tumbling out.

(47:56):
Because the younger lad was there, I said, well, you know, anyway,
seems to have survived. It wasn't a long crossover anyway.
Get in touch. My name's Marcus. Welcome hitdlled twelve. Vanessa
said something about so long text Vanessa, I don't think

(48:18):
they're getting self un coverage and bright water and surrounding districts. Marcus,
tell Laurie to keep using it for now. If anything,
it will just use a bit more wood. You'd actually
fizz them up with an arc welder. Yes, ultimately sounds
like a new burner. I'd like to fizz it up.
I reckon, it's going to be safe. Get in touch

(48:38):
if you want to be a part of it. Here
til twelve o'clock tonight, eight hundred and eighty. It's talk
about house fires. Anyone else had that situation with one
of their fires with the box having cracked, kind of surprising.
I reckon, you get a secondhand fire, I reckon, you
go one of those. Yeah you got those those? Yeah,
you've got those shops at the dump, all the odd

(49:01):
recycling stuff goes, there's always old fires, and then I'm
sure the boxes would be fine anyway, I'm never quite sure.
I guess it was a big trend in the day
when they had fires, old fires, and they put heaters
in the wood burners in the old fires. I'm sure
it doesn't ever work that well. I'm sure a lot
of the heat is lost in the brick structure of
the chimney in the surrounds. Yeah, I've got a love.

(49:24):
I've got two fires. One I love because it's freestanding.
It's just a small one. But gee, she's a or
is it?

Speaker 8 (49:31):
But?

Speaker 2 (49:31):
And the other one is a mass sport that did
an old chimney in a brick and rough cast house.
But sometimes you can get it. You can get it,
you can get it raving. But normally it's just like, well,
it looks good, but you've got to be right almost
inside it to get warm. I just think most of
it's just taken up by the bricks. Anyway, if that's

(49:57):
the if that's the worst of your worries, it's a
pretty good world we live in a but do get
in touching onto these things. I'm finally interesting. I hope
you are too. Oh eight one hundred and eighty to
nine nine takes looking forward to your input tonight. It's
all about It's all about Derek. It's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Welcome, Wow, micas good evening.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
How are we your good things?

Speaker 10 (50:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (50:26):
I was just.

Speaker 20 (50:29):
Did buy two milligs sweet to the other at last
week and I had to order I sort of sports
like you. I had to order a new battle.

Speaker 10 (50:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I had of a k new beffel last year for mine.

Speaker 20 (50:43):
Yeah, and a couple of new bricks. Well, because I
was slightly cracked, and I put a new but it's
a fire rope around the opening. Yes, And when I
was doing it, I noticed it was still crack in
the bottom right hand corner, just down by the door,
and it's probably like I know, like a two millimeters

(51:04):
cranks and it was probably a beat up for twentiesimeters
long along the bottom. And I was with the drill
with a firebrush on it and got some JB. Well
high heat. You can get one that you can get
up to you know, you know they used it on
an engine blocks and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
And I, yes, so is that something in a tube?

Speaker 20 (51:31):
Night and heart? It's like to steal and yeah, it's perfect.

Speaker 6 (51:37):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (51:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
So so just run your finger along it and put
it in the crack. Is that right? You're squeeze it
along and it just yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
It's a puddy.

Speaker 20 (51:48):
So it's like a comet and like a puppy that
the puddies finally got a two different layers to it,
and you you mix it up and so yeah, it
turns into like as kind of risen and you use
it like on your muffler in your.

Speaker 11 (52:05):
Car, do you think?

Speaker 2 (52:08):
And and and that's worked well, Derek, that's worked excellent.

Speaker 20 (52:13):
But then Cat, I put a bit on the inside
and fit on the outside, and I really swished it
in there. And yet like I checked it out like
all days after I'd headed in there, and as hard.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
As rough, how did you get the outside? You have
to remove the whole the whole front of it.

Speaker 20 (52:30):
Well, no, I just got like a little round wire
brush drill and you know what I mean, and put
it on the end of my back dy drill and
it just could got to take the paint time and
give it a bit of a scupup so the buddy
can stick to it. And yeah, black, it looks black.
You can't even actually even notice that. Well you can't

(52:50):
notice it, but like if you were just you know,
someone came around, it's just a yeah, but a putty
in it.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
Yes, it like steals.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Are you so Laurie could do that perhaps say wow,
I don't.

Speaker 20 (53:04):
Know, I mean, I don't want to burn it out down,
but you know, potentially yeah, no, that's you know, I
used on mufflers and engine blocks and so yet for height,
you know, maybe I think it's about maybe fifty bucks
for just a little so it's quite expensive.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
But it's yeah, I've actually found, Derek, I found that
replacing that rope quite a satisfying and easy thing to do.
When you do that, you know that that works. Well,
you're cut it off and that's beautiful to get a
new rope and that goes tight, beautiful yep.

Speaker 20 (53:37):
And yeah, yeah, no it was. You know, we've had
the mat book ten years. Yeah, we've had a before
that we had a Joel tool. Wow that that was
an amazing fire compared to the mat sports. But yeah,
we moved out.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
So anyway, Hey, Derek, how do you keep the glass clean?

Speaker 5 (53:56):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
So I just cleaned the right when it burns, because
I got We've got friends we go around to and boy,
their fires always beautifully clean. Looks great with a clean
But you've got to do it every day, don't you.

Speaker 20 (54:09):
Well yeah, I mean you know, he doesn't. You know
it's your parents.

Speaker 21 (54:12):
You know.

Speaker 20 (54:12):
I'm not really into you know, yes, looking at the byru,
it's just about keeping the house walk, you ain't.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I think probably the cleaner it is though, the more
he throws out, Oh but I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (54:26):
Oh, we just get a humming, you know, and the
firmers down on the house shows. You know, we get
it up to about twenty six brilliant.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
That's hot. I like twenty six segs that, Derek. It's
twenty from ten Andrew, good evening.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
God evening, Marcus, it's Andrew the audio enthusias. Yet again,
I have some knowledge for you. I got some knowledge
for you in the fireboxes. Yes, so I just rang
my eldest brother, who is now retired, but he is
a toolmaker and he worked at Messport for many years.

(55:02):
He used to run the toolroom on his own and
for quite a few years there. So obviously Laurie has
got an insert box which makes it a bit harder.
And obviously they're never late late devices animals. But after
my brother, I thought you could. I seem to remember

(55:22):
I started out in engineering too before I changed becoming
a chippy. But you can actually well cast iron. But
so what you use is stainless steel rods for doing it.
Now where that can be hard, my brother was saying,
is because the boxes are not always that thick, and
depending where the crackers on the box. Now I think
if I recall right, Laurie said it was on the

(55:44):
top of the box.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
You did say that, yep, yep.

Speaker 6 (55:47):
So the other thing you can do is also is
braise them, which is, you know, with a bronze rod
and a gas plant. And I said to my brother,
would that be you know, still suffice? We're in a
very hot fire. And he said, oh ye, you wouldn't
mount the braids, you know, so? And I had I
had to.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
How would would they need to be tested to get
certification for that. How would they know that it's been
done done right, That's what I don't know.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
Mm hmmm, Well one you'd have to get. Yeah, that's
that's that's right. I mean I was thinking about her.
I was talking to my brother. That's why the why
the chimney Sweet wouldn't want to do it is because
they've got to give it a certificate like that they've
swept the fire and that it's okay. So it becomes
a liability point of view, you know, from an insurance
if if his house burnt down then there's been a
you know, they'll I'll send the ferens a investigator and

(56:35):
because right, they never want to pay out, so they
will always seen the for reens are investigator.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
I mean things should be fixable. I mean it's it's
a giant cast iron stove. Of course it should be fixable,
shouldn't it.

