Wood usage

[avio]

I have an 8KW woodburner used about 6 hours a day all winter mostly on low. Last year I used about 6-7m3.

[richardwale]

Massively depends on how cold it gets! Last year reckon we got through approx 8 cube, only burning evenings and all weekend. If it got seriously cold add another 4 or five cube

[richardwale]

12kw stove

[Martin Jenkins]

Last winter I got through 4 wood bays which were 1.2m deep, about 1.5m high by 2.8m wide packed with three rows of logs (gaps between).

[cornish wood burner]

I'm after some advice I know the figures can only be a rough guide but...

 

I'm wondering how much wood it would take to run an 8kw stove through winter

 

Open to hardwood / softwood options

 

Burning for about 8-10 hrs a day

 

Cheers

 

Assume 4 KWh/kg so a 8kw stove should use about 2.5kg/h allowing for some inefficiency

So burning 10hours a day then 25kg/ day

Hard or soft little difference in weight used just need to feed it more often with softwood as less dense.

[Brian S]

Went through about 4 1/2 m3 of logs plus coal last winter,

[Martin Jenkins]

Last winter I got through 4 wood bays which were 1.2m deep, about 1.5m high by 2.8m wide packed with three rows of logs (gaps between).

I forgot to say that my stove is a central heating model, about 14kW output