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justskint wrote:Being a bit of del boy, I might be inclined to sell your timber/lumber instead of turning it into ash, albeit I don't think slugs like soot/ash too much as it dries them out.

We burn it on our wood burner... heats our house, cooks our food, and if you burn just wood it is a fantasic addition to the veg plot or your fruit trees (potash... see)

I don't think that there is much of a market for reclaimed wood, and unless you have a sawmill your unlikely to sell to furniture makers

We missed the point! Not every scrap of timber is worth saving but, in my experience some timber is.

Had to google it, but I get it now: lead character in sitcom Only Fools and Horses, full of get-rich schemes.

Well! The Reliant is a tad small, tips over on the corners.

Well if you want an old piano, you are welcome to ours, it is danger of being cut up for firewood

Mock me, I don't mind!

At the moment for example, I would dearly like to fit more shelves in my house and finances being a major issue, I am always looking for new sources of supply. Now, being a paid-up-member of the re-use community, myself and like minded people being constantly vigilant and aware of what is being discarded as rubbish and therefore of low, or nil value, but we are all guilty of waste to greater or lesser degree due to this mindset which is difficult to shrug-off. If we don’t like it, it has a low value! Many a house has been refurbished, floorboards, studwork ripped out, decent furniture discarded due to fashion. All burnt on the great bonfire of life!

Here endeth the lesson for the day.

justskint wrote: Mock me, I don't mind!

Nope, being serious, if anyone wants an old piano they can have it, we bought it from supershed (a place where stuff that can still have a use is fished out of the tip and sold cheaply) cost us $20 (6GBP), but we didnt check it before we got it, thinking that it would just need tuning, but the workings inside were damaged. Unless anyone can come up with an alternative use for it.

I would second the recyled timber for making your own furniture. I made our dining table and chairs out of old floorboards, bits of wood that were used to separate carcasses at a meat processing works and some other recycled pieces. It is often nicer looking with more character than the new stuff as well.

Possom do you know what your piano is made from? Is it veneered? Could you use it for some sort of interesting shaped planter?

It is from the 1960s so not a great looker as pianos go and the varnish needs sanding and re-doing. But a planter, yes that could be a possibility, we can chuck it into the woods, fill it up and put succulents in the top, would definitely be a conversation piece if nothing else.

If you deliver I'll have it.