Speaker 6 (56:48):
Well that's right, yeah, but you've got to remember that
it goes through eating and cooling cycles, you know, all
the time, and it's it's a material. I mean, only
the mass ports were I asked my brother about this too,
because when I I've bought my stuff a fire but
I've never actually used it. In and I've got a
yotel as that guy was just talking about. I think

(57:09):
there's Scandinavian. I've got a if you google it, a
Yotel F two fifty, which is a particularly nice looking fire.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
But how's yotels? I've never heard of that.

Speaker 6 (57:22):
That's why, oh you t l I think the yotel,
I think it's Scandinavian, and that I think mine was.
It was it an F fifty or no, that's that's
afforded via just a two I think it was a
two fifty. It's got a big arch door. It's got
a very big glass door on it. And you were
asking how you keep your doors clean. So what I

(57:45):
read in the manual for the fire and mine is
you use a bit of paper towels, and you use
them all so wipe off a good bit of the
ash off the door, and that it was just a
dry paper towel, like bust it off and then dampen
the paper towel and then take it off. And then
what I do is clean it with another damp paper

(58:05):
towel and then but the window cleaner was what I
found the best way. Another track I don't have many
people know that's very similar for cars. To get your
break dust off your meg wheels, first, just clean it
with just water, just water. If you put soap on
it straight away, it makes the breakdust stick worse. If
you clean them with a car washbrush, an old car

(58:26):
washbrush first, just with water.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
I can't see the break, I can't see you. You
sure it's called a yotel?

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Yes, yep, but I'm not sure. I'm the spelling year.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
No, I got no idea. Is it j J why
it's yeah?

Speaker 6 (58:43):
No, because that's that's I think it's Scandinavian yotel.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah y o t u el? Yeah
yeah yeah yeah. Oh gee they are.

Speaker 6 (58:54):
Nice, yes, very nice. Yep, yep you.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
Got the two fifty Yeah, yes, yep.

Speaker 6 (59:01):
That's the big tool one. Is it the arch door?

Speaker 2 (59:04):
What you?

Speaker 6 (59:07):
Why? We are they worse?

Speaker 10 (59:08):
Now?

Speaker 5 (59:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
It's one of those fatal things from time to time.

Speaker 10 (59:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I'll just trying to flatter you. I'm just trying to
flatter you about you. You're obviously proud and I'm just
trying to I'll tell you what I told you A.

Speaker 6 (59:19):
Feteen hundred dollars for it. I paid sixteen hundred dollars
for it, and then a guy said to me that's
told it to me. I had an argument actually with him.
I gave him a rude, rude message on one with.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
A guy when they're buying a stove anyway, tell us
that worked.

Speaker 6 (59:36):
Okay, yep, it was a voicemail and I left it
and I was at a mates place when we're still
using landline. Anyway, the guy ranged me back on the
landline and he says, oh, you know, can I speak
to the guy that just left the message? So I
had to know sheeplessly talk to this guy. And then

(59:56):
I went in and I bought a fire off him.
And that was when it used to be four seasons
up in Auckland here. I don't know if they were
nationwide or not, and they used to sell a bit
of you know, like umbrellas and deck cheers and that
sort of stuff, tombdicties. And he told me later on
I asked him I I was. He was at a
staff training thing and he says, oh, has anybody got

(01:00:16):
any you know, instances where they've had a really difficult
customer that they've turned into a sale. So he says, yeah,
I've got a story for you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
So why were you different? Why you had a fight.

Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
No, it wasn't really, It wasn't nothing major. It was
it was just me. I was younger.

Speaker 10 (01:00:34):
I was young and crash.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Have you have you ever fight with someone when you're
buying a wood stove?

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Did you go in a but? Did you go in
but know it all? Or what I mean? I am interested?

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
No, I wasn't actually in store.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
I was just memory. I was trying to ring up
to see if I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:00:48):
Opening or something, or I might have criticized him to
open on a Saturday morning. Marcus, it was in two
thousand and five.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Doesn't matter. Leopards changed its spots a lot of texts,
so is his markets. You cannot do this? What's that
reference to? Marcus? When I was fifty or six days
to see an upstairs bedroom in my family home each
night needs to take a whizz out the upstairs window
down to the strawberry patch below. One night, while watering
the shrub and I spotted flames from my house down

(01:01:18):
the road. I ran down, discovered flames coming from the roof,
called the fib brigade and told them they came and
put the fire out. This time. My parents are confused
as how I've noticed the fire, and I've never had
the heart to tell Dad Marcus, I live in the
two story house and venom in my chimney sweep. Mister
Brown cleans my chimney from the inside, drill in extendable brushes,

(01:01:41):
brilliant regards.

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Yes, it's clearly changed. It's my day windows sweeping. Marcus
Council won't issue consent for second hand fireplace. I reckon
they will clean it with newspaper and water a little ash.
I clean the glass on my log fire with Whit
newspaper works well potash mate to clean fire, use a

(01:02:05):
bit of the ash with wit newspaper, then rub dry
with dry use paper. Where do you get the newspaper?
No one gets newspaper anymore. I keep the glass of
my fire clean by using Weit newspaper just after I
get the fire going. When the glass is warm but
not hot, I have the newspaper fairly well sodden but
not dripping. Occasionally I might need to do it twice.

(01:02:27):
There's a really stubborn police. I use a polypad. I
agree it seems warmer when the glass is clean. I
always use damp newspaper dipped in cold wood edge to
clean the fire door. It works a treat. There we go,
So finally we found to discovery use for old newspaper

(01:02:47):
cleaning the fire It's a bit like the Home Heating
Special tonight, Hi, Craig gets Marcus Welcome, Yeah, Marcus good,
Thanks Craig.

Speaker 22 (01:03:02):
Hey, Look, I think it's kind of a boring conversation.
It's also sort of interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:03:08):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (01:03:10):
Yeah, the glass on the front of your fireplace. Yeah, yeah.
Do you know how you get rid of it? Like
all that smoky shit is just burned really clean wood, really.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Hot although that, yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:03:30):
And it cleans it off. It just burns it right off.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Yeah, but then it comes back sometimes when you like, yeah, yeah,
I don't know if that's always like that. I don't
know if that's always my experience.

Speaker 22 (01:03:44):
H No, I agree with you. Like, I mean, you
get really really good wood that's like dark wood that
sort of burns hot, burns deep. But if you want
to sort of really burn that that front glass off,
sometimes there's a bit of pine or something that just
burns really fast and really hot, and it just burns.

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
It all off.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
What I do? What I do now? Is if the
glass us has cleaned, the fire will give out more heat.
That's certainly a thing. Absolutely, Yeah, I've got no doubt
about that. I've got no doubt about that. Nice to
hear from your Craig, John, AT's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:04:18):
You're got that, Marcus saga.

Speaker 6 (01:04:20):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Thanks John.

Speaker 17 (01:04:22):
Here's the truck for the old for the glass. So
every morning I set the fire for the for the day,
and beside the wood basket, I've got a container of
the ceramic glass cook top cleaner and a roll of
paper toels open the door. Clean the glass, sparkling crystal clean.

(01:04:50):
Good for the day, next day. Repeat.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
You got to do it every day, don't you.

Speaker 17 (01:04:56):
Well, if you want your glass clean, you have to
do it. Yeah, it's not essentral.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
But I'd liking you.

Speaker 6 (01:05:03):
John.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
What's what's the product?

Speaker 17 (01:05:06):
Oh, just the just the commercial ceramic glass cleaner, so
you know your ceramic stovetops. Yes, it's the one I've got.
The trade name is Sarah Clean CEO AC. The end,
it's just a small plastic container glass cocktop cleaner for

(01:05:27):
ceramic and induction cot tops. So you just give that
a good wiping on with the paper towel, another fresh
paper towel to clean it off when it just drives
off only a few minutes. And I promise you your
glasses crystal liking it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
And John, let me hazard a guess with your paper towels.
You just burn those.

