Imported kiln dry logs ?

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There's a few new builds going up round here with 'fake' stacks and chimneys fitted....

 

You can't even bring them into use, as there's usually part of a room under that brickwork...

 

Bizarre why they did it....

 

Maybe to give plain, featureless matchbox house the look of a 'traditional house' complete with chimney???

[SbTVF]

They're not kiln dried but a friend I met at uni who is visiting his home country of Poland just posted this picture!

That's a lot of timber! Wonder where it's all off to!?

 

 

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Shouldn't it be 'not kiln dried - yet'...???

[MonsterMonster]

Agreed. Buying firewood is a luxury, like having your garden landscaped.

Another thread maybe, buts its a total false economy to tell customers that installing a stove will save them money on their heating. ( unless the fuel is free )

It's a craze that I hope continues...only for personal gain

To put it into perspective to heat our house with bought in processed dry wood would cost about £1,500 to £2,000. The equivalent oil would have been under £500 if you got your timing right in summer. It's only a matter of time when the result of the wood burner boom of a few years back is that people realise they cost them more money burning wood sorry to say.

 

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[Woodworks]

To put it into perspective to heat our house with bought in processed dry wood would cost about £1,500 to £2,000. The equivalent oil would have been under £500 if you got your timing right in summer. It's only a matter of time when the result of the wood burner boom of a few years back is that people realise they cost them more money burning wood sorry to say.

 

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How do those numbers work?

 

Done some quick sums and our logs work out at £0.07 per kWh before appliance inefficiencies and we are not cheap. Is oil as low as £0.02 per kWh?

[gdh]

To put it into perspective to heat our house with bought in processed dry wood would cost about £1,500 to £2,000. The equivalent oil would have been under £500 if you got your timing right in summer. It's only a matter of time when the result of the wood burner boom of a few years back is that people realise they cost them more money burning wood sorry to say.

 

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A lot of that is because oil went down in price while wood is creeping up but steadily. It will also depend on how much you're paying for firewood which is the key thing.

 

If you really wanted to use a wood fuel source you'd be better off with woodchip since it's slightly cheaper to produce and burns much more efficiently.

[gdh]

Some quick figures...

Google puts the costs at 7p a kwh for wood (sounds expensive to me but probably correct as an average) , 3.5 for chip (sounds cheap, I expect thats skewed by commercial users and I would charge 5p to domestic users) and oil at 4p.

 

That's from April.

 

Our biggest 5cube load of less than 20% moisture hardwood is just over £60 a cube delivered if someone knows the figures to work that out. I've confused myself trying already

[william petts]

I'm thinking of installing a log burner in our house, all hot water etc is from gas, but with a log burner there would be no need to have any of the radiators on as the heat from the fire would soon warm up the house, it's not very big, so gas would only need to be used for hot water for taps, and bath. It's all hypothetical talking but I reckon wood would be cheaper,

[biggarlogs]

In my house (4 bed farmhouse)the previous occupiers bur ed 500 litres of oil a month.I burn 500 litres a year now but burn 3 cubic metres a month of wood .if wood cost me £60 a cube that would be 180.now oil at 45present a litre would be £225 so how does that stack up?.of course I get my logs for free so I am lsughing:thumbup:

[SbTVF]

Chip for our chip boiler costs about 2p per kWh we reckon if we chip it ourselves. But that's only cos we bought the chipper for £800 initially. Also includes a sharpen of the irons at £35 a time. So it won't last if we put 100t a year through it.

 

Even buying it in its costing us about 4p per kWh.

 

If you've got an efficient log burner and buy in big enough bulk I don't see why you couldn't save money but most people aren't interested in that.

 

I'd say 90% of customers just have it for effect and the enjoyment of it. It's not a money saver.

 

 

 

 

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