Burning Issue

[ajlelectronics]

Not a bad idea thanks, not much has come out as it has a good seal on the door, do you guys just leave the vents open for the most part

You open the front vents and airwash control when establishing the fire, then close the vents once properly lit. Control the heat output with the top control, but if you turn it down too far, it will blacken the glass due to no airwash.

 

[tommy_lad]

Just between you and me, I have a partial remedy. I have a Nest thermostat and have set the schedule to return to normal every hour. That way, the maximum extra run time is 59 minutes. I also check periodically via the app and reset if need be. She complains about it but I have pointed out that it is all modern automatic and outside my control. The system reads the inside temperature, the outside temperature and time, then makes its own decisions.

Just ordered one!

 

[Barking Mat]

Is it your primary form of heating ?

Expect to consume 6m3 of mixed hard / soft wood per winter.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

We have a 6kw Morso in the extension. Unless its really cold a lighting with some decent kindling then 6 logs does us for the night. We have a local log supplier who does some really well seasoned hard and softwood mix. When I had the pickup I got him to forklift a builders bag full in and I unloaded it by hand into the wood store, but with the disco I just get the smaller 56 kilo type bags, a builders bag lasted us a burning season

 

[Wightsparks]

Cripes, we have a water jacketed 23kw burner - 17 to water 6 to the room, heats the house. I just got 3m3 delivered of seasoned hardwood, last a month if it's not too cold ! Tend to burn smokeless as well as you can't throw wood in fast enough when it gets cold. Our log supplier likes it as we take 18" long logs easily so less chopping for him.

 

[Barking Mat]

We have a Rayburn, and two wood burning stoves and get through a lot of wood over winter.

It's also really important to sweep your chimney regularly, not just once a year.

But the real trick is a wood burner which shuts down and is fully contollable.

More complicated than it sounds.

 

[bricol]

You should be grateful. My 'indoors believes that 24 is tolerable, 26 comfortable. I had to tell her to put a sweatshirt on earlier, she was walking about in a tee shirt complaining of being cold. Her winter heating regime, left to her own devices is to whack the thermostat up to 26, set all TRVs to max and then when it is too hot, open the doors and windows.

I jest not.

I think its a ladies only class at school in how to heat and control the temperature in a house

 

[bricol]

Ordered a tonne of smokeless fuel the other day . . . today I was having a slight moment of doubt as to where exactly I was going to put it.

I have Morso Squirrel, mainly because my grandparents had one 40 yrs ago, and have mainly burnt wood - but my source of free wood has dried up, and I'm running low on stocks - so measuring up for the solid fuel inserts this evening, ready to make some tomorrow.

 

[fizzy]

We have a Rayburn, and two wood burning stoves and get through a lot of wood over winter.

It's also really important to sweep your chimney regularly, not just once a year.

But the real trick is a wood burner which shuts down and is fully contollable.

More complicated than it sounds.

When I lived in the Brecon Beacons we had a Rayburn one end of the house feeding 7 rads and a huge woodburner.
We would go through 3 or 4 dumpy bags per week. Considering people charge £50 or £60 a bag it would have cost us a fortune.
I bought 44 tons of wood from the forestry people - half hardwood and half soft.
I burnt the lot in 1 winter

 

[JMS1972]

I think its a ladies only class at school in how to heat and control the temperature in a house

It's actually a biological difference between men and women. Men generally have a higher muscle mass and muscle burns energy which keeps men warmer....

 

[My Old Landy]

It's actually a biological difference between men and women. Men generally have a higher muscle mass and muscle burns energy which keeps men warmer....

I have a higher fat mass which tends to work the same way......

 

[SierraV6]

You should be grateful. My 'indoors believes that 24 is tolerable, 26 comfortable. I had to tell her to put a sweatshirt on earlier, she was walking about in a tee shirt complaining of being cold. Her winter heating regime, left to her own devices is to whack the thermostat up to 26, set all TRVs to max and then when it is too hot, open the doors and windows.

I jest not.

On a positive note it’s unlikely that your house will suffer with damp!

 

[8ob]

Mrs has made/ forced me to put our log burner on for the first time in the new gaff, never had one before, my eyeballs are on fire...

How many tons per year should I expect to be putting through this thing, 5kw morso, considering the Mrs is cold below 20°c...

Average output of seasoned hardwood logs is about 1750 kwh per ton, modern stoves run at around 75% efficiency so you should get about 250/260 hours out of a ton of wood on a 5kw stove, a ton of wood is not to be confused with what the log boys deliver which is normally a cubic meter.

Bob

 

[Wozzaaah]

sorry but if you think its a joke i dont

ive seen enough people come out of fume filled places either dead or suffering badly

eyes are one of the symtons of carbon monoxide poisoning

its no joke in my eyes

Part of the BC requirement of having one installed is to have a CO alarm.

 

[tommy_lad]

Part of the BC requirement of having one installed is to have a CO alarm.

Even if it wasn't I'd have one anyway

 

[Bobupndown]

Cripes, we have a water jacketed 23kw burner - 17 to water 6 to the room, heats the house. I just got 3m3 delivered of seasoned hardwood, last a month if it's not too cold ! Tend to burn smokeless as well as you can't throw wood in fast enough when it gets cold. Our log supplier likes it as we take 18" long logs easily so less chopping for him.

Considered installing a back boiler wood burner to heat water when we built our new house but we're talked out of it, need a huge output fire which would consume a mountain of wood and be too big heat output wise for the snug we have it in. Happy with what we went for in the end.

 

[tommy_lad]

Average output of seasoned hardwood logs is about 1750 kwh per ton, modern stoves run at around 75% efficiency so you should get about 250/260 hours out of a ton of wood on a 5kw stove, a ton of wood is not to be confused with what the log boys deliver which is normally a cubic meter.

Bob

I've a log shed built by the previous owner that will take around 4 cube, I am planning on making another store at the bottom of the garden for another 6

 

[SierraV6]

Out of interest, and apologies to venture slightly OT, what are people’s thoughts regarding the future of wood burners? Personally I think some kind of legislation will be introduced limiting or even prohibiting their use on environmental grounds. Alternatively they may be required to be fitted with some kind of device to reduce emissions (I presume such technology exists?).

Sorry to sound like a killjoy that’s not my intention, I do actually like wood burners and I have a professional interest in their future.

 

[tommy_lad]

Out of interest, and apologies to venture slightly OT, what are people’s thoughts regarding the future of wood burners? Personally I think some kind of legislation will be introduced limiting or even prohibiting their use on environmental grounds. Alternatively they may be required to be fitted with some kind of device to reduce emissions (I presume such technology exists?).

Sorry to sound like a killjoy that’s not my intention, I do actually like wood burners and I have a professional interest in their future.

I think your right with the legislation, more people in years to come, more log burners etc. Especially in built up areas. I'd like to think that they won't be prohibited as maybe we are heading for power supply issues due to an large increase in demand in the future, and it's a way of keeping keeping the house warm, and making toast.

 

[500e]

You should be grateful. My 'indoors believes that 24 is tolerable, 26 comfortable. I had to tell her to put a sweatshirt on earlier, she was walking about in a tee shirt complaining of being cold. Her winter heating regime, left to her own devices is to whack the thermostat up to 26, set all TRVs to max and then when it is too hot, open the doors and windows.

I jest not.

I have one of those also & light switches only work one way, ON