Speaker 17 (01:05:50):
I just took them straight in the fire.

Speaker 21 (01:05:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
How long does it? How long does the thing of
that cleaner last?

Speaker 14 (01:05:57):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:05:57):
Months? And you know probably months, So I suspect. I
mean you use a you use it. It's pink, and
you just put a spot on about the size of
a shilling. You know what a shilling is?

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
No idea, John thought, I said, the size of a piece.
But I liked it when you see not.

Speaker 17 (01:06:19):
Even that bag. So it lasts a long long time.
But an interesting thing I used to used to do
a lot of open homes, and a lot of the
ladies would prepare their houses beautifully and they'd be spotless
ready for the open home. But they'd always a number

(01:06:39):
of them would forget to do the very smoky, horrible
looking glass on the on the log fire, and occasionally,
I vary diplomatically, you sort of mentioned to them that
it might be a nice idea to clean the glass
before the open home. So there's just a little trick there,
you go.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Regon, if I was running the open, I might have
the fire going well in the oven.

Speaker 17 (01:07:05):
Yeah, funnily enough. Yeah no, if the weather's hot, of course,
but on a cold day, on a winter's day, it
certainly one going years. But you'd still want the glass clean,
wouldn't you?

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Exactly? John Well, tell you should write a book. That's
great information from you. Thank you. Nineteen past ten. Hello
Jason good A, Marcus Well, come yep, gotcha. So I
was just taken it. I just taken it back by
your voice anyway. Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 23 (01:07:30):
I'm dreading my next chimney clean. I've got a metro firebox, yes,
log burner, and the ceiling baffeler is not user friendly,
so if I sweep the chimney, it's all going to
just mound up on the top of that and block it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
Worse, is there not a way to get the baffel out.

Speaker 23 (01:07:50):
It's like a two part but they're super heavy and
they kind of rest on lugs. Yeah, and they've got
little ricks attached to them as well. And actually had
the superglue nuts on top of the firebox to do
it one handed. You know to bowlder beckon Solessa, I
get a huge vacuum cleaner and from outside to suck
uple of the stuff I've loosened off. It's going to

(01:08:12):
just block it more.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Can't you get the vacuum up the side of the baffel?

Speaker 6 (01:08:16):
Not at all?

Speaker 23 (01:08:18):
Have look at Metro see if you can work it
out with the pieces from the diagram.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
It's amazing too, because with my small fire, I mean,
when you're going to take the baffel off, you've got
to it's such a right. You've got to take everything
out exactly the right order, with his side bricks first,
and if you if you do one thing wrong, it's
going to ruin the whole day. And that job what's
it called a what's it called.

Speaker 23 (01:08:37):
A metro metro? And yeah, it's got two heavy ceiling
pieces and they're really awkward lying on your back try
and lift them up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Oh, it's horrible. It's a horrible thing because you often, yeah,
I know exactly what it's like.

Speaker 23 (01:08:52):
I sweep the chimney just bleedingly, and that people might
learn from this. Just don't do it without removing all
the sort if you can. Otherwise you're just mounting up
on top of the box itself.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Yeah, I think to block it to clean the chimney
really well, you've got to have it so you've gotta
have everything out. You gotta have a light down the bottom.
You're gonna be a look down the top of the
chimney so you can see the light. Otherwise you probably
haven't done the job properly. But yeah, there's a lot
of soot on top of those baffels. You're completely right.

Speaker 23 (01:09:16):
Yeah, just the rude.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
See Lena appreciated. Jason, thank you. Twenty one past ten.
It's all about fires tonight, Marcus. Not sure if anyone
has said this. Just use a damp paper towel and
dip it in the ash and the fire cleaned glass
like you probably got four hundred texts like that, so
thank you so true. Clean glass more heat. We clean

(01:09:45):
our glass each time we do the ashes as the
heat keeps it cleaning. Between clean your glass on the
fire with oven cleaner sparant, leave for a few minutes
and clean off perfect every time. Jane Marcus just wondering
if anyone still use use paper to light their fives

(01:10:07):
these days where they've gotten lazy and use those little
fire starters cheers, Carl. Goodness, Marcus, just a small question.

Speaker 8 (01:10:22):
For you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Could you please play the song lie to the Truth
by the Young Veins. I think it's a very beautiful song.
Deserve it's more appreciation. If you can't, that's all right.
It was just a suggestion. Anyway. I love your show.
Bestwich is Haley, y'all played after work? That sounds like
a good idea, Marcus. Joe here just discovered putting a
damp paper towel into cold ash rub on glass amazing

(01:10:45):
cleaner and probably the same can clean the oven door.
Looking forward to watching my husband do this tomorrow. Marcus
had to returned something to Timmy, so I dropped it
off at the parcel coming in Auckland. Off at the
parcel counter. I couldn't believe how much how many ratuns

(01:11:07):
there were. Well, you saw that woman in the US
on the Herald was a woman. She got a Ronaldo
top for six year old son. And the sleeves were
two different lengths, like noticeably one was to the knee
and one was to the belly button. Wasn't good? Do
you know how much stuff I've brought from Timu? Nothing

(01:11:34):
but boy, by the devil, I was tempted. I can't
tell you what for. No, I've never by the only
times everyone come on the website, it's come up with
a dart board and it's just I don't even like
the website. I'll tell you if I'd brought anything out
I want, I'd be honest. I just can't see that
day arriving anytime soon. A long text here from Allen

(01:12:00):
Marcus about Schnitzel. Several years ago, consumer noticed the extra
water has been added to sch causing the unusual parents
of boarding water in the frypan. Since then, the amount
of added water has got worse. The same thing has
been done to steaks and fish, ruining the texture of
these foods, caused them to become bloated, rubbery and two
mechanically toxic to wheat. Many fruit, vegetables and nuts are

(01:12:23):
now carrying excess water cause them to be too firm
and mechanically harmful. Far worse distortions are also being done
to numerous foods, fresh food and all the packaging allan
chill out, Alan Marcus metro fire we rad we have won.
The baffle will come out through the front door, lift

(01:12:44):
and move backwards, then drop the front area of the
baffle to below the front pins and move forward and
out of the firebox. They've done up plenty of times.

(01:13:04):
Marcus just tried one of the suggestions to clean the
glass out. Should have done it when it was cold. Yes,
you can't do when it's hot. You might crack the glass.
And the last thing you want to do is crack the glass.
Can promise you that, Marcus. I receive five matts different

(01:13:25):
sized peer lined leggings, two long sleeve warm tops, ten
cleaning clost finger of gloves, all from in the last
two days. Very pleased. It's the third pair of lined
leggings I've bought. We do have Timu braggers on the show,

(01:13:46):
skouting about the stuff they've bought, cheapers, What have you
sent back? I don't even think they want the stuff back.
I just thought they if you went't happy with you,
just give your money back. I don't thin because they
don't want it back in the warehouse, Well they've got
no warehouse. I think it comes straight from the manufacture.

