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My single biggest regret was not designing the house around the stove/stoves, in that a centrally located stove in the spacious hall, would have comfortably heated the hall and upstairs, with another one for the kitchen living room space. A neighbour who started after us incorporated a fireplace in his hall, as soon as I saw his layout I realized my mistake or ommission. But one really needs a well insulated openplan house design for stove heating to work.

A wile-tidy supermarket sourced cardboard Banana box, photos to follow. With the debris from the stove and 5 dogs, the wife bes hoovering most mornings anyway.

Weird arrangment, I had figgered the obvious reciprocating motion(the 2 big rams being a dead giveaway), but not the puzzling and unneeded sideways rotation. Anyway guarenteed to be very slow.

I will be sure to "quote" in future Dan.

You know, guessing the usual 60 minute ones ?

I refuse to google "Grinder". Got my suspicions like . . .

A suicidal angle grinder, it musta seen the fate that otherwise awaited it on the "FINGS WOT BROKE" thread

I thought it was windthrown? Anyway, my somewhat cynical opinion of persons looking for "free" firewood, is they will cherry pick the clean heavier stuff and simply leave the brash and rubbish at there arse.

when did tons/tonnes = m3?

Erm, No it Aint! dem bags only bes sommat like 0.9by0.9 by 0.85 to give sommat like 0.67m3 to hold 1.0t sand or stone at a nominal 1.8-2.0t/m3

Bloody Hell, those horror stories and repair costs make my G Wagen's very very very cheap to own, I could even get one re-engined with a late 1990's zero-electronics/dead-reliable OM606, for less than some of those bills.

Oops! It will be the amount that falls within the 5% VAT rate then! And ditto for the fill of 35 sec oil heating oil at the 5% VAT rate

Well, I have a .22 Thoben Eliminator running at 22 ft lbs "in the pipeline" waiting for FAC approval, IF the bloody RFD actually submitted the paperwork that is.

Mostly, I understand, from lazy feckless installers failing to either fit enough meterage ground loop pipework, or they actually did fit enough meters of ground source pipework, but either or neither deep enough, nor spread over a large enough area, ergo an insufficient heat source to draw from. So they system is then basically electric resistive heating via the immersion heaters fitted to provide higher temps needed for the domestic hot water supply. And yes GSHP is best suited to the low tempratures required for underfloor heating OR oversized and lower temperature wall hung radiators.

I did SERIOUSLY consider a ground source heat pump, under the now infamous NI RHI Scheme, especially as we had both underfloor installed, and oodles of peaty ground to locate the groundsource coils under. BUT My "free" source of firewood unfortunately nudged me in the other direction. and The ground source heat pump would still be working today , but the shitty Solarbayer logwood gasifer is no more.

Nearly correct!, 'cept the bedroom bes kept at 15-18 deg to encourage strenuous heat-inducing activities!

Heating with kero, and a 2250litre fill does over a 12month, driving the thick slab (and my intention when installed) "storage heater" underfloor for background heat, agumented by a woodburning stove heating the 75m2 of semi open-plan kitchen, living room and garden room. These rooms sit about 25-28 Deg, with a 9" solid wall between them and the rest of the house at about 15-18 deg. The 9" wall was needed to support the Bison units for the upstairs floors.

You know that joke about putting a £ coin in a sweetie jar every time one has sex before getting married, and taking one out every time one has sex after getting married, and still having enough £ coins left in the jar to pay for your own funeral 40 years later . . . Well my jar is fucking stuffed to refusal with postage stamp sized IOU's ???

Since I am currently ripping out a logwood gasifer, a shitty SolarBayer, with a 2200l buffer tank, a couple of comments. (i) The biggest issue with the Solarbayer was getting it lit, look for the boilers with the third door, or middle door for lighting purposes, or even the expensive/swish gas/electric ignited ones. It was the time needed=lost to get the small starter fire to kindle and ember down, BEFORE adding the full firebox loading of logs, GERRRR. (II) Take a long hard look at how one accesses and cleans the firetubes, some are BLOODY tedious/akward. (iii) Definately go over sized with the buffer tank, for wintertime space heating. (iv) Seriously consider fitting solar panels for summertime DHW, i.e. do not fire up the logwood gasifer at all. (V) Be prepared to shoot the mostly incompetent/uncaring grant-driven installers, or the semi-trained chimpanzees who run the grant scheme. Despite being retired, with all the time in the world, I do not intend to refit a logwood gasifer, especially with the post RHI Debachle here in NI. SIGH!

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As I have stated bytimes, "sometimes a tree deserves a hug, or an affectionate pat on its behind, before you fire up the chainsaw" mth

Is this generation o Scots planning ony monuments to those who currently define or characterise Scottish Society, if not perhaps Scottish culture, and of course I speak of the NED's.

I fancied one of these, but chickened out.

We eagerly await your unexpurgated comments re the operation of your Ironheart Andy.

Complain to the Environment Agency perhaps?