If it works, ban it ...

[Bruce]

If they did, I wouldn't give a fig.

[Dave Liquorice]

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I would, I like figs, fresh ones are much nicer than the dried of course.

Whats the problem of having to buy 20l of creosote anyway, it's doesn't go off. Need to do the shed again and I'd like to use creosote 'cause the soaks into the timber and works. These silly water/wax "ducks back" things fall off after 12 months.

[The Medway Handyman]

I thought that had healed up?

[OG]

Recovery periods for chlorine induced ozone depletion is measured in decades.

But at least the depletion has stopped getting worse.

[Frank Erskine]

I love the smell of real creosote, as well as that of boiling bitumen as used for flat roofing work. They both have proper 'engineering' smells as opposed to poncey 'home improvement' things like lavender, ginger et. al.

[Frank Erskine]

My local ironmonger Tony P, (a true 'four candles' type) will supply creosote in 25 litre quantities.

[dlzc]

Why is that? Fluorocarbons can do exactly the same job.

Well, we have no ozone hole today, it has been less than record size since 2006 when it does form, and CFC levels have been slowly dropping but are still non-zero. The only place these things leave the ecosystem is in the intense radiation found at-and-above the ozone layer...

Water vapor is a much bigger player, but we don't stop industry and ground all aircraft. Maybe we fight the battles we can...

David A. Smith

[jgharston]

I would have thought heat from the bonfire would've been more of a concern wot with today's plastic cars and wotnot. Here's a ploker who drove up to my fence and parked next to my bonfire a few years ago: