Wood burner ban...

Mine is multi fuel. We burn smokeless fuel and seasoned dried wood. Not sure which is worse for polluting but the wood comes from the next village so very low mileage!

We are on mains gas in this village…..but that’s only good when the gas supply is working. Never mind power cuts I have also known a 5 day gas cut! No hot water and no heating. If that happens in winter I’m going to appreciate the stove for sure. Who knows when Putin might turn the tap off! We do not have a lot of gas storage in the uk.

I think they should be banned anywhere there is access to mains gas.

There are some alternatives. They could be licensed. with everyone who wants to operate one required to buy a particulate filter which filters out the toxic particles.

This can be done already, but people don't do it because it costs money.

We have to collect it ourselves and yes, it is seasoned.

If you are anywhere near Oxfordshire, let me know where you get it!

Depends where you live and what wood you get. I live in the suburbs and have a newish one. We can only proper particular kiln dried wood and don’t have the space to get a load of wet wood cheap and dry it ourselves. I have a moisture detector to check it what we have.
We’ve only used it a couple of times this winter but, as a prepper (of sorts) it would be one option for us for heat and cooking.

If you cant get action get on to your Councillor - better still invite them round.

Yep I have one, got it put in with my life insurance I got last year for cancer. (I’m fine now)
best thing ever!!! 5 bed, 3 story house and I’ve not had the central heating on yet. Purely heated by the woodburner (top floor does get a bit chilly but we have a separate heater up there)
best bit - it’s free heating!!! (We stock piled free wood during the summer and if we run low, free pallets are easy to pick up

There's one in the house we moved into, it's never been used by us.
I wanted to get it removed, but DH pointed out that it might be useful in WW3 an emergency.

Maybe it’s the dog, or the fog, or the car fumes, or the industrial pollution?

Still a very good deal. We are taking delivery tomorrow of a cubic metre, £185. That is kiln-dried, and will do us for two-and-a-bit winters (assuming the gas stays on).

Don’t burn wood that’s not been seasoned - it reduces the effectiveness of the burner, and damages the liner prematurely.

My neighbour has a kiln and you can smell it up and down the road, really acrid and pungent. I don't know how they got permission for that in a conservation area!

Absolutely love mine, I highly doubt there is going to be a ban but if there is it's fuck all to do with air quality.

It's just more control from this shitty Government.

Wood is cheap, sustainable and renewable. Which is far better than ridiculously priced electricity and gas.

Heat pumps are useless for most households unless they are built for it. My Aunt spent a fortune gutting and insulating her house for one and it never gets warmer than 20 degrees in the dead of Winter.

All this Net Zero we are all paying through the nose for in energy bills is a complete waste of time because this is a tiny country and America and China aren't doing their bit.

Same here. I really really want one installed.

Oil fired heating is horrifically expensive the past few years (there is no gas pipeline here).

A wood burning stove is a good fallback when one cannot afford to fill up ones tank at the oil prices when they spike. (Who am i kidding they have been spiked since 2022)

Makes no sense for me on a financial level though - to recoup the cost of install etc...

My mum has one at I am always at hers in the winter ... logs burning, attenborough on, dog in the blankets, pie in the oven 😍

Where do you get it from?

Thats an extremely expensive way to buy wood. Most people I know with a woodburner buy logs online in bulk, you can get a large crate for couple hundred ish. A crate will last us several months and we have 2 woodburners.

My dad is a logger and I grew up
in deepest farmland so I’m fully aware but thank you x

Don’t forget the washing towels after every use, bed covers twice a week, jeans after every wear etc. And they all need their SUV as they have two kids and a dog. Otherwise yes MNers are very climate conscious and god forbid someone mentions they take a long haul holiday once a year! They get ripped to shreds!

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They should 100 percent be banned. They are a hazard to health and on cold nights the air quality round me is abysmal with them all going.

If they’re banned what do we do when electricity fails or actually as the price of energy keeps soaring - I can cook, heat water for hot water bottles and tea, stay warm and cheerful all from my log burner. I see some people suggesting bans to be lifted if an emergency happens but how would we have wood and a swept chimney etc. I think live and let live without reaching anymore into our homes and private lives

We have a wood burner and love it. One of the newer models that follows new guidelines and we use dry wood. We have lots of branches and sometimes ash trees to come down from ash die back disease and it feels mad to pay for gas fossil fuel when we have free wood.

When I see bags of kindling locally I always wonder why people don’t just collect it from road, walks, gardens for free. My grandma always got us to collect fir ones (conies) for the fire when we were little.

I really havent noticed a problem breathing in other people’s smoke and have never heard any complaints apart from on here but understand it would be antisocial in very built up areas.

It is good to know we can warm ourselves and heat food in a power cut with all the warnings so definitely planning to keep ours..

I have one but rarely use it. I am comforted by it’s presence if the power goes off though.

Lots of people are asthmatic but have never lived in a house with a wood burner, yet another erroneous example of cause and effect.

People have been burning wood for heat since the beginning of time.

No way are we getting rid of our burners. We are very rural and dependent on oil heating, the price of which atm is astronomical .

Our 2 downstairs logburners keep our house warm and have also proved extremely useful in recent power cuts.