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  1. neiln
    A snazzy stainless steel U type thing that about 12 hours worth of logs stack in and it has the companion tools hang from it. It passed the appearance test well. It doesn't contain the debris. It's not so much the bark.... Rather the little black dots of, I guess, insect shit, that drop everywhere!
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    same here in South London. my lawn is sodden and forming puddles. It feels like its rained continuously since mid september!
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    Blimey, I just looked that charnwood up out of interest, at £2k it's fairly pricey!
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    Not the stove but the liner yes. The sulphur in the coal produces SO2, the wood burns giving H2O, these combine to sulphuric acid.
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    I've had a few splits hit my shins and make me since, did it just now with a bit of strawberry tree. I will wear shin pads sometimes.
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    As always, every tree is different. Normally ash is a synch to split green but the only time I had a load it was virtually impossible as the grain was folded. So I left it and tried it 6 months later when it was a teenie bit easier but only for a brief window before turning to rock. Get it split.
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    Gas is banned

    neiln replied to donnk's topic in Firewood forum

    yes I know, but I'm not sure its the most efficient way to store energy.
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    There is a balance though isn't there, vents wide open gives most complete burn but a lot of heat goes up the flue, close the vents a bit and you may send some unburnt fuel up the flue, but a lot less heat so overall efficiency can be higher. Close them too much and temps drop, logs smolder, lots of unburnt fuel wasted up the flue and low efficiency. Finding the balance point is the hard part where we can obsess to our *n*l heart's content. I'd love to read some treatise on it but I've not found anything.
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    Gas is banned

    neiln replied to donnk's topic in Firewood forum

    Yes, until we find the hydrogen mines, the hydrogen economy seems a misnomer.
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    Gas is banned

    neiln replied to donnk's topic in Firewood forum

    Gas made from coal, before my time. The BBC article says 1/3 of our carbon emissions come from domestic heating with gas.
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    Gas is banned

    neiln replied to donnk's topic in Firewood forum

    Article on BBC site about blending hydrogen with natural gas and reducing carbon emissions from domestic heating
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    Gas is banned

    neiln replied to donnk's topic in Firewood forum

    I like the idea of a wood boiler. Don't suppose they should be used in a smokeless zone though, and knowing my luck my wood scrounge source would dry up if I installed one.
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    You'll learn through experience what works best for your set up. Other things to try are smaller logs and different types of wood as well as how quickly in the cycle you reload and how quickly you close the vents down. If it's all about looking good then keeping vigorous flames and regulating the heat is not easily done, the flaming/off gassing part of the cycle is hottest
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    I'd tend to think wonky is right and in practice it would be difficult for the council to prosecute/enforce action as their powers arent strong enough. however, the complaint will go away fastest if it is false/you do all you can to help. So, only dry wood, properly dry, and lots of air and fast dancing flames, keep the flue temp high. you probably know all that. i find smoke is virtually never visible from my flue, the occasional wisp for a couple of minutes on reload and thats it. my neighbor burns coal, smokeless i assume, and that is clean once hot but smokes well for half hour at the start.
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    Those purevisions are very attractive looking, lovely.
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    My downstairs is also in the 40s RH and like others I actively dry clothes around the stove to add a bit of moisture back to the house, and it saves a few pence Vs running the tumble drier. And yes, any logs that are as bit damp can dry a bit on the hearth.
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    Atmosphere as in ambience? True,. A radiator can keep me entertained all evening but not the rest of the family ;). A stove shifts air and dries the air out too which is good for many houses.
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    If you run a 5kW stove a few evenings a week and a bit more at weekends, you'll use 2-3 cube over a winter.
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    Less economical than mains gas Ch, but not badly. I scrounge all my wood but by comparing gas bills from winters before the stove went in I estimate a cube of wood saves £65 on gas, give or take a fiver, and the house is run quite a bit warmer. Most people seem to pay ~£100/M3 for hardwood, give or take £20.
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    but steel starts to lose its structural strength at about 425C and is half strength by about 650C. temps vary according to the steel. stainless is lower than structural. I've a warped baffle in one of my stoves (not a morso) not badly...one corner just sags a bit. cheap aftermarket baffle and cheap steel me thinks. BTW, steel will start to glow a dull red in a dark room at the same sort of temperature, so if its glowing, its not going to be happy. I had my flue pipe at almost 500C last week....stove survived...I sweated a bit ...nerves and heat.
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    Reading this I think next spring, after I sweep the flue and clean out the stove, I'll wipe the inside over with an oily rag as a bit of extra moisture protection over the summer. Other than spots of rust flakes on my baffle I don't seem to have any trouble but a wipe of oil seems a simple bit of protection for the summer.
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    The maths seems okay to me and 7 quid a day on oil doesn't sound nuts, although a bit high for autumn and early winter maybe? dunno really..I'm on mains gas. Jeez it would cost lot oto het on oil for a winter though!
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    similar temps here. 2 little 5kW stoves in a through lounge/dinner room heat the whole house. girls bedroom at the back of the house is furthest from the stoves and has 3 external walls so is coldest room. thermostat there is 18.5C right now 22.something here in the lounge, it'll be up another half or full degree by bed time, then 17C in the girls bedroom by morning and 18C down here. this is a typical between the wars semi of around 130m2 I think its not cavity wall, just 9 inch brick and loses a lot of heat. I started burning on an off in september on one stove, was probably full time on one by early October and then I run 2 if the outside temp is 7C or below, like tonight. So second stove has been on a fair bit since late October. I'm stunned Big J that you could munch through 11 cube.. wow!
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    'kin HELL! 11 cube already! Holy moly mother of !
  25. neiln
    Crystal ball gazing I know. I'm here in south London, and last year was the first I heated with wood virtually entirely. I burnt my way through, I estimate, almost 8m3 of mixed hard/soft wood (probably 60% hard wood) in 2 small stoves. It was however a very very mild winter. I think we only had about half a dozen frosts all winter. So far this autumn and winter has been (exceedingly wet! and) colder, probably just normally cold but we've had more frosts than in all of last year. When grabbing wood off the pile earlier I looked at what I'd used and I'd estimate its 3.3m3 so far, in about 3 months. I reckon I'll use 10m3 at this rate, which is fine, I've got that and more seasoned. How are the rest of you getting on so far?

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