(01:14:08):
Is that don't want to back? Good evening Titot's Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:14:11):
Welcome there, Marcus. I just heard you talking about water
and the meat I've worked in the pork market in
Auckland a few years ago, and I learned quite a
lot in there. And I saw these legs of pork
coming along a conveyor belt and they went under a
press with about six spears in it, and it pressed
down into the meat and injected water, and you could

(01:14:33):
see the meat actually swelling up as the water went in.
So that's where the water is getting into the meat.
The other thing I heard you talking about cleaning the
grass on the fireplace maybe or whatever. We used to
just put a wet towel in the ashes, a wet
paper towel in the ashes, and you can clean the
clean the sort of stuff off the inside of the grass,

(01:14:56):
no sweat, yep. All right, Okay. What I was going
to tell you about was we harvest our harvested our
little Koma crop in the weekend. We had two plants
and they were given to us a couple of years
ago and we just put them in our little raised
garden at the village that we've got here, and they
never did any good. And at the end of the

(01:15:16):
time when they were ready to be dug, we whipped
them out. Got about two little tumors out from underneath
them and smoothed the ground out and left it, and
two more plants came up later on, so my wife said, oh,
I'll just leave them there, they'll keep the weeds down.
So we did that and the whole garden filled up
with kumra weeds. So the other day we decided to
go down and clear the ground out. So we did that,

(01:15:39):
went down and we got a few coumras out, and
some quite nice shape ones and nice size ones. And
the last one I pulled out took a bit of
pulling out, and I reached down to get hold of
it to pull it up out of the ground, and
I couldn't gloody move it. So I got the spade
under it and give it another bit of a shake
and I pulled this kumra out and it's a beautiful
big cooma and it weighed two and a half kilos.

(01:16:03):
So I've never I've seen some big combas in my time,
but I've never seen one of as nice ASSISI and
it's exactly two and a half kilas.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
What's the lesson in there?

Speaker 24 (01:16:13):
I don't glad, you know, just don't do anything to them,
just to leave them in the garden and let them
do their own thing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Listen to your wife makes sense? Ted, Thank you Jamie, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:16:23):
Hey Marcus, here you going good?

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
Thank you Jamie.

Speaker 21 (01:16:27):
So our house we bought the old owner's ripped out
the old oven style fireplace and put a heat pump.
And because it's in the middle of the country, I
feel like we really need a fireplace. On one thing,
what's a good brand of fireplace to I've been looking,
but I have no idea about what's a good brand.

(01:16:47):
What's a good fireplace or is?

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
Will you put it into the did you say the
heat pumps? Now in an old fire.

Speaker 21 (01:16:54):
Now the heat pump has been put in a different spot,
but where we want to put the fire and in
the corner find it mixed to the heat pump in
the living room. But yeah, there's something about a fire
going that a heat heat pump doesn't give.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
You. You need a fire. Does it get cold where
you are though?

Speaker 10 (01:17:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:17:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:17:14):
Frust mine of two or three degrees in the morning?

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Yea often.

Speaker 21 (01:17:21):
Oh maybe we've only been there a couple of months,
but every morning's pretty cold.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
Ok. You got have you got wood on? Have you
got you got uh Eucalyptus and gums on your property.

Speaker 21 (01:17:33):
Yeah, twelve acres full of trees.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Oh yeah, that's what you want. Have you start together?
Have you started gathering the firewood?

Speaker 21 (01:17:42):
Yeah, I've just been like sending it out, hadding a
few to make a few tracks and stuff. So yeah,
they think the wood already and I'm like, man paying
for power and I could be burning the free woods.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
You know, you might want to get a wood burner
connected to your to uh hot water as well.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:18:01):
I was thinking that we've got guess hot water, so
we don't even have a hot water someone.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Okay, that's that's that out. Yeah, okay, oh everyone have
a listening there, Jamie. But thank you good brands. Would
burners people strange to hear talk about fireplace, it's not
it's really warmer, you not, you know, my first time.
I haven't had my fire going for a long time.
But it stays like this. Linen sheets will be going
on the bed this weekend. Marcus, the Timu food tents

(01:18:25):
of God. What's a food tent? Marcus, I've never seen
anything back to tim who never had to have only
taken in days and for parcels to arrive nothing. What
wrong with the quality of anything I've bought. Just did
a timawarter tonight, aled strip lights, earbuds, silk pillow cases
and travel accessories. Brilliant, Everyone's ordering twenty four to eleven.

(01:18:56):
Good evening, Susette. It's Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:18:57):
Welcome, Hi dead Marcus. Did that person say silk bugs
that they bought on Teamy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Silk air buds and silk pillow cases. I don't know
if they'd be silk from Timmy, but they might be.

Speaker 25 (01:19:19):
Oh interesting. When we were kids' children, we always had
an open fire and Dad would throw Condy's crystals on
the lit fire and it was all spark and shoot
up the chimney and loosen all the foot up the

(01:19:40):
chimney and it would all come down and clean clean itself.
And to start the fire, we'd put a full newspaper
across the opening.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Oh yes, it was always fun to do, wasn't it. Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:19:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
Yes, we did that with the open fire and raw up,
wouldn't it Yes? Unless it caught fire, yourself had to
get in quickly.

Speaker 25 (01:20:02):
Yes, so, but that's all we ever had for heat,
and it was perfectly good. And when I lived in Tokaroa,
which is a freezing cold place, in the winter. I
had a metro fire put in and with a wet back,
and it had a cord, electric cord coming from it

(01:20:26):
that you could plug in, and once the heat got
up to a certain level, the heat pump would kick in,
and boy did it get hot. And of course Tokaroa's
got loads of wood and the Lions Club used to
deliver it for me every winter, and lovely dry pine

(01:20:48):
and so I had loads of free wood and I
missed it. Actually, it was wonderful. I looked forward to
when it got cold enough to get the thing going.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Out of the thing work that you plugged in.

Speaker 25 (01:21:04):
Well, it was a fireplace, you know, where you put
the wood, but also had electric cord coming away from
it that you plugged into the power and so it
had some sort of temperature gauge. I'm not when it
reached that the pump would kick in and spurs out

(01:21:25):
this heat.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Oh, so be a fan. That it would be a
fan that would blow heat from the fire. Makes sense, Okay,
I understand that.

Speaker 25 (01:21:32):
Really hot, So I recommend that it was really good.
If he's wondering what to get metro fire.

Speaker 12 (01:21:40):
With a pump.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Thanks Suzette. Marcus repell at Burners Week brought thousands of
tons via a shiploaid out put a Todo goes to
Japan for power generation converted stations. Pyroclassic firebox is fantastic.
Boons less wooden, clean burning, Marcus. That caller sounds like jam. Well,
it's a changing world. I just called them by their name.

(01:22:07):
Don't ask questions. Does sound like a but nothing's guaranteed
in this world. I wonder why the buy appears to
be buying led strip lights and earbuds and silk pillowcases.
Sounds at the basis of a short story. Canberra over

(01:22:31):
Newcastle sixteen zero. Canaan is not having a good game here.
We dropped from state of origin. That's my pick. I
also picked the top four teams for the end of
the season will be Canberra Raiders, the Bulldogs, Melbourne Storm

(01:22:52):
and Penwith Panthers. Hope I'm wrong. Eighteen to eleven good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:22:58):
Ross, Yeah, evening, Marcus. We met up this house now
and in five we put a palette fire and straight away.
We've had it for twenty years. Just recently we've had
problems with it stopping and starting. Yeah, probably for the

(01:23:22):
last four or five years, we've had services down and
and we've had people come out and change the circuit board,
and they've tried all different things and nothing's really worked.
Store always sort of up and down a bit until
just recently. I had a guy actually he had been
in the industry for thirty years, and I had a

(01:23:43):
service bookedne at the palette shop and they go, oh
the sky rings. He goes, I've just canceled that service.
I'll meet you at your house in ten minutes. Yes, sweet,
So turn up. He comes in. He takes a front
off and the side off gets an orange hoos and
blows through the whole through the hose and a half

(01:24:06):
millimeter hose. What happens is yesh from the five blocks
that hose and it's given by year. So if it's
slightly blocked the fire say yes, no, yes, no, not
too sure with the summon's open the front it's a
safety issue. The day he fixed that, and that was

(01:24:29):
probably about three or four months ago, it's been faultless,
been game so well, best gone right.

Speaker 5 (01:24:39):
So what you and Ross Christ?

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Okay, so they'll be clean burning. You can have pellet
fires there. I thought you might be there.

