Free wood?

Its installed, a few pics

Wood


Coal

Pleased with it, any other comments?

Only asking cos I'm thinking of having one installed.

Yeah its great, wood is so cheap when compared with gas.

Its amazing how hot they are compared with gas fires, my mum/dad have a 4.5kw gas fire and it puts no where near as much heat into the room as the 5kw burner.

Wood is easy to light but coal seems to need more heat and air to get going but burns for longer

Originally Posted by grimey121uk

I now have an excuse to go out and buy a chainsaw

Is it legal to chop up a fallen tree in a Forrest?

No, somebody owns the forest, even if it looks 'wild' it will be owned by someone. I happen to know of a bit of woodland with a lovely fallen tree, looks abandoned, but the owner is keeping it that way as part of a fence.

Well the house is coming along now and we should be moving in about a months time

I was speaking to one of the tradespeople and he was saying that burning a bag of coal every so often will help to prevent the build up of creosote in the chimney compared with just burning wood, any idea if this is true?

I would also appreciate any other advice/information on getting the chimney swept/cleaned..

regarding coal, I realised the coal that the mrs purchased for me was ecoal, other than the smoke is there any difference between coal and ecoal?

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by grimey121uk

I was speaking to one of the tradespeople and he was saying that burning a bag of coal every so often will help to prevent the build up of creosote in the chimney compared with just burning wood, any idea if this is true?

My sisters got a wood burner and I'm pretty sure that burning just wood does cause a build up of creosote, so not a bad idea to do this.

Ask Luckypants he's got a wood burner, but burns coal in his as well.

Quality of the wood, how dry it is and type of wood will also affect on what residue is deposited in the chimney

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by grimey121uk

Well the house is coming along now and we should be moving in about a months time

I was speaking to one of the tradespeople and he was saying that burning a bag of coal every so often will help to prevent the build up of creosote in the chimney compared with just burning wood, any idea if this is true?

I would also appreciate any other advice/information on getting the chimney swept/cleaned..

regarding coal, I realised the coal that the mrs purchased for me was ecoal, other than the smoke is there any difference between coal and ecoal?

As long as you had the chimney properly lined you shouldn't have to many problems. The whole point of a wood burner is that most of the heat stays in the room rather than going up the chimney as it does with an open fire, but this means the gases going up the flu are cooler and more likely not to carry the deposits out the top. You can burn offcuts from a wood yard but only if you don't mind feeding the fire every 10 minutes! Timber is far to dry and just disappears. Try and buy your logs as big as possible, they are cheaper and easier to store that way and you can split/cut them to size as and when you need them. Obviously having somewhere dry and secure to keep it helps to....

[yorkie_chris]

The longer you can leave them the better. Just need a lean-to type thing out of the weather.
They dry much faster when split.

You need a chainsaw


I'm not sure about the whole creosote thing. We've never worried about it and not had a problem yet. Then again the POS stove we have, low stack temperature is not a concern!

i assume this fire is for evenings and weekends(1 ton) and not your main source of heat,but like they say there isn't any cheap form of heat unless some one gives you the wood free and delivered,but if you are going to burn wood for say8 to 12hours a day for 6 months of the year then you are going to use up to 6 tons of wood (hard wood or double that if you use silver birch)a year and if you are going to cut and collect your own wood then you want at least a 60cc husqvarna plus safety gear etc so thats up to a grand,or you could buy a cheap saw from screwfix or argos and replace it every 18 months and not use any safety gear and wait till you cut something off,or you could buy it all in and cut up ready to use,and did some one say 70 to a 100 pounds a ton x6 thats about what i spend on oil to heat and supply hot water,

[JamesMio]

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