Wood Stove forum?

The_Economist

firefitter wrote: »

Burning pine pallets is BAD for your flue unless you know how to run a stove well. Its easy to learn though.

:eek::eek::eek: I think we need educating. Can you elaborate.

WilliamLaurence

I bought one of these from ChimneyHeaters.com . I installed and it works fine. Heats my 2000 square foot house. I have the pump connected to a UPS but I am not sure how long the pump will run if the electric goes out. I had it installed all winter and did not have to turn on my Electric heat once which saved me about 200 euro a month here in Romania.

The Electric is not stable here so I had to rush to take out the fire a couple of times because the water pump had stopped and the pressure valves were going off. The UPS will solve that but I don't know how long a UPS will keep my central pump going. I will attach a pic of what chimney heaters are in case you are not familiar with them. The pump is a Grundfos and has three speeds.

ring2012

I bought a wood burning stove from astove.co.uk last winter, it worked well. Though it burned wood, it didn't cost much and offered much heat to the room. In fact, more and more people start to use electric stoves or gas stoves nowadays. The fuels electric and gas are clean and economical than woods, so the trend is fewer and fewer people will use wood burning stoves. I am now planning to buy a gas stove for my camping....

savemoney

What they dont tell you I suspect in many stove retailers is that there is a finite source of wood, some of it is now imported as we dont have enough wood to supply all the stoves. The price like all fuels is steadily increasing too which is probably made worse by increase in stove being purchased.

vuvuzela

Seems a bit desperate if they have to spam here. maybe sales aren't going too well for the 2 companies that have promoted themselves ?

rich246

savemoney wrote: »

What they dont tell you I suspect in many stove retailers is that there is a finite source of wood, some of it is now imported as we dont have enough wood to supply all the stoves. The price like all fuels is steadily increasing too which is probably made worse by increase in stove being purchased.

That's not strictly true - wood grows on trees

We installed a wood burner three years ago and have been very pleased with it.

There were a few reasons for the install.

1. Secondary backup heating if the gas boiler broke or we had a power cut due to snow or strike.
2. Reduction in heating bills
3. Very warm glowing feeling even in the coldest of winters - offset perhaps with the arrival of a baby some 9 months later - oops!

We have access to plenty of logs and trees to cut down so this isn't a problem. What may become tiresome may be cutting down the trees into usable logs.

Now that local councils have realised the advantages of converting their oil fired boilers into wood burners may push up the prices of wood pellets.

Nevertheless, a second source of heating is a major bonus when you consider the reliability of power generation over the next decade may be somewhat problematic. When the electricity is cut, the central heating shuts down!

toomsmith

i would like to discuss about wood burning stove and multi fuel stove, which one is easily affordable.

Alycidon

savemoney wrote: »

What they dont tell you I suspect in many stove retailers is that there is a finite source of wood, some of it is now imported as we dont have enough wood to supply all the stoves. The price like all fuels is steadily increasing too which is probably made worse by increase in stove being purchased.

We have more woodland now than at any time since the Armarda. the struggle is to get it back under active forestry management. This follows some very tax advantageous planting schemes in the 1970s.

Price of wood is increasing agreed, this is driven by the govt giving large users ROCs ( Renewable Obligation Certs) which can be traded as a subsidy to switch to renewable energy, typically woodchip. As a result the Forestry Comission and Tilhill who auction their timber are finding prices paid rising. This means that the cost of cordwood to firewood merchants is rising rapidly, typically by 10% a year. Yes you can buy some logs from Arb companies, quality is variable, most are far to wet to burn efficiently and supply is very limited as these companies do not have under cover storage facilities that the processed product requires for a year or so before sale.

I sell stoves, and as a spin off firewood.

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Alycidon

toomsmith wrote: »

i would like to discuss about wood burning stove and multi fuel stove, which one is easily affordable.

Both, one burns only wood, the other burns wood and some types of solid fuel.

Like most things in life you get what you pay for, a £300 chinese made stove has a typical life of between 3 and 5 years. A top quality stove from Morso will last 40 years if looked after but will cost £1000.

The former will cost you about £80 a year, ( cost divided by life), the latter £25. So whats the best buy?, NOT the cheapest.

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Alycidon

tiff wrote: »

I would like to discuss all aspects of woodburning, ie where to get firewood, coal etc. Dont have a woodburner but just opened up our fireplace and never had one before. Think it should be in the lpg forum as suggested above with a slight name change.

LPG is a VERY expensive form of heating, have a look at the Nottingham Energy Partnership fuel costs comparison chart on line, it gives side by side cost per KW of all the main fuels and CO2 emissions per fuel as well.

I burn wood pellets at home, its like buying oil at about 40p per litre. Just inconvenient to keep refilling the boiler.

I installed a stove into our lounge 18 months ago, this has cut our wood pellet use by about 40%, thats £800, to which needs deducting about £300 for firewood used if I was buying it from a dealer such as myself. So I have a saving of about £500 per year. Against an older inefficient appliance be it gas or an older stove or a poorly designed stove then significant cost savings are possible when installing a modern high efficiency wood burning or multi fuel stove.

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