Woodburners do you agree with this?

SG27

michaelgordon wrote: »

i was working this out earlier to see if i have benefited from installing the stove. i had a little irish lottery win so my actual cost of installation was £250 (£1450 total) but i was looking at getting it before the win i have spent around £245 on logs, smokeless & heat logs and prob another £40 ontop for kindling which i will buy as and when.

You can make your own kindling from the logs you already have. Just chop it down the grain with a small axe. There are videos on YouTube showing exactly how. I never buy kindling

Towser

Do you have to write it so fr!gging big?

Sorry it's from the Daily Mail.

'churnalism'

I agree

woodburners are far more costly to run that mains gas appliances,

I agree

Is this trolling?

Ehh?

3m cube of unseasoned logs for £50?? Tell me where to send the cheque!?

Exactly

Towser

kindling

There is always a pallet going for free but it takes work to reduce it down to kindling.

Ectophile

My favourite web site for comparing energy costs is the Nottingham Energy Partnership http://www.nottenergy.com/energy_cost_comparison/

According to them, seasoned firewood is about the same price as gas per kWh at the moment.

I'm sure you can buy unseasoned wood cheaper, but if you want it really cheap, it's going to be cordwood logs, delivered by the truckload, and you're going to have to chop them, stack them, then leave for a couple of years until they are seasoned.

I do scrounge some of my own firewood for free, but it's a lot of work compared with paying someone to deliver me a pick-up truck full of seasoned logs.

Towser

Yes firewood is a lot of hard work but it is tax free.

How do you get hold of your free wood?

michaelgordon

SG27 wrote: »

You can make your own kindling from the logs you already have. Just chop it down the grain with a small axe. There are videos on YouTube showing exactly how. I never buy kindling

Never thought about doing that, thanks ill have a look

Greenfires

If the poster had mentioned the information was from the Daily Fail, we could have saved ourselves the bother of reading it. Burning wood probably gives us all cancer, prevents us all getting cancer, and encourages illegal immigrants who come here and take all our jobs/women/benefits too!!

I'm a big supporter of wood burning over fossil fuels, as most of the regulars here will have gathered. However, I've always advised anyone who has ever asked, that heating with mains gas will almost always be the cheaper option if it's available. And it doesn't matter what my views on the environment are - that's just the fact of the matter.

redpete

Towser wrote: »

You can also buy a log maker for around £20 that turns your household paper waste into denser logs for your stove, with a burn time of as long as an hour.

OR...

You can also buy a log maker for around £20 that needs a lot of effort and mess that turns some of your paper waste into loose blocks of papier mache that take an age to dry enough to burn with a burn time of much less than an hour with poor heat output and leave a pile of loose ash.

alleycat`

I assume this is some sort of giant advert for selling stoves.

The numbers are utter cobblers.

If they person who wrote it suggested on arbtalk that they should be selling 3 Cube for £50 they'd probably get shot.

Towser

Can you give me an appx price for this please:

FIREWOOD - LOGS - APROX 200 CUBIC METRES MIXED CORDWOOD

tree surgeons mixed timber , mostly softwood and some hardwood