Speaker 10 (01:24:49):
Yeah, I mean the one we've got as an older one,
because what happens is the auger when it rolls the
palettes around, it goes.

Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
You hear it.

Speaker 10 (01:24:58):
Tuning and then it stops.

Speaker 19 (01:25:00):
Yeah that's quite.

Speaker 10 (01:25:01):
Noisy, quite noisy. But we're going to get a new
one installed this Christmas. It's about ten thousand dollars. It's
going to be one with it all has all the
spinning full time, so you don't they're very silent. You
don't hear nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
What will we do with it? What we do with
what we do with the old one?

Speaker 10 (01:25:21):
I don't know. I don't know what I might. I
don't know what or do with it, other though we
were to give it away or sell it or what.
But yeah, I mean it's I really love it because
we only needed on level two at the most, or
even three, but it goes right out to five and
then minute it's five, it's got a fin and you

(01:25:43):
just you just yet so hot sun real.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
Have the cost of pellets. Have the cost of pellets
remained steady?

Speaker 10 (01:25:54):
Yeah, they aren't too bad. They're about ten dollars forty
eight at mn A ten with fifteen kg beds.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
It's not bad.

Speaker 10 (01:26:03):
Probably, Yeah, it's not too bad a but how.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Long would that how long would that last?

Speaker 10 (01:26:12):
Probably but by team bigs at the time, we probably
go through yeah, oh two days, two and a half
days maybe if you're running it all the time, okay,
and nights for the thing. But there was there was
a shortage when labor got into us. You know how
they all the schools were told they weren't never to

(01:26:34):
use told anymore. Yep, so they fast tracked all the
pellets around the country to hate the schools during the winter.
You speak, shortage, okay, but yeah, yes, so it's apart
from there, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
It's got a bad run twenty years for a pellet fire.
I it sounds I thought it would be quite straightforward,
but it sounds like it's got circuit sports and everything.
So yeah, I'm surprised to hear that. But because basically
it's just an all that just brings them through and burns.
And doesn't it just self feeding or feeds?

Speaker 10 (01:27:10):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean in our old house, we
used to have that unbuilt log fire. But you know,
you'd been probably nine hundred or a thousand dollars a
winter on fire wood and trouble will see, there's so
much it goes up to chimney and doesn't actually hate

(01:27:32):
the room. Yes, So if if you've ever got a
house and it's got one of the Mind books, and
rip it out and put a free standing and triple easy.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Yeah uh huh.

Speaker 10 (01:27:47):
That person that was talking before. We use a damp
paper towel just to wipe the glass when it gets
because it does get a bit sort of sometimes, but
you do have to clean them up a weaver. That's
the only trouble. But yeah, it's it's minor compared to
all the hustles sometimes. I would.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
You've got to go You've got to go to mind
de teeny of its off and then you've got to
store ten bags of pellets, don't you.

Speaker 10 (01:28:17):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's not a mystery. That's
that's easy enough to do that, you know. But it's
good for the environment too because it's untreated and it's
something that can be reused off sawdust, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:31):
Yes, Oh yeah, yeah, I quite. I quite like the
technology of it. I just but you've been a newly
adoptive fuel there for twenty years. Sounds good.

Speaker 10 (01:28:40):
Yeah, Well, I mean I had to get out a
consent for a resource consent, which was about five hundred bucks.
Back then I had to have one smoking lamb in
the hall. But now you've they've changed the law. You've
got to have six smoking lambs now, which I don't
know why because as you open it at.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
All, stop, does it give off much smoke?

Speaker 10 (01:29:08):
No, they're pretty pretty. You wouldn't You wouldn't even tell
what seeing Berni from outside because is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
It much heat? Does much heat go up the chimney.

Speaker 10 (01:29:18):
That it's actually really good with chimney, Yeah? But does
it then you can wrap your clothes around the chimney
inside and heat and dry your clothes that way. Okay,
that's point the point, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Nice to hear from your skin of enjoyed all of
that five from living good evening, Charlie, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Pray you mate, here go good Kelly.

Speaker 9 (01:29:41):
Those pealep fires, it is only one problem with them.
If you lose your power, you can't use them.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
A really good point, you know.

Speaker 9 (01:29:52):
Because if you've got a palette fire, then you can't.
You need power to.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
The screw under the fire.

Speaker 9 (01:30:02):
No other than that. The Lord Berner is just as good,
you know. That's all I want to say.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
I like the fact that you can keep it going
all night. You can wake up in the morning and
it's still going, you know, because you couldn't do that
with a wood far and issue actually get up at
two in the morning and put the little logs on it.

Speaker 9 (01:30:20):
That's true. But if you lose your power halfway through,
like an earthquake or anything like that, or or what
happened to quot and Leaven, then your pellet fires no
good because you can't use it until you've got power.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Can right, You can't override that, you No, you can't
be with a log burner.

Speaker 9 (01:30:41):
You can you can cook on top of it, you
know most log burners. Now, all you've got to do
is you buy your wood. You know, you're still got
to buy you buy your palette. But if you lose
your power, you're going to you still use a log burner,
but you can't use your palete burner because you need

(01:31:02):
the power.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
Probably worth having both.

Speaker 9 (01:31:06):
Poor good luck by lad?

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
How come.

Speaker 21 (01:31:10):
Well?

Speaker 9 (01:31:10):
Because you can't have both. You only have a log
burner or you have a palette burner. You can't have both?

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
Why not?

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
Well, I don't know why, but I know that you can't.
You can't have a you can't have a palette burner
or a palette fire and then and try and change
it over to a log burner. That just don't have them.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
I meant two different things in different parts of the room.
But thank you evening, John, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:31:42):
Oh very well Marcus yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:31:43):
You good.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Thanks John.

Speaker 19 (01:31:45):
I'm just wanting to about the old wood burners tonight. Yes,
just kicking back.

Speaker 5 (01:31:50):
Listen to it.

Speaker 19 (01:31:51):
I'm sort of the last few weeks I've experienced the
whole scenario of them. I can go back to the
eighties when I first got it installed, like when I
first came out, thinking about nineteen eighty five, mid eighties
when everyone had the old fires, and then we're into
these new wood burners, you know, double burning and things
like that. Basically go back then. Well I'm in the

(01:32:16):
sixties now, but so it's forty years ago. The mates
were a couple of plumbers they had they were contracting
to to install these new wood burners and they could
do at the time three a day anyway, So I
got the deal done with them to put one in
my place. Back then, everything's good, We're all that was

(01:32:37):
all working. It was a Kent Forest a great fire
at the time, and it was all going well. We
put a wet back in there about I'm guessing now
thirty years ago, but it was someone who invented a
new wetback system. That it was. They call it a
pulsing thing that was had a marble in it and
they would trapped the water and heat it up and

(01:32:59):
through into the cylinder, which was just it was like
two or three times better than a standard we're back.
That worked well until about four years ago and stopped
working or started to leak into the fire. So we
made me plumber mate installed the fire and the went
back still going. He came around and we sold it

(01:33:19):
all up and put it back in a long story short,
trying to make it quick as possible. It started leaking
again this year, so we pulled it back out and
went to sold it and it blew the bits and
we couldn't fix it. And I'm scratching around things and
what to do. So I took a photo of the
old King Prester and took it into the fire shop
here in town, and I had a look at the

(01:33:41):
photo and really get a new one. So we got
this new new We read metro fire last week we
put it in with me mate still going, so we
put it into my place. But what he could do
in three days, sorry, three installs one day. It took
us took us two days to still.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
Something about the modern worker, isn't it. Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 19 (01:34:06):
So it made me last just listening everybody ringing up
talking about it. But so we got it all set
up and the fires gone marvelous last seven days. That
the wet back it will not click in. I've been
up on the roof today and the rain pouring water
down the vent as trying to he thinks it could
be an air bubble or something.

