Wood burner ban...

The leader of the Green Party is ridiculed because he is ridiculous...

Tree takes carbon from the atmosphere as it grows, which is released when you burn it. Net carbon emission = zero

They are as bad in your house as smoking inside. If it wasn't mainly middle class people using them, they would have been banned years ago.

For most people who use woodburners, it's a fashion choice. Those people have central heating but they enjoy woodburners. And yes, there are some who want to save money, but could afford not to. But they'd rather save money, even if it means their neighbours getting dementia or whatever, and regardless of the cost to the NHS.
No doubt there are some who would really struggle without their woodburner, but they're in the minority.

i am reading all the posts trying to decide how to proceed this winter.
I live in a rural area with no neighbours nearby,nearest neighbour about a mile away,my house is more than 200 yrs old and hard and expensive to heat. We dont have gas supply and electricity and oil (our fuel for central heating) is hughly expensive ,i havent put the heating on yet this year due to fear of cost and am currently cold. The house has a wood burner,it was installed by the previous owner and meets current standards,storm gorretti brought down trees that are stored in my wood store .......what would you do?
Will my log burner really cause dementia,cancer and deaths ?

No, it's just a fact. Woodburners cause thousands of deaths a year in the UK. That's been researched and documented. And on top of that you have all the people who suffer from horrible health conditions but don't actually die from them.

I’d love it if they were banned but how would it be policed?

he is right though even if you only light it 10 times a year 70 per cent of your heat is gone up the chimney so your basically throwing money up the chimney
We changed our open fire years ago to a door on it and my god the difference no draft and used half coal and stocks - far easier to clean as well and less smoke damage in the room

It would be very easy to police. Because of those big black metal chimneys sticking out of people's houses.

We have one, a newer low emissions one and I was interested to see whether the indoor atmosphere was really badly affected. Our phillips air purifier is madly sensitive to cooking smells, any sprays, slight dust from the curtains being pulled etc and registers this by amping up the fan and changing colour. In the room with the stove, properly clean and working? No problem. I’m keeping mine. We’re not in a high density area, though. But then I don’t think we’re designed to live in high density!

I wouldn’t. We have no other source of heat.

Yes and note OP anything that can’t be controlled by smart tech and AI is deemed bad for the environment 🙄 . I’ll happily give it up when we sort out other emissions first from yachts, private jets, data centres and list goes on. Net Zero = roll out of 4IR tech which is not good for the environment.

Are they fuck

When we light our woodstove, it might smoke a little into the room, but as soon as the door is shut, that's it - even when we open it to stick another log in, everything is going up the chimney.

People are always saying that it's as a bad as living with a heavy smoker. Yeah, no. I lived with one of those, the house stank and I had sinusitis all winter.

My elderly parents have had one in their house for years.

The way you're talking, it's amazing they're still alive!

Police how?

@BusyGreySnail It's a bit strange to single out wood burners, specifically.

Why would it not be more appropriate to simply ban all domestic fires in urban and suburban areas?

The flue from our neighbour's woodburner is in line with our bathroom window so....

I agree bonfires smell much worse but when people burn similar wood in a wood burner it smells almost as bad and unfortunately that's exactly what a lot of people who installed woodburners to save money when energy prices went up due to the Ukraine war do. All day, every day, throughout the winter. The properly dried wood that's supposed to be used isn't as polluting but unfortunately there's no enforcement of it's use.

I would suggest that if my log burner is making them infertile then it might be quite hard for their children to get cancer, or grow older and get dementia.

Police how? Police aren’t responding to lots of crimes

We live rurally and don't have access to mains gas so we've got an LPG tank in the garden. We've had a wood burner fitted, it's inset into the chimney and is a "clean burn" system where the air recirculates inside it so there's barely any ash. We run our own business and one of our suppliers bags up offcuts of wood so we bulk buy those and it costs mere £s to run. A tank of LPG now costs over £1k and we use 2 to 3 tanks a year if we solely rely on the gas.

Me too. I hope they aren’t banned.

My neighbour has one and it’s awful. I have one and never use it

Whenever I think that I have already seen the most stupid and brainless commentary on the internet, one individual always finds a new way to take stupidity to new highs.

Well, indeed.

Though it would probably fall to Environmental Health, but our local council can't even issue new recycling boxes on time, so good luck with that.