Why did I bother?

Viper_7

Swipe wrote: »

Leaving wood to rot gives out the same amount of carbon gases as burning it.

apart from the Methane the rotting process also goes on to produce...

albyota

ohh oh, here comes the judge, jury and hanging sqad.....run...clothahump....run, I suppose someone from the electrical police will be here soon to tell you off..... and inform you that you can't put a flat panel heater in a bathroom and you must be part P certified fully qualified electrician to fit it......just off to nick some more wood..!!!!

P.S where is your licience for that chainsaw........GET THE POLICE!!!

KimYeovil

(I think the trigger was more the silly, inappropriate heading - the solution in the OP's op has nothing to do with Economy 7. Save money on your electricity bill - stop using electricity for heating. Brilliant work, Vroomfondel.)

tori.k

Going back to the OP main statement i agree you can save a lot dropping the E7 depending on your night use.
EG our oct/jan Bill 08/09 cost us £333.29 on EDF E7 tarrif (running one nightstorage and immersion heater)
For cost for the same amount of units on EDF standard tarrif is £216.15, saving of £117.14 not to be sniffed at.

markharding557

I would think the police have more important matters at hand than chasing someone over a piece of half rotted wood:rotfl:

Pincher

I think you'll find that landowners including the National Trust used to welcome people removing fallen trees and related vegetation, because it saves time and money in clearing costs. People living in the country side have been doing it forever, with plenty to go round locally.

The balance is bound to shift as energy costs rise, and it becomes viable for people to drive out of suburbs to go wood hunting. These people who don't live locally have no respect for the land, and could do all kinds of damage, felling perfectly good trees that have landslide and flood prevention functions. The extreme example is East European cities with denuded green belts in economic recessions.

Once bylaws come into force, because individual wood collection is rampant, it will turn black market. So the question will be, when that knock on the door comes, with an offer of cheap wood, are you going to say NO?

The black marketeers know you need wood, because you have smoke coming out of your chimney.
From a marketing point of view, it's very efficient in consumer targeting.

[Deleted User]

I too was more than a little surprised to see this thread swing in one post to 'I've saved money this way and the utility company gave me bad advice' which is useful for all.., to an accusation of theft and wrecking the earth due to burning wood.

Congratulations to a person who thought on their feet and found ways to save on utility useage (note the points on how they'd actually CUT BACK on their useage).., decreasing their carbon footprint. I'm not quite sure how it was assumed that this person was becoming a mass tree murderer ransacking the neighbourhood of all their trees/hedgerows. We'd better all go and alarm our tree's (not).

Wickedkitten

Wouldn't it have been quicker to just not use the night storage heater so often and get a halogen one for the times you don't?

clothahump

You obviously do not understand how night storage heating works, they are turned on in the autumn as it starts to get colder, they then click into life when the economy7 meter cuts in at midnight, they then suck the electric for 7 hours until the circuit is turned off, the heat then drifts out slowly during the day.

mikey72

Viper_7 wrote: »

The peacocks
Like overhanging btranches that fall in your garden - they belong to the neighbour.
you can cut back any overhang - but you must give them back!

I've got this vision of Viper_7 being arrested, holding a peacock trying to get the egg back in.
Obviously never been out in the country, it's a race to get wood off the road round here, normally it's a public service before someone hits it.