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
The angle.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
So the wet bas not a marble one.

Speaker 19 (01:34:30):
No, the new sorry that was the original one was
the marble one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
So this one's this one's just. This one's just a
pipe that goes through the fire and into the hot
water cylinder.

Speaker 19 (01:34:38):
Right, No, the pipes come out of the wall from
the cylinder. But actually the the reticulating part of the
wet backers is literally screwed to the outside fire box,
not in the fire itself. Okay, I know it sounds
I know it sounds strange. Even my mate had troubled

(01:34:59):
getting his head around it because we had to I
had to buy the wetback parts separately to the fire.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
So the wet back pipe is just screwed to the
outside of the firebox.

Speaker 19 (01:35:09):
Yeah, it comes as a triangular thing that's got a
big cobpipe rung through it and it's literally screwed on
to the outside of the firebox.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Are the angles all right? You know it's flowing the
right direction?

Speaker 19 (01:35:24):
Angles all right, there's one to twelve. We've measured all that.
It all all worked, and we've we tried our best.
But I haven't called him back to fix it, but
he said it trouble. Just pour water down there into
the vent from the on the roof in which I've
done three times and it's still because of My cylinder
is also hopped up to a solar system and it

(01:35:45):
gives you the temperature of the the top and bottom
of the cylinder. And today when I got home, before
I lit the fire, the top of the cylinder was
telling me that fifty six degrees celsius And after about
four hours of the fire go not drawing any water off,
it was down to fifty two. Okay, was just we're

(01:36:07):
trying our best, but we haven't got the fires working wonderfully.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
What do you do with your old fire? Any market
for those?

Speaker 19 (01:36:15):
Well that's the that's the other part of the whole
story of the last four years of wet backs. The
day was about three weeks ago when I decided to
buy the new fire. That that was a Friday, So
it was I think it was three weeks ago. Went
over to my batch over the wire rapper lit the
fire over there and there was this big bang and
the glass cracked and smoke was pouring out and and

(01:36:37):
we're all sort of running for cover and blah blah blah.
Long story short, we sided I, we'll have to replace
the fire. Of course, Well I thought, I've got one,
and I've got one handy. I took it over yesterday
and we installed it the old fire, installed it with
your mate, with me mate. Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
How did that take to install?

Speaker 19 (01:36:58):
Well, we we I reckon without there was no wetback
system on it, so it was about three or four hours.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
Okay, so it's back to form.

Speaker 19 (01:37:08):
Yeah, Well.

Speaker 11 (01:37:11):
It wasn't.

Speaker 19 (01:37:11):
It wasn't like putting a new one. It was just
swapping one in there. But pretty straightforward.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
But you've got a lot of wood at the beach
as well, have you.

Speaker 19 (01:37:19):
Well, we have. But the reason why I had to
put it in yesterday my neighbor at the batch over
there four weeks ago he unfortunately died and the family
wanted to ask me to use the batch to spread
his ashes down at the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
You got to help out. You've got to help out with.

Speaker 19 (01:37:35):
That, absolutely, But I didn't want them there staying without
a fire. I wanted to use one, so I had
to have it off work and get over the yesterday
to install it. So hopefully that's all good for them
and they'll we I some cozy and woman doing the
stuff for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
Do you mind me asking me your bitches?

Speaker 19 (01:37:54):
Ocean beach?

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
I don't know where that is. It's not I thought
I knew the Hawks Bay well above Castle above Castle Point.

Speaker 19 (01:38:03):
No, No, that's the Hawks Bay Ocean, but it's Lake
Pirie wherever?

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
Oh yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 23 (01:38:09):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
So on the way to is it Nawi? Is it
run that way?

Speaker 19 (01:38:13):
Well, that's that's you go the other way you come
out of the room attackers that sorry, turned back to Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
But far as you have the lodge, yes, there's quite
there's quite that market lodge there isn't there?

Speaker 19 (01:38:28):
There is world famous. Let's just go past there. And
there's fifty your batches just around the coast there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Oh yeah, look I'm there, Yeah I am. I don't
think I've been there.

Speaker 19 (01:38:41):
Okay, it'd be pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Pretty wild, is it?

Speaker 19 (01:38:46):
Very very well? Absolutely just typical well classic New Zealand nature.
And it's best, you know, where the seas coming in there.
You only get a few days of a year where's calm.
Just wonderful to be there, you know. It's just good
for your heart and soul, and everyone's friendly and everyone
looks after each other and it's just a wonderful place.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
To be brilliant. Okay. Oh and you got that all sorted.
So the people will stay and it will be.

Speaker 5 (01:39:11):
Warm, I hope.

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
So.

Speaker 19 (01:39:15):
But it was when it was raining yesterday, I was
on the roof trying to fix it all up. It
was still leaking water. But I figured if they light it,
it will it'll be it'll be right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Okay. So when you come down the old yeah, okay,
So when you come down the old crossing, the old railway,
and you just turn from a cross creek, you just
turn right and it's about twenty minutes drive from that
down to the coast. Is it.

Speaker 19 (01:39:39):
From Feaston? It's forty k to the.

Speaker 2 (01:39:42):
Okay, Okay, Yeah, she's a pretty wild She's a pretty
wild lake that one too, isn't it? Like what that
kicks up?

Speaker 19 (01:39:51):
That's the top lake Lake Warrifor and then you got
the bottom lake blake Oki. Yeah, okay, which is part
of the theory. I'm sure all the Valentonians and people
I'm talking about I better.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Get there, John, Thanks, But found that interesting good stuff.
Sixteen six canber over Newcastle Marcus with a woodburn. If
you put a hardwood like log like gum Manuka total
or Putakawa before heading to bed, then there will still
be enough hot coals the one to spark up and
start again. Cure Marcus. I love my panet fire. It's
on at the moment. It's an evolution model which replaced

(01:40:23):
an old younker a number of years ago. The glow
is so lovely and free, warm, economically and so practical.
I cleared every two days in winter, and its service
every year. It does not produce much ash at all.
I put the ash in the garden. I buy my
fifteen kilogram nature flame pellet bags from min to ten.
It's really important to have it serviced every year to
prevent electrical failures and to make sure the fire is
working correctly. You can buy generators at night to ten

(01:40:49):
is a backup in case of a power outage. There
are so many new and practical pellet fire models now,
they're wonderful. I'm going to put another one another part
of my house when I can afford that. That's how
much I love them. Thanks for chatting with us all,
Melissa brilliant, would the generated just before the before for
the planet fire? Would it let me know anyway? High bullets, Marcus,

(01:41:11):
welcome kill You're doing good, Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:41:15):
Good on my chimney. Sweet still does the old clean
from up top? He gets up and does it, does it,
takes the hat off, you know, and does his work
up there?

Speaker 2 (01:41:24):
When did you ask get it done?

Speaker 10 (01:41:29):
Two and three months ago?

Speaker 5 (01:41:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
I never knew they could do it with your kitten
kerboodle because does is he on his own or he
has a mate with him?

Speaker 10 (01:41:37):
No, he's on his own. Yeah, it takes takes the
takes the plate out down below free and then he
gets up top gives it a clean out and then
comes in vacuums everything from from the inside.

Speaker 5 (01:41:52):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 10 (01:41:52):
It does a good job.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
You put that cloth out in front of the fire.
It's quite You've got to be quite systematic with it,
don't you.

Speaker 8 (01:41:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:41:59):
Yeah, Now, house fires, cass. You've obviously heard a cass. Yes,
And nineteen fifty eight or fifty nine, the old railway house.
We never we never spent much time in the lounge.
Everything sort of revolved around the kitchen, around the old

(01:42:20):
cast iron fire, you know. And then the first fire,
unlit in the winter in the lounge just had me
just burst through the ceiling and the whole place was
up in flames within two minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Just because of what because there was a gap in
the chimney.

