Future Firewood Demand Optimism?

[topchippyles]

19 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

 

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.

 

Admit it you are wrong yet again. 🙃🤭

[trigger_andy]

6 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Admit it you are wrong yet again. 🙃🤭

Unlike you Leslie I’ll freely admit it when I’m wrong. In this instance I don’t believe I am.

 

Just spoke with another older Norwegian and he said when he built his house in 1990 it was was this law was being phased out. He built his house (250sq/m) just after the date change and had issues not putting a stove in because not everyone was up to date. Just like Lars Mitting it seems. 
 

I knew it was not law anyway since I’ve been involved with two house builds in Norway and neither needed a Stove installed. 

[Billhook]

30 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Unlike you Leslie I’ll freely admit it when I’m wrong. In this instance I don’t believe I am.

 

Just spoke with another older Norwegian and he said when he built his house in 1990 it was was this law was being phased out. He built his house (250sq/m) just after the date change and had issues not putting a stove in because not everyone was up to date. Just like Lars Mitting it seems. 
 

I knew it was not law anyway since I’ve been involved with two house builds in Norway and neither needed a Stove installed. 

I think that we should all push for it to be law in the UK!

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Billhook said:

I think that we should all push for it to be law in the UK!

Cant argue with that! 

[Conner]

I have been following this thread. Last week we lost out electricity for 3 days due to the storm. We were ok as the stove heated the house and we also have a caravan with cooker etc. Our neighbours are older people in council bungalows. A few years ago the powers that b decided to remove the gas fire from the living rooms and fit electric ones due to removing the chimneys. These vulnerable people were left without heat for 3 days. In the past social housing had to have two sources of heating seams the rules have changed!

[Billhook]

At least people are talking about it now, whether sensibly is another matter!

 

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[Billhook]

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[Doug Tait]

With any luck some of those plucky types at Bletchley can decipher...

[Billhook]

Try again!

[Steven P]

I wonder if the sums above also take into account maintenance costs? An electric heater doesn't need much, but you can add in another £100 - £!50 a year for a chimney sweep, I tend to wear out firebricks every 3 years (at say £35 to £60 a set), in 10 years also 1 new window (not my fault!), a new grate, baffle, and rope seal (about £200 for all of that), and I guess you can also spend a coupe of hundred on a covered waterproof outdoor store for your nice kiln dried logs, and £20 every few years to treat it's wood (and I guess this week, a new roof for it)....

 

Stoves are cheaper than electricity I think but long term when things needing to be replaced and maintained they are a bit ore than the article might suggest.

 

 

Free logs... apart from the £100 in axes, £400 chainsaw, annual maintenance of that and sharpening (plus a couple of chains I knackered while I was learning not to saw rocks), and hours to collect and split, dry and store the wood.. depends on the value of your time. Collect free wood paid for itself in about 2 years using wood as my main heating, more if you only use the stove a couple of hours a day