wood burners

[Johnsond]

21 minutes ago, Steven P said:

If I remember right from a couple of years ago when the Tories wanted to do the same

?? More relevant to those of us whom live in Scotland including yourself SP, your SNP during their most embarrassing period when they shared power with some green lunatics just to keep a majority position, actually went ahead and did it only to reverse it when the reality of their stupidity became clear. 

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The SNP government has reversed a ban on log burners in new-builds in Scotland, allowing them as both main and secondary heating systems in new homes. This change, effective from April 2024, followed concerns from rural communities who relied on them for heat during power outages. While log burners can now be installed in new buildings, the ban on mains gas and oil boilers as a primary heat source in new builds remains

Edited 10 hours ago by Johnsond

[Tree monkey 1682]

10 hours ago, Alan Smith said:

Definitely not good, but your average suburban dweller with the designer wood stove is not burning painted scrap treated/painted wood are they?  It's the suburban/urban areas that the government are looking at with regard to wood smoke pollution. 

And the poor people or people who think they're clever going through skips , burning things like creosoted /tanalised/painted stuff because they are too tight to pay for wood.  That happens alot near me and the chimneybsweep now asks what your burning before sweeping the chimney , as he will walk away if its anything bar clean wood burned !

[GarethM]

2 hours ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

And the poor people or people who think they're clever going through skips , burning things like creosoted /tanalised/painted stuff because they are too tight to pay for wood.  That happens a lot near me and the chimney sweep now asks what your burning before sweeping the chimney , as he will walk away if its anything bar clean wood burned !

And what do you think happens to all this treated timber once the skip is collected?.

 

As usual it's how it's burnt, providing you've a modern stove and not some coal burner from the 40s.

Edited 7 minutes ago by GarethM

[Dan Maynard]

11 hours ago, openspaceman said:

cotton reels (who can remember making  little machines to race with from a wooden cotton reels, lolly stick, rubber band and a disc cut from a candle?) ,

Yep. Think it was in Berry's Book of Cunning Contraptions along with Go karts and candle powered boats.

[Muddy42]

I also think its a shame that regulations have gone against back boilers.  Ive always dreamt of having a massive 20kw stove that would heat hot water, radiators, towel rails.  Maybe I should learn to braze copper.