Speaker 10 (01:42:43):
Yeah, probably rats or bird nests up there, you know.
But God was amazing how how you know, I still
remembered as a kid, amazing how how cricket engulfed the
whole house. The train stopped. By the time the fire
engine got from Arthur's Pass, we're virtually moved in next door,

(01:43:10):
were down the road into into a into a holiday cabin. So, yeah,
that was a bit of a It was a bit
of a trial. Lost everything.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
But what was that?

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
What was the point of cast? From a railway point
of view, it was just a station, was it?

Speaker 8 (01:43:24):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (01:43:25):
I know it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Was just a station and stationed just for and a
water tower for the steam. Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:43:34):
It also had turntable, a big turntable where the engine
used to turn around. There were five railway houses at
the time four when we left. Obviously there was a
holiday batch just at the main entrance. But up up
the hill directly opposite us was I think it was

(01:43:58):
a D.

Speaker 5 (01:43:58):
S I R.

Speaker 10 (01:44:00):
Station and we used to we used to take the
up scraps for for for their chickens. Yep, they actually lived.
They actually lived up there, and my god they were
still there now.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
Well, why would have there been a turntable.

Speaker 10 (01:44:20):
For the engine to turn around in case they never
got through to through to Arthur's Past. There was there
was a there was a point the other side of
Coraline between Coralin and Arthur's Past that used to freeze
and the sun never got to it to turn the

(01:44:41):
whole winter, and they nicknamed it Siberia.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
And the contingency to turn the engines around.

Speaker 10 (01:44:49):
And yeah, the truck used to listen to eight to
ten inches, just just with the frost. And we used
to go through their work because we had to travel
to others past the school every day and guards van.

Speaker 2 (01:45:05):
Would you travel? Okay? So were the railcars going through
there in as well?

Speaker 10 (01:45:08):
And no, it was the old it was the old
steam engine was with the you know, with the it
with all the wagons in the in the the guard
vent tucked on the end. And quite often we'd get
to part. Quite often we'd get to Coraline and we
couldn't go any further, and we'd play around in Coraline.

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Lady in the railway house he would make us toddy
and soup and stuff, and and if we eventually got through,
we would carry on. Otherwise the train back of back
to cass Some they had done that two or three times,
I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
Was it long? Was it an hour's journey from Kess
to Arthur's Pass?

Speaker 10 (01:45:56):
Oh? Probably probably a bit less okay?

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
And with the kids come with kids come the other
way from a tira what that? What is it?

Speaker 10 (01:46:04):
Uh? Yeah, yeah, I would say so. But I think
they would have I think they would have come over
the hill in the old jelloppies. Oh, yeah, okay, if
anything here, unless unless they went further the other way.
I'm not sure. I remember. There was my We used
to you know, the window that used to jut out
in the guard's end. You could sort of sit in

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the view of a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:46:27):
We used to.

Speaker 10 (01:46:28):
We used to take turns, and anyway, it was my
turn and I'm up there. My brother was the older brother.
He wanted to see something and he was sort of
shoving his way in and because I refused to move.
The next thing, the window popped and the guard just
grabbed my ankle as we're going over the ravine the
river just before passed. So that was that was quite

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exciting for a young six year old.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
Wow, how many years were you in then?

Speaker 10 (01:46:57):
But oh, probably just maybe two windows? Yeah, maybe probably
two years year longer.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Then where did you get stationed?

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
Well, you wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 10 (01:47:10):
We went to a place called Copra on the marhapinially.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
Yeah I've been there yet with fire doctors yep.

Speaker 5 (01:47:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:47:17):
I actually started school in Kingston, believe it or not.
And then from Kingston went to went to.

Speaker 2 (01:47:25):
We had dared must have liked the remote places to
go cope Afra. Goodness, not much there.

Speaker 10 (01:47:30):
Well, it was it was all to do with promotion
we had. We started off in Staircase U Cronaden, Fernie Hurst, Littleton, Kingston,
Cass Corporal A Wira and then back to christ Church,

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so all within the space of you know, I think
I was ten by the time we got back to
by the time we got back to christ Church, and
we we bunked up in a rally house just around
the corner and the eddies and railway workshops.

Speaker 2 (01:48:09):
Brilliant. Oh, but I'm going to move on. But that's
that's a end of story. So yeah, I haven't loved
talking to you about that. That's great, I know, coopewa
for avere well, so thank you for that. Good evening, Adam.
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:48:21):
Oh hello, Marcus, how are you doing. I earlier on there,
Mommy saying so.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
I do mind you're saying so, but anyway, just do
our beast.

Speaker 6 (01:48:32):
Yeah, just on the coblic Ur nineteen ninety five, I'd
cook out this old firebox and I replaced it with
the then state of the art model. A couple of
interesting things. When the Sloman came around, he explained to
me that I asked him if I could put in
a whitbeck, and he explained to me that this particular

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model wouldn't be suited because this model was worth in
my budget brains, that's one of the appeals. But he said,
this particular model Warden's, wouldn't be ideal to put a whickback.
And and im why, he said, because your wet back
will draw boy. He actually asked me to make up
with my family, which I thought rather odd at the time,

(01:49:15):
but I say, okay, I said, this myself is Aaron Doores,
a teenage daughter and a son, a young son. He said, well,
the teenage daughter is a bit of an issue. I said,
why is that? He said, because have you never heard?
You never noticed how long a teenage girl has been
in the shower drawing off whole order? I said, I

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can't say anyway, He explained to me that this unit
I was wanting, as I say, wouldn't be suitable for
wet back because a wet back, this particular wet back
we got a three gallon tank, will draw off between
four to six killer wats of power from the unit.

(01:49:56):
He is only only giving up a maximum of fourteen
killer wats. That took the model, he said, I myself,
and what I was suggested to do is go to
the next model up. If you're wanting a wet back,
he said. The other option you have is that you
can go to what's called if you want to retain
this particular model, he can go to what's referred to

(01:50:18):
as a water booster, which will only draw up a
maximum of two killer wats, which will give you sufficient
heating ability within your home, he said. And he made
another interesting point. He said, your home as what's withdrew
to as a south north home and I was a
bit puzzled. Let so he explained it. He said, your

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living space is at the north end and your bedrooms
are up at the south end. And he said Zealand
is governed by southerlyes and with your home being being weatherboard,
it will the wind will naturally drift, the airflow will
naturally come from south to north. So now your maximum

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heat that will will only concentrate on the northern end,
which is the living room. And it's very unlikely that
you'll get heat up with the beatings.

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
And it is really interesting, Adam, thanks so much that
twenty away from twelve Ross Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:51:14):
Welcome, Hi, Marcus is Ross here on the first time
call a long time listener. I've got a martial heater.
Have you heard what they are?

Speaker 21 (01:51:27):
Not?

Speaker 8 (01:51:28):
Really? They were invented by Henry Marshall about fifty years ago.
I've had this in for forty years and it's a
wood it's a wood burner. It's around and it's a

(01:51:48):
double jacket and the fire is actually inside the Yeah,
it's in the side of you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
I think I think I do know what you're saying.
I think i'm having Are you saying that the fire
is actually almost in the insulated water cylinder?

Speaker 8 (01:52:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. We had a hot plate on
it originally, but about ten to fifteen years ago it
starts the leak, so they cut that off and the
water jacket was actually going over that even but it

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does all our water hot water. It's not hooked up
to power though that you could have had an element
in it years ago and sitting underneath it never been
hooked on it, and you could burn anything in it.
Originally we used to throw anything in it, you know,
plastic heated up pretty quickly and ordent to it these days,

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because I think you'd have the services coming around chasing it,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
Just a couple of questions. I've never heard of them.
Was yours a cylinder going vertical or horizontal?

Speaker 8 (01:53:05):
Horizontal? Like all lying down?

