Log burners

[vinoandbrie]

I am thinking of getting a log burner put in, but am keen to understand potential costs and issues.

I understand and have looked up the cost of buying the log burner itself, but am wondering about preparation and installation costs. Any advice welcome.

We have a chimney, I don’t know if it’s been blocked up - would a first step be to get in a chimney sweep / chimney expert (what are they called?!) to take a look and see what, if anything, we’d need to get done to make sure the chimney is as it should be to have a log burner installed?

Finally, we live in a conservation area. How do I check that we’re not violating any regulations by getting a log burner installed?

Thank you in advance for any pointers.

LOL good point. For some strange reason my DH loves to cut wood and my DS loves to split it. I'm happy to watch.

Yeah dh spends hours chopping, splitting and storing wood. He has a chain saw and a log splitter thing and everything, we have enough logs to last about 3 years atm

I live in a village of about 15k people

Going by my friends about half of them seem to have a log burner

Im telling you right now there arent enough trees

I do think its very different in more rural areas, and it would make a lot more sense to have a well stocked and well run Wood burner

Doing a bit of research before ridiculing others can make one look much less silly.

Fair enough!

I don't understand how burning wood in the UK can produce so much more air pollution than cars, when you think about how many households would have a log burner compared to cars? I mean, what percentage of households actually have a log burner/fire that they use on a regular basis for heating?

Is it just because car emissions are cleaner these days, whereas as solid fuel is still dirty?

A local EH officer has compared internal emissions from a wood burner to those of a diesel exhaust. A lot of traffic related pollution is due to wear and tear such as tyre rubber, road surface erosion etc but it gets dispersed more easily.

Good job our house is, erm, horribly draughty ventilated then

I don't understand how burning wood in the UK can produce so much more air pollution than cars, when you think about how many households would have a log burner compared to cars? I mean, what percentage of households actually have a log burner/fire that they use on a regular basis for heating?

This article explains some of the causes pretty well.

The interesting thing that I’ll agree surprised me is that one Ecodesign standard stove still emits the same amount of particle pollution as around 18 new Euro 6-standard diesel cars.

I believe a lot of it is down to how well a car captures and filters out particulate pollution vs how well a stove does, particularly if anything but the best fuels are used (but even the best fuels aren’t perfect).

I have two log burners and a diesel 4 x 4

I'm a lost cause.

A local EH officer has compared internal emissions from a wood burner to those of a diesel exhaust.

If I was offered the choice of sitting in a room with a running diesel engine, even a small one, or a lit log burner. I know which one I would choose.

I do think its very different in more rural areas, and it would make a lot more sense to have a well stocked and well run Wood burner

In my state we've got about 25 billion trees and about half a million houses

the point some pages back (between all the blabber, do we have XR on here expecting us all to freeze in caves?) about classifying wood and biomass incorrectly as carbon neutral is quite reasonable.

Biomass pellets brought from tree plantations in America to fuel subsidised power plants in Europe is clearly very far from carbon neutral. Me burning two-year-seasoned wood from my own large garden is much more so. The usual issue of one size not fitting all.

I'm not carbon neutral because I breathe, of course.

Biomass pellets brought from tree plantations in America to fuel subsidised power plants in Europe is clearly very far from carbon neutral. Me burning two-year-seasoned wood from my own large garden is much more so. The usual issue of one size not fitting all.

Exactly. The last lot of firewood we processed travelled less than 50 yards from where the tree was felled to the log store... in wheelbarrows.