Woodburners and air pollution

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Hi, not sure where to post this.
DP is a carpenter and is adamant that burning clean dry wood like oak will not pollute the air. He has access to lots of offcuts and wants to heat an outdoor garden studio of ours with this as it's really hard and £££ to keep warm with electric heating.

I'm asthmatic and prone to lung infections etc. Read this in a Guardian article and makes sense to me but dp says it's all propoganda.

Any insight on this matter? Thanks
"Tiny particle pollution is harmful to health as it can enter the bloodstream, be carried around the body and lodge in organs."

Your DP is wrong but it is hard to change people's minds. Local for atmospheric chemistry research from universities, that might be better as it is the pure science.

'Burning shit is bad for lungs' is not really new info though!

Local = look (stupid autocorrect)

carefully courageous thank you, I will. Need pointing in the right direction

Why does he think it’s propaganda? The research is linked to peer reviewed studies. Even if he’s being dim, he surely isn’t suggesting risking your health?

He's being arrogant, playing God, and telling me point blank it won't affect my lungs...

Do you use the outdoor studio?

Yes, it's bad for your lungs if your indoors (most bad if it's an open fire, less so if it's a stove with enclosed flue, but you still have to clean it)
Its really bad for anyone walking outside where ever the smoke dumps ( so you or any other vulnerable person with weak lungs). That's assuming your flue is correctly installed at the right height of the full roof and not in a single storey extension
It's fucking awful in cold damp October evenings, when flu season is about to start.

There are loads of good materials out there i think the world health organisation recently did a health assessment and Germany were going to bring in some extra legislation.

Finally, off cuts aren't going to burn as clean as seasoned wood, and you'll need alot of it! Wood stores are great places for spiders.

How do you want to heat it op? I am guessing you are not sone ignorant person and know full well the impact on the environment of electricity production, so you don’t wish this either, so how do you propose to heat it? I think this is the critical point, what’s you’re counter proposal?

Which - wood burning stoves should come with health warning

Asthma UK indoor asthma triggers

@Wisteriaroundthedoor wood with a ready to burn symbol NOT offcuts!

Solar panel on the roof, powering an oil heater would also work if you're going to give due consideration to a household member with asthma and gave a crap about their health.

Thanks everyone, so many thought provoking points raised.
Yes I do use the garden studio but he uses it more. My bedroom is overlooking the garden.

For my lungs and everyone's lungs, I'd say two oil filled radiators but the cost is absolutely horrendous

Interesting. But how do you think electricity for the radiators gets generated? Im asthmatic and use seasoned wood I cut myself. I use it in a sealed burner and see it as carbon renewable. What do you think options are?

@Onceuponawhileago it sounds like your in a very privileged position if you have the space and facilities to grow, cut and season your own wood.

Many of us live in densely populated towns, do you truly think that in an ideal world everyone should do what you do?

I think it should be a solution that fits the problem, and the big problem is the OPs lungs, others may prioritise ecological concerns or purely cost, but op is best placed to negotiate