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navig8r

Interesting post.
As some one who has been heating their home with wood currently a (Jotul F3 TD in living room and multifuel Stanley cooker/boiler in the kitchen ) for 3 weeks short of 40 years I would be very interested in your interpretation of "heats" in terms of the temperature through out the house.
Dave

AGBAGB

Interpretation of "HEATS" hmm.

Iv'e but the details down here but briefly:

Minimum of 18 degrees where we need it in a 5 bed old house without a backboiler on the fire. We have the dinning room door,where the fire, is open. Heating upstairs is no problem with passive convection. To keep my Study (downstairs) at 18 I close the bedroom doors and it works, just. Same for the front room.

A vent/fan or something to assist heat transfer/mix downstairs is at the back of my mind. So far it's not a problem big enough for me to do anything about.

Non of the family complains at 18 degrees (Derbyshire born). The central heating kicks in at 17.5 which tells me I need to put some more wood on.

A._Badger

I'm, glad to see some reality about the cost of burning wood creeping in at last. Far too often people seem to think they can either get wood for free (some may manage this, but most rarely seem to appreciate just how much wood a stove uses).

However aesthetically pleasing burning it may be, wood can be quite an expensive option (particularly so in areas where there aren't many trees).

Cardew

AGBAGB

I echo the sentiments of the post above - nice to see a realistic appraisal of the realities of wood burning.

Nice website as well.

Just take issue on one point on your website - the need for lots of kindling. I have used for many years an electric firelighter(made now by Grenadier). It is like an overgrown hairdryer on a stand - just point it at logs(or coal) and in minutes you have a blazing fire. Great for barbeques in the summer as well.

CharlieBilly

Might be nice web site but you cant advertise it on mse nor advertise it as a couple of your posts do

ps you are still advertising

Cardew

CharlieBilly wrote: »

Might be nice web site but you cant advertise it on mse

Why? What is he selling?

CharlieBilly

It doesn't matter we all have to abide by the rules

AGBAGB

Cardew wrote: »

AGBAGB
Just take issue on one point on your website - the need for lots of kindling. I have used for many years an electric firelighter(made now by Grenadier). It is like an overgrown hairdryer on a stand - just point it at logs(or coal) and in minutes you have a blazing fire. Great for barbeques in the summer as well.

It's not something Iv'e ever though about, as I do quite a bit woodworking and DIY and just chop the scraps up. I do remeber my grandad had a gas poker for the coal fire though. I'll search the electric lighter out.

:eek: just trawled the rules, sorry folks :whistle: sorted now.

rendor

We have a woodburner and although price to install has definately been positive for us. We didn't have a chimney in the house but have put in a twin wall system. Now using much less lpg as once the stove gets going it tends to warm most of the house.
We can burn both wood and smokeless coal but I've been told its not a good idea to try and burn both together.
If I've got a good coal fire going am I able to put a log of wood on top from time to time?
I've heard that to burn both together can produce sulphuric acid which I suppose is not beneficial to the chimney.

A._Badger

rendor wrote: »

We have a woodburner and although price to install has definately been positive for us. We didn't have a chimney in the house but have put in a twin wall system. Now using much less lpg as once the stove gets going it tends to warm most of the house.
We can burn both wood and smokeless coal but I've been told its not a good idea to try and burn both together.
If I've got a good coal fire going am I able to put a log of wood on top from time to time?
I've heard that to burn both together can produce sulphuric acid which I suppose is not beneficial to the chimney.

I've heard the same, but tended to file it, under 'unsubstantiated rumour'. I asked my (very experienced) sweep about it and he said, go ahead. I suspect, if there is a problem at all, it relates to burning a lot of wood and a lot of coal together a lot of the time. It's hard to imagine that the occasional log does much damage.