Planning for Flue / Chimney

Cakeguts

I am not entirely sure how you expect to burn wood and not make any smoke?

seven-day-weekend

Cakeguts wrote: »

I am not entirely sure how you expect to burn wood and not make any smoke?

If you are referring to me, then I don't expect it not to make smoke.

Both my stoves are compliant with the regulations. Therefore I am allowed to burn wood.

phoebe1989seb

martindow wrote: »

Are you sure it's free? That sounds extremely unlikely.

I understand planning permission fees are waived if you are in a conservation area or have an article 4 directive (both apply to us), the latter of which applies to the OP.

Running_On_Empty

I hope that the trend for these stoves soon runs its course. We have at least two near us and they stink.
I had a wood burner in a previous life for a quite a few years and the mess was not good. Carrying a tray of ash through the house is, by its nature, going to cause dust inside the house.
Why people call wood burning sustainable is beyond me as it will take decades for those trees to grow again.
We have a gas fire that looks so realistic that anyone not knowing it's gas mistake it for the wood burner. It was more expensive than a wood burner but so much more convenient and gives out a lot of heat and has real flames, not a red light bulb hidden underneath a rotating fan!

seven-day-weekend

But gas and electricity are not renewable resources. Wood from managed forests is.

Also burning wood is not dependent upon the will of Putin.

Running_On_Empty

Unless you walk to the managed wood, chop down the trees with your own hands using a saw or axe and then walk back home with the wood on your back, then there is still an environmental cost to the wood. That's apart from the loss of habitat for animals and flora.
I take the point about the gas and electricity but just wanted to point out that there is an environmental cost to all fuels.
Then there's the smoke that stoves emit and the smell... Which even if your stove meets current regs, as the ones in my area must do, then it is still inconsiderate to your neighbours.

franklee

Davesnave wrote: »

This is why some well-respected makers of multi-fuel stoves now make gas fired versions, identical to their 'real' counterparts. You'd be hard-pressed to tell them apart, without seeing how much dust they produce in a week!

I have a sound economic/environmental reason for having a wood stove, because wood comes to me free as part of what I do. If the village had gas, though, I'd be tempted to convert and just flog my logs.

I agree. I enjoy sitting in front of a fire a much as the next person but once I realised the health effects of the PM2.5 particles I wouldn't give wood burning house room given I'm in an urban area with mains gas. If you are off grid with room to store and season the logs properly then fair enough. People round here buy any old logs, wouldn't know if they are seasoned and have little room to store them long term which adds to the smoke nuisance. Given the close proximity of the houses I think it's a selfish thing to inflict on the neighbours and detrimental to their health as well.

Cakeguts

Running_On_Empty wrote: »

I hope that the trend for these stoves soon runs its course. We have at least two near us and they stink.
I had a wood burner in a previous life for a quite a few years and the mess was not good. Carrying a tray of ash through the house is, by its nature, going to cause dust inside the house.
Why people call wood burning sustainable is beyond me as it will take decades for those trees to grow again.
We have a gas fire that looks so realistic that anyone not knowing it's gas mistake it for the wood burner. It was more expensive than a wood burner but so much more convenient and gives out a lot of heat and has real flames, not a red light bulb hidden underneath a rotating fan!

As I understand it in the UK you can't get just one kind of wood to burn on a wood stove so you tend to get an assortment. I can tell you that unless the wood burns very hot on a wood burner is smokes. For very hot you need hard wood like oak. If you burn a lot of pine it is going to smoke and the smoke will smell like someone's garden fire. So more like burning garden rubbish than the pleasant wood smoke smell that you get in rural France.

The neighbours will be subjected to the smell of burning garden rubbish all through the winter.

You would need to be able to store about 10 cubic metres of wood for winter heating. You have to buy the wood either after it has been dried (more expensive) or 18 months before you want to use it.

You can put the ash on your vegetable patch.

martinthebandit

Clearly Cakeguts from your post you don’t understand it.

Cakeguts

martinthebandit wrote: »

Clearly Cakeguts from your post you don’t understand it.

OK it is only what I have learned from our woodburning stove.