Overnight burn in a woodburner

whichwoodstoves

Does anyone know anything about the govornment grants you can get for installing a woodburning boiler?

highrisklowreturn

muckybutt wrote: »

Burning household coal is Illegal even if you are in N Ireland, the clean air act 1981 is what you need to read, you will never be able to burn household coal without producing smoke and if you get reported then you will undoubtedby be fined or prosecuted.
www.doeni.gov.uk/smokecontrolguidance.doc

All I can say to this is LOLLOOLOLOLOL Where I live everyone burns it so muhuhahahahaha:money::j:beer::D:rotfl::T:):j:money:

suki1964

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

All I can say to this is LOLLOOLOLOLOL Where I live everyone burns it so muhuhahahahaha:money::j:beer::D:rotfl::T:):j:money:

Speak for yourself only please, I live in NI and I dont burn coal on a stove and tbh I dont know anyone who does

ventureuk

whichwoodstoves wrote: »

Does anyone know anything about the govornment grants you can get for installing a woodburning boiler?

I think the grants are available for gravity fed MDF pellet burning with scrubbers to remove the toxins. You get paid to burn the MDF by weight and the installation costs are a 25yr loan at 0%, whilst it is technically a wood burner.

A friend of a friend who lives in an old farm on the moors does it and I found out a little about it.

Burning MDF is not for me however.

Greenfires

You could have a look at

http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/portal/page?_pageid=77,621199&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

for starters. You may well find though that it's another government scheme that looks good on the face of it, but that it's basically geared up to make a good return for the government and or the installers who often pay to be on their "accredited installer" list. The warm front grants were a similar set up - gummint allowed £xx per household, and funnily enough, every job the installers did cost almost exactly the amount of the grant!

What you might find is that the installation costs you exactly the same with or without the grant - the guys doing grant work just increase their price by the grant amount!

Best of luck in any case - and post back with how you get on.

Never heard of the MDF thing by the way - I'd have thought that sort of thing would come under the Waste Incineration Directive, which is pretty stringent on emissions etc - wouldn't imagine it would be the kind of set up you'd have for a domestic installation.

Cheers,

Andy