Using portable wood burning stove in house this winter?

NickH85

Hi all.

Naturally, energy prices are top of the agenda for people at the moment, so I was hoping to get some opinions from people with knowledge of wood-burning stoves.

I live in Somerset, where wood fuel is readily available, so I was wondering  it would be conceivable/practical to set up a small wood burning stove indoors & have the flue pipe come out a window? Naturally, you'd need to block out the rest of the open window, & I'd imagine setting up something like a metal dog pen around it for safety, but what do people think of this idea?

Thanks

Spies

Sounds very unsafe. 

Sailbad

Are you serious? 

QrizB

On the plus side, there's a reasonable chance that you'll never need to worry about fuel prices again.

HertsLad

I am building a wood burning stove but I would never risk placing it indoors. Mine will go in the back garden to heat 30m of copper piping. Water will be pumped/circulated up to first floor level and into my bathroom to heat towel radiators. I will add a pressure release valve. I have quite a lot of wood and can obtain more. Nevertheless, firing it up and cleaning out the furnace will be quite a lot of effort so I only reckon on using it something like once ever three weeks.

gazapc

Where are you going to get your wood from?

It's not really readily available for free as you suggest. If you have specific contacts who can supply you, yes, but gone are the days of stacks of wood being left at the side of the road for you to take. 

Even then, if it is freshly cut how long will you season it before burning?

If you are paying for wood, ok, but it is not cheap to buy.

daveyjp

There are small woodburning stoves to be used in tents whuch have a chimney designed to fit through a hole in the tent roof so its not an unfeasible idea.

However, a tent in itself is inherently 'leaky' so using such a stove in a sealed room is probably not a good idea.

Sea_Shell

When Martin says "people will die" this winter, he was probably thinking of hypothermia....but sadly the problem will probably be more deaths from misadventure !! ☹️

Indoor BBQs, unswept open fires, meter tampering etc etc.

Fire service are going to be busy ☹️

macman

Sales of woodburners are soaring, so inevitably the price of wood will soar too, as demand increases. Fine if you can forage for it, otherwise maybe not.
Wood is a very inefficient fuel to burn anyway.

NickH85

Ok, thanks to those with useful replies. 👍 

Section62

Sea_Shell said:

When Martin says "people will die" this winter, he was probably thinking of hypothermia....but sadly the problem will probably be more deaths from misadventure !! ☹️

Indoor BBQs, unswept open fires, meter tampering etc etc.

Fire service are going to be busy ☹️

Yup, and the more folks in the media talk about staring at a 'pit of doom', the more likely it is some people will take extreme (and dangerous) steps to avoid paying for gas and electricity.

It doesn't matter how expensive mains gas and electricity get - they will still be cheaper than death by CO or fire.