Log burner owners - HELP PLEASE!

welshmoneylover

I tend to burn smokeless coal and definitely noticed a drop in the smoke upon lighting, which to me seems to be your neighbour’s beef.
My next door neighbour burns wood and his stack is much more smokier than mine.
HTH, then tell your very jealous neighbour to buy her own multi fuel burner !!!128513;

Robisere

I grew up in the bottom of a valley which contained a Pit village. When entering the village from any of the hill roads, there was a pall of coal smoke over all the houses, from all the open fires. OP, your neighbour would have had something to complain about if they had lived there at that time, believe me! It is many years since I left, but I do return occasionally. Looking down from the road as I approach, the valley is clear of smoke and the inhabitants have clean air to breathe.

My dd has a wood burner in her Lincolnshire village cottage, but she has only one close neighbour, as her cottage extends into farmland. In my village a few miles from dd's, one chap has a wood burner and he decided to contact a Pallet company, taking all their old used pallets. He was forced to stop this practice afte complaints by surrounding neighbours on the street. He now has to buy and burn the correct, approved logs.

savers_united

If you want to let things calm down a bit then I would burn heatlogs for the next couple of months, Hotties are pretty good, also rate the Verdos when you can get them from Home Bargains. Pound for pound if your buying in wood they work out better value, less than 10% moisture means they burn clean, little to no smoke or smell. Chuck out more heat and light much easier as they have less moisture, can be stored indoors or in an outdoor shed, just dont leave them exposed to the elements, they will expand. If you get used to them you can start mixing with hardwood and smoke should be drastically reduced and your enjoyment increased. Good luck

sevenhills

Robisere wrote: »

I grew up in the bottom of a valley which contained a Pit village. When entering the village from any of the hill roads, there was a pall of coal smoke over all the houses, from all the open fires.

When I visited the Lake District, the effect of the hills surrounding the water, the air was polluted and smokey by just a few log burners.

km1423

CashStrapped wrote: »

I too am curious how smokeless zones apply to wood burners. Most areas are smokeless zones, but wood burners/multifuel burners seem not to apply.

If you have a DEFRA approved appliance, then you are able to burn wood or smokeless coal in a "smoke control zone".

Wood only burners that give off black smoke from the chimney are not burning the fuel efficiently.

As most people have a stove installed in the spring/summer to use in the colder months, the practice of achieving a "clean burn", usually with wood has yet not been successfully achieved. They are initially inexperienced.

Wood smoke with optimum burn will be white initially/barely there.

Savers United: You are bang on there. A good tip for new stove users.

House_Martin

r2015 wrote: »

One of my neighbours has a log burner and it stinks out the whole street.


They should be banned, what happened to smokeless zones?


When I was a teenager I lived in a smokeless zone and my parents had to buy smokeless coal and anthracite as they had central heating from an enclosed coal fire.


Never was the smell as bad from 100's of smokeless fires as the one wood burner of my neighbour.

I live in a bungalow next to a wood , with a back gate directly into it .It has lots of old fallen trees all over. It would seem ideal for installing a wood burner but reading about the publicity with neighbours "smoke watching " I ve completely given up on the idea
.I don`t intend falling out with any of my neighbours 8 of which posted me a welcome card to the Crescent.
They re more trouble than they are worth and if you have to pay out for kiln dried 2 or 3 year old wood then they will be much more expensive than just turning on the clean gas central heating.