Future Firewood Demand Optimism?

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, Billhook said:

But have you fitted a wood burning stove on board???!

Supposedly Norwegian Law says we should 🤣

[difflock]

4 hours ago, woody paul said:

They have been off a week that's all, in 1987 we had no power for 3 weeks managed with rayburn and gas cooker and gas lights. 

A couple of months ago are power went out so got gas lamp out of shed must be 5 years it was last used lite first time. 

Made me laugh on the news yesterday some women was complaining about no electric fridge empty no heating and nothing to cook on camera man paned around kitchen at standing in the corner was a gas range cooker.??. 

Except if she is relying on the auto ignition? Or perhaps do some gas stoves cut off the gas if there is a power cut(safety related)

Edited December 6, 2021 by difflock

[Billhook]

We seem to be enjoying the lull before the big storm here in the East Midlands.  Like they say in the best Westerns.

"Sure is quiet ain't it?"    "Yeah, too quiet"  then an arrow comes out of nowhere and pins his hat to a tree!

[neiln]

My source is the Lars mitting book, Norwegian wood.

[sime42]

Good book that.

[trigger_andy]

My source is the Lars mitting book, Norwegian wood.

I have the same book. I don’t recall reading that?

Could you post a pic of that up?

When I bought my house in Norway there was only electric heaters in the house. Same as many people I know.

Most new houses are so well insulated that it’s next to impossible to run a stove and keep the windows closed. The new builds next to the house I sold, detached 3 story dwellings, do not have stoves fitted as standard.

[maybelateron]

2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

I have the same book. I don’t recall reading that?

Could you post a pic of that up?

I have the book too. I remember quite clearly reading the bit about it being a legal requirement to have another source of heating in case of power failure. I can't recall if it specified what type of alternative heating. I have just picked the book off the shelf for a quick flick through, but without starting at the beginning and reading each page it might take me a while to find the relevant section.

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, maybelateron said:

I have the book too. I remember quite clearly reading the bit about it being a legal requirement to have another source of heating in case of power failure. I can't recall if it specified what type of alternative heating. I have just picked the book off the shelf for a quick flick through, but without starting at the beginning and reading each page it might take me a while to find the relevant section.

Maybe the two other guys who live in Norway could add input here as well. From having lived in Norway and have mates who have built houses in Norway within the last 5 years I can assure you they did not need an alternative heating source. 
 

The house I rented in Norway just had electric heating. The house I bought in Norway just had electric heating. 
 

Im gonna take a whimsical books comment  with a big full of salt because it sure does not tally up with what I’ve actually seen and lived. I don’t remember reading that passage myself and I’m sure it would have stood out if I had. 
 

Perhaps it’s a kommuner thing? Parts of Norway that get severe weather might have local legislation? It certainly is not in Rogaland where I lived. 

[maybelateron]

Found it. Page 25 in the hardback copy, half way down. Only reason I have not put up a pic is I assume copyright etc says I should not. Instead I will quote verbatim: "For this reason every house in Norway exceeding a certain size is obliged by law to have an alternative source of heating, which in practice means a woodstove. The requirement comes not, as one might think, from the Building Standards Department, but from the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning ..."

[trigger_andy]

Found it. Page 25 in the hardback copy, half way down. Only reason I have not put up a pic is I assume copyright etc says I should not. Instead I will quote verbatim: "For this reason every house in Norway exceeding a certain size is obliged by law to have an alternative source of heating, which in practice means a woodstove. The requirement comes not, as one might think, from the Building Standards Department, but from the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning ..."

Interesting. I’m on an Norwegian Oil and Gas Platform and just asked two different Norgies. Both looked at me like I was crazy. One says it might have been a law at some point in the past but not now. I’ll ask some others and see what they say.