Just a few.
I use a magnet with a quick release handle.
Carrier bags are pretty strong 30kg in there!
About a weeks worth.
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I use a magnet with a quick release handle.
Carrier bags are pretty strong 30kg in there!
About a weeks worth.
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On one of the burners I replaced the grate with a solid sheet of steel. I never burn coal on that one so dont need the grate, and cleaning out is real simple with a flat sheet base - just slide a shovel in under all the nails occasionally.
I've never bothered with that "leave a bit of ash" thing. I think that kind of thing is for people who want to plan out a fire, rather than just chuck in wood and get warm. 5 mins after lighting there's ash in the bottom anyway!
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i leave the ash until its falls out the door when i open it!
Yeah, my daughter has no gas in her village. She used to heat solely with wood, two stoves 12kw and 4kw. She got through tons. Now she has an air source heat pump for heat and hot water. Stoves now just supplement this.
When I move I am going to build my own woodburner - needs to be long enough to take the 1.2m lengths of pallet wood without cutting them.
Perhaps something like this but nicer - like a loco boiler but horizontal - made from some old cast iron pipeline or similar - or maybe a compressor tank - a big one.
Perhaps something like this but nicer - like a loco boiler but horizontal - made from some old cast iron pipeline or similar - or maybe a compressor tank - a big one.
I wouldnt like to see her leccy bill
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Weve used about 7m3 of wood this winter, all seasoned logs from a friend who does tree surgery etc, I collect it by the pick up load, cut and split my self, then stack it, under cover. Most stands two years, though weve been burning mostly ash for the last few years. Ours is a stanley lismore with a back boiler, so when heating the house it burns a fair bit, but we set it brikettes too when we light it, then fuel with wood.
I have a steel plate over my grid too. Wood just needs air from the top. It burns too quick with air from underneath too. Only coal and smokeless needs a grid.
Her leccy bills are fine. The KW quoted are her wood stoves. The air source heat pump is super efficient, it's supplemented with solar panels. Apparently it uses 1kw of electricity to produce 4kw of heat!
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I can add more to that one
never burn blue pallets
never burn mdf as stated above
never burn osb board
becareful of hard board
interesting subject here
you can burn pellets and wood shavings but you can also burn wood shavings and sawdust
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but say if you was getting it delivered would you buy from your heap stacked or would you want a pack stacked ibc
not forgetting its your place once its delivered to restack it or would you just cover over a topped ibc container of wood
sorry to the op but as you may see theres more to just having a wood stove
its also down to costs and also down to whats in local areas
I disagree with the blue pallets bit they aren't that bad. What you have to avoid with pallets are the pressed wood blocks. They stink and the binder used in them is very nasty I only burn the solid wood blocks.
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i use the under air to get the fire going good fast its ok using the top air but faster to use underneath when your getting the wood coals hot in the first place
If I was buying I would want it tightly packed!!!!.
I don't cover my wood when seasoning. It's in a relatively sheltered spot. I take it in to my log shed after a dry couple of weeks, August/September time then work from the shed through the winter. I tried covering it but find it dries out quicker if left uncovered with the sun on it..
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I'll add my thoughts.
What is the cost of good firewood in the U.K.?
Here it's not cheap I pay £200 for three meters cube of oak / chestnut.
Pellet burners are all the rage over here, but not my cup of tea.
We have a Rayburn, an Invicta wood burner, best wood burner I've ever owned, and a cheap mild steel wood burner too, yes, when it's cold we have three fires going in three chimneys.
Steel welded burners heat up quick, but cool down quick, cast iron heats up slowly, keeps the heat and cools down slowly, best for keeping in over night, depends how you run them, and the wood you burn.
These are the only heating in our house, and it's pretty huge.
What is the cost of good firewood in the U.K.?
Here it's not cheap I pay £200 for three meters cube of oak / chestnut.
Pellet burners are all the rage over here, but not my cup of tea.
We have a Rayburn, an Invicta wood burner, best wood burner I've ever owned, and a cheap mild steel wood burner too, yes, when it's cold we have three fires going in three chimneys.
Steel welded burners heat up quick, but cool down quick, cast iron heats up slowly, keeps the heat and cools down slowly, best for keeping in over night, depends how you run them, and the wood you burn.
These are the only heating in our house, and it's pretty huge.
Oil is much cheaper than buying wood.
Get an oil fired Rayburn running the rads.
Far less work as well.
My ideal setup would be an oil Rayburn supplemented by a big woodburner heating a heat store.
Buying wood is a no no.