Speaker 10 (01:53:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
Okay, I can see some pictures of ones now, So
will it being double and hide? Will it be the
Did it give off much heat?

Speaker 26 (01:53:18):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:53:19):
Yeah, quite quite a bit. Yeah, personally would especially when
we had the hot fate on it earlier. You know
what I mean. You can't touch it once it's heated up,
it's too hot and burn it, you know. But if
I said we've got a running on going every night,

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we've got to do our hot water or sometimes in
the summertime, every second day, enough water to keep it hot,
you know. But yeah, i'd chase after wood around the place.
It can be old furniture and stuff I've been knocking up.
I've got a friend doing that and posted in it.

(01:54:01):
You know what I mean. It doesn't need much water
wood in it to burn it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
You know, I've never even seen it. I've never even
seen anyone's I've never seen one.

Speaker 8 (01:54:12):
No, I don't think there was a heck of a
lot of the mate but they're mainly in the tower
on the area where where Henry used to live, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
Yeah, And why do they burn? Why do they burn
so well?

Speaker 8 (01:54:29):
Well, I don't know if you say burned so well.

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
But will you say anything in that? Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:54:37):
Yeah, burns enough for us to keepers of water. I've
never had to have water, never paid for power for
heating the water here for forty odd years, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
So you use it, you keep it going in the summer.

Speaker 8 (01:54:54):
Yeah, yeah, it would only go for a better hour,
you know what I mean. Half a dozen pieces of
four of the two ing like that, short short pieces
of that are kindeling under it, just enough to heat
the water up. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
I wonder why the technology didn't keep going because it
seems very good.

Speaker 8 (01:55:14):
I have no idea, but we, as I said, we
could throw anything in it. Originally you wouldn't do so now,
not unless you thought you'd get caught by Yeah, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
And you've had no problems with it over all those years.

Speaker 8 (01:55:33):
No, only only only about fifteen years ago when it
started to leap because of the hot plate that it
was square on top of it, and they we had
to get the plumbers around and they cut that off.
The jacket had gone over there as well, but I
mean it was cut off, and so it's only the

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barrel and it slf. It's about two and a half
three two and a half feet or so of the
area where the fire burned happens inside it, you know
what I mean. It's double decade and in fact, I
haven't even cleaned the chimney for about four or five years. Well,

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didn't do it again.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
I'm quite festive with that.

Speaker 5 (01:56:20):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:56:20):
Thanks for coming through about that, Nigel, it's Marcus.

Speaker 26 (01:56:23):
Good evening, Good evening, Nigel.

Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
Flip. Yeah, anyway, Okay, it's always a bad way to
start a call when you get the host name wrong.
But we'll because your name can't be Nigel, is it
your just your your radio name.

Speaker 26 (01:56:39):
It's a real name. It was just just just an
identity crisis, Marcus. Have you never had an identity crisis?

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
I don't think so, I hope not.

Speaker 26 (01:56:52):
Anyway, what I was going to say is you're talking
about the other night I don't know, it might have
been last week even Anyway, you're on the nightmare about
restoring the passenger train from Moscow to the Needen Yes,
so I want to know, are you coming up for
the All Rex versus France game?

Speaker 17 (01:57:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:57:12):
I imagine you no, because they're just such that France
have sent the beating down. If it was going to
be a good test, I would have but but there
was much pressure for me to go. But I just
I just get I get so annoyed the ancestral rugby.
How they just out of World Cup years. There's too
much foxing and evading.

Speaker 26 (01:57:32):
No, I don't think the spring Box will send their
B team out.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Here for the when's that.

Speaker 26 (01:57:39):
Ah there later on and those two tests are in
the North. I reckon it's not faired. Dunedan should have
got one of the Springbok reckon.

Speaker 2 (01:57:49):
I feel bad for Dunedin because it's a great well
you know, I mean they like their rugby.

Speaker 26 (01:57:54):
Yeah, we're stronger with we're stronger with rugby union and
the South here of the rugby league leagues more popular
in Auckland. And isn't it christ Church, Well they've.

Speaker 2 (01:58:05):
Got a team in Auckland, christ it has always been strong.

Speaker 26 (01:58:09):
Oh they haven't got a team in the NRL thow
Auckland has.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
Yes, that's right, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 23 (01:58:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:58:18):
So and what about the opening of the new City
rail Link and Auckland. Are you going up to the
opening of that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
We don't know when that's Do we know when that's
happening yet?

Speaker 26 (01:58:28):
Next year? We don't know the specific days.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
No, I think it probably could. I think probably that
could go over by about a year. I'd be surprised.
But anyway, Yeah, I'd very much like to be involved
with that, So hopefully I will be up there for that.
I don't know a lot of people will be there
riding on the first couple of days. I imagine they
probably will be a out of curious people.

Speaker 26 (01:58:48):
Yeah, but do you think I will open for for
christ Church's new ru Stadium. Well, that's to open in April.
Wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
Followed that so much?

Speaker 26 (01:59:01):
Okay, I thought you loved christ Church.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
I think I don't think the stadium's in the right place.

Speaker 26 (01:59:09):
Oh, yes it is. It's close to the CBDH.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
I think it should be close to CBD. I think
it's the wrong place to put it. I think they
create shadows around them, and I don't think they're good.

Speaker 5 (01:59:17):
Look.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Yeah, I think I think they should have put it
out of the CBD. I think it's the wrong place.

Speaker 26 (01:59:24):
No, I don't think so, because look at Auckland wants
a roof stadium and they always did.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
They only have about one thing on a week and
the rest of the time it just is. It's just
a dead zone in the town. I think stadiums are
terrible in the middle of towns. Look at that ded
area around for sythe bar. Its terrible.

Speaker 26 (01:59:44):
No, but look at the but Auckland have been pushing
for years for a new stadium to replace hed and.

Speaker 2 (01:59:51):
Park, and some some have but only people that are idiots.

Speaker 26 (01:59:56):
Ah, and look the flash stadium. You saw the pictures
of it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
They always make out they're going to bring millions of
dollars to the economy and all sorts of stuff. It
neverpends out. They're always stadiums are always a.

Speaker 26 (02:00:10):
Disaster well or only benefit Auckland. It doesn't benefit the
whole country. Those visitors have come here for big events,
they're not necessary if they come to Auckland for a
big event, they're not necessary going to come to christ
just to eat in a room. The cargo away.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
But the people can't be happy with Forsyth Bar, can they,
Because I mean they get nothing there. There's been no
concerts forever and they don't even get the good rugby tests.

Speaker 26 (02:00:37):
Well, we've had a good run since twenty eleven. It's
open than twenty eleven.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
Do you think you've had a good run compared to
what you've paid for it?

Speaker 26 (02:00:46):
You know, I'm happy with it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:50):
Oh if you think you're better off with the old
the old stadium, Carisbrook, there'll be my take anyway. Are
nice to talk, Nigel? Nigel? Thank you? Almost time for
me to go people, and that feels like about time
I should return on Monday. Keep warm. They want to

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club dut the Bluff Rugby Club tomorrow, but I don't
necessarily know if that's gonna be a thing because the
weather looks terrible, which is a shame because the kids
need to run around tomorrow. Yeah, forty percent chance of
rain and ten degrees. Oh it might happen. Weather looks

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terrible or weak? Actually, oh well we live and we
learn strong in rugby union in Dunedin. Where did Highland
just finish? Exactly? Marcus? Is Nigel always calling you? Nigel's
induce themselves? So I got no idea, but it freaks
me out every day. I feel kind of slightly unhinged.

(02:01:52):
Marcus Andrew again have been looking at firebox on the
internet and a fire retailer recommends using a cloth or
paper towels dipped in vinegar to clean the fireplace, glass
and the doors. That's good and tell.

Speaker 1 (02:02:04):
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