How much wood do you get through ?

[Stereo]

Our esse w23 does about a wheelbarrow a day if we keep it blazing but will run on much less than that. We cook on it, it adds heat to the accumulator and provides loads of ambient heat.

[Alycidon]

That has a 23kw water boiler in it, it would run 10 big rads if not connected to your accumulator. The later models now have a 33kw ( W33) boiler.

 

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[twmarriott]

got a rayburn 355sfw, running 12 rads and hot water....its on day and night,

since october 2 ton coal and 6 cube of over grown hazel coppice, though we also have two other woodburners, one is a Dovre and that will munch 2 wheel barrows a day, the villager is a 14kw flat top A and that will munch around 1 per day, so i recon on two/three builders bags a week if its cold and all three are going.... its been much heavier usage this year as we've a 9month old in the house and he's not so hardy in the cold...

[log_hauler]

We have a 5Kw Charnwood stove in the lounge- this winter I dedcided to measure how much wood we were using. So I filled a builders bag with logs from the pile & when empty re-filled it. Since September we have used 6 builders bags of logs- so just about a builders bag a month. The fire runs 24/7 at this time of year.

[Jesse]

wheelbarrow a day 4 bed house but we also cook on that same stove, i know cus i have to walk up to the stack to get it every day when i walk the dogs, but its free heating, winter or sommer , its great.

[thomashenry]

I have a Morso Squirrel, 5kW. This is the first winter for which I've sorted out a proper log supply in advance. I started with about 5 cubic metres, and 500kg of smokeless coal. The stove has been lit almost everyday since mid October, and sometimes kept in for days on end. I also light an open fire in the living room fairly regularly. At the moment, I've got about 2 cubic metres of logs left, and about half the coal. So it looks like this amount is plenty for me. My spend on gas for central heating has been tiny this winter - looks like it'll end up being no more than 2000kWh.

[Martin Jenkins]

Hi all

 

This is my first year with a wood burner and I'm slightly surprised how much I burn, my stove is rated at 3 to 7 Kw and its heating a smallish 3 bed bungalow which is fairly well insulated .

 

If I have the stove on all day I use about 5 wheely bins a month about 1.2 meters I think.

 

Is this excessive ?

 

Thanks.

 

For our small-in-dimensions 4 bed cottage, we have a Dunsley Highlander 10 CH boiler, which takes about 4 weeks to get through a wood bay worth - which is 1.2m x 2.4m x 1.6m worth of wood. In daily terms, we use a wheelbarrow loaded with wood per day maximum, with mild conditions seeing a wheelbarrow load last two or more days.

 

The Dunsley heats the domestic hot water, and when that is hot, the water goes around the radiators to keep us from being (too) cold.

 

We do have solar thermal flat panels to work the domestic hot water during the summer, and sometimes we get some heat from that in the winter, but the majority is from the stove.

[StephF]

Our esse w23 does about a wheelbarrow a day if we keep it blazing but will run on much less than that. We cook on it, it adds heat to the accumulator and provides loads of ambient heat.

We have the same Esse as you, and yes a good wheel barrow is about right, we get loads of boiling hot water and extra heat goes into a heating system (23 rads) but a large Arrow pumps most of the heat into the rads, althogether we use around 1.5 m3 per week to cook, heat and do hot water. Being a Firewood merchant this is not a big deal, there is always masses of logs here, and I'm getting them at cost price + our labour, and it is often the rubbish I would'nt sell!

[Stereo]

Ours won't heat the house but it does hot water very well and it adds to the heating quite a bit through the accumulator. During the summer we fire it every other night or so to reheat the tank so we have DHW for a coule days. Light it when it gets a bit chilly at 10ish with a quick burn of softwood and then stoke it with super dry hardwood and let it do it's thing. If we are cooking we will light it earlier but then you have all the doors and windows open and it gets pretty warm!

 

Planning on hooking the tank up to a solar thermal panel soon so we don't have to fire it in the summer and can still get free hot water.

[xways]

A 20kw woodwarm heats house probably too hot plus gallons of hot water a dumpy of mainly ash logs every week, own wood and time so how do you cost it, prefer it to old oil heating, cosier her says, plus kettle always on stove and is used for cooking at times, beef stew today!!