Smoke control area

Silverbull

We are thinking about getting another stove make sure its DEFRA approved.

Im trying to find out about them. Whats the difference? How can the smoke be different than from my old one? My old stove is excellent. I can turn the air right down and the wood last for ages, but boils water on top in no time.

spinningsheep

I have an open fire and I live literally in the city centre save for a few streets away, in Stoke on Trent (google pics of Stoke back in the day when thousands of bottle kilns belched out black smoke 24/7 !!) and I burn house coal trebles and logs too but usually I start the fire with the housecoal, then add smokeless eggs, and then later once there is a good scorching bed of coals, add a log or 2 and turn the air right down, and honestly, I have looked and you can hardly see a whisp of smoke from my chimney, and even when it does, you cannot say there is any more than if you had just thrown a shovel of smokeless on, so if anyone complained, just make sure you have a bag of smokeless to show, and cover up your logs!!

Silverbull

spinningsheep wrote: »

I have an open fire and I live literally in the city centre save for a few streets away, in Stoke on Trent (google pics of Stoke back in the day when thousands of bottle kilns belched out black smoke 24/7 !!) and I burn house coal trebles and logs too but usually I start the fire with the housecoal, then add smokeless eggs, and then later once there is a good scorching bed of coals, add a log or 2 and turn the air right down, and honestly, I have looked and you can hardly see a whisp of smoke from my chimney, and even when it does, you cannot say there is any more than if you had just thrown a shovel of smokeless on, so if anyone complained, just make sure you have a bag of smokeless to show, and cover up your logs!!

Very good post, thank you.

We will do exactly as you have said.

The only trouble is just by the back door we have a huge log store, to dry out all the logs I chop. Also chopping shed with an axe and chopping block with years of woodchip and saw dust.

I will say its just for decoration and we wouldnt ever think of using them on the fire.


Just goes to show how crazy smoke control areas are.