How much wood do you use at home

[sandspider]

Some sort of ancient Villager woodburner (I think - was in the house when I bought it). I'd guess I've got through about 3 cube so far this winter. That's just regular evening fires, longer if we're in at the weekend. Log burner only really heats the living room (but gets it good and hot) as the drafts seem to stop the heat from carrying to the rest of the house. Lucky I've got gas central heating and hot water too!

 

Does make me think though - it's a reasonable amount of effort to keep the log burner fed as it is. If I move somewhere more rural and try and use just wood for heat and hot water, it would be a lot of work. I suppose a more modern burner would use less wood, but even so...

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Hunter Herald 80b.

23 radiators plus DHW.

Running 24 hours a day since October. Averaging 1.3cube a week.

 

Thats v impressive

Any problems with it?

Seems to be toss up between this and dunsley yorkshire

[bertdunn]

Thats v impressive

Any problems with it?

Seems to be toss up between this and dunsley yorkshire

 

 

Hi ArthurBottlesworth,

 

Originally had the Herald 14, loved it. Put this in - love it.

 

We get some smoke into the room when refilling - but I'm sure that's down to the draw from the flue not quite working correctly rather than being an issue with the stove itself.

 

We get 70c water for the bath from a cold tank in about 30 minutes when running 200c flue temperature.

 

We get an easy overnight burn with the damper keeping the house about 16/17c, 5 bed, 3600sqft.

 

I burn 2/3 softwood - 1/3 hardwood. Flue swept once a year.

 

I bought this 2nd hand as our fitter had the ability to rectify any problems - there were no problems with it.

 

Any other questions, let me know.

 

Bert

[njc110381]

At a rough guess I think we get through between 15 and 25m3 per year depending on weather. I'm expecting this year to not need a lot more than 15 as it's so mild so far.

 

I get through that in an 8kw Clearview. Our house is fairly well laid out so with a stovetop fan it circulates around the place fairly well, but we do run the stove pretty hard when it gets cold out.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Hi ArthurBottlesworth,

 

Originally had the Herald 14, loved it. Put this in - love it.

 

We get some smoke into the room when refilling - but I'm sure that's down to the draw from the flue not quite working correctly rather than being an issue with the stove itself.

 

We get 70c water for the bath from a cold tank in about 30 minutes when running 200c flue temperature.

 

We get an easy overnight burn with the damper keeping the house about 16/17c, 5 bed, 3600sqft.

 

I burn 2/3 softwood - 1/3 hardwood. Flue swept once a year.

 

I bought this 2nd hand as our fitter had the ability to rectify any problems - there were no problems with it.

 

Any other questions, let me know.

 

Bert

 

All sounding good, did you go for thermostat option?

 

How warm is house on full chat?

 

I think we have herald in the old den, we use room as bedroom now so haven't used it since I renewed door glass and seals last summer ......really needs new bars as well - its a very early model and slightly different to current one

 

Used to get the den incredibly warm when we used it daily

[bertdunn]

All sounding good, did you go for thermostat option?

 

How warm is house on full chat?

 

I think we have herald in the old den, we use room as bedroom now so haven't used it since I renewed door glass and seals last summer ......really needs new bars as well - its a very early model and slightly different to current one

 

Used to get the den incredibly warm when we used it daily

 

Hi ArthurBottlesworth,

 

Didn't bother with the thermostat. I am quite happy going with the flow.

 

Our living room where the stove is located is 8mx8m. I can get it to 28c full chat. The rest of the house is poorly insulated / crittle glazed so it's largely reliant on the outside temparture. So if it's 0c outside then +5c - 10c without the rads on, +14c - 16c with rads on room dependant.

 

Bert

[Craig Johnson]

3 cube a month in the winter for cooking,heating and hot water, 15 to 25 for the year dependant on the weather as we have solar thermal as well.

[Brian S]

approx 3 1/2 m3 since the start of Oct, and a ton of Taybrite when we started burning 24/7 in Nov, Taybrite for the overnight burn, or if we go out for more than a couple of hours

This is running 6 rads, and hot water, living room about 21 C rest of the house about 19

Mine is an inset model, and at the moment the house is not that well insulated

 

SLX 45i & 45fs

[richardwale]

So we all burn various amounts of labour intensive fuel. I get my fuel for free and process it all myself etc etc. if you moved house, would you do it all again, install a stove, build a log store, line the chimney.... I would....even though I know for most folk, it's bloody expensive unless it's free.

[mendiplogs]

Hunter Herald 80b.

23 radiators plus DHW.

Running 24 hours a day since October. Averaging 1.3cube a week.

 

HI MATE that a lot of wood that our large euro heat does 14 40lt tubs per week running 24/7 thanks jon