THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

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We shall have another Clearview stove installed in our new house if we are lucky enough to get there as they have an open fireplace and I cannot imagine life without one. The art is in making sure you only burn properly seasoned wood, the clearview stoves have a double burn facility and other than small amounts of smoke when we first light up from the paper log we use as a fire lighter there is no smoke whatsoever coming from the chimney when the stove is up to heat. Storing your wood supply properly is crucial and making sure that the wood is properly dried and keeping it until it IS mean a cleaner warmth all round. Even the wood ash (of which there isn't much after a whole evenings fire) goes into the compost heap and enriches the soil here and on the allotment, I don't waste even that.

fuddle

I don't quite understand how stoves have attracted a middle class label. It's a way of life in my neck of the woods and my neck of the woods is amongst the poorest in the country... prettiest but poorest.

It's very difficult to be wasteful with fuel that has to be sourced, piled, paid for in advance and physically deal with either bringing the messy coal or the insect laden wood into the home. There's no relaxing and shutting off from the fuel source. It's a job and because of all it takes to maintain the heat source, I think stove users are mindful and appreciative of their source and therefore more efficient in what they burn, when and for how long.

It's not fashionable to run a stove, it's dirty and it's a chore. Surely the middle class don't want that label? I must be missing something...

Karmacat

Fuddle, in all honesty, it's people who have au pairs or cleaners etc, thats why they're calling it fashionable. And I bet they get their wood delivered in 5kg bags, insect free!

southantrim3

In my humble opinion - I'm thinking that the government doesn't want us to have our own independent source of heat that we alone can control rather than them. I reckon the ideal is that everyone is on clean piped gas which can be switched on and off at their discretion (when it comes to it...) rather than ours.

Sorry - I'm also a cynic.

ivyleaf

We can't all have woodburners anyway - we'd soon end up with a nationwide shortage of fuel, surely?

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

We can't all have woodburners anyway - we'd soon end up with a nationwide shortage of fuel, surely?

Yup. The population of Elizabethan England was a fraction of the current population and they were running out of firewood then.

A pal burns wood on his fire. He has 70 acres of forest, tho!

mardatha

Hit the nail on the head there ivy! Because that's where it was going, and what happens next is usually a price hike and/or tax on whatever everybody needs.. Maybe they found this one too hard to tax and decided to ban it instead.

moneyistooshorttomention

For once - I'm taking what the Government says exactly at face value - ie that woodburners do pollute - end of....

Cigarettes do, e-vaping does, standard type cars do, coal fires do - obviously anything emitting fumes into our atmosphere is going to pollute it.

Witless

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

For once - I'm taking what the Government says exactly at face value - ie that woodburners do pollute - end of....

Cigarettes do, e-vaping does, standard type cars do, coal fires do - obviously anything emitting fumes into our atmosphere is going to pollute it.

Yeah, I reckon we should ban bacon too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44219089

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People breathing, plants transpiring, animals eating grass and digesting it produce flatulence, all living things pollute so let's get rid of life on earth and the problem will just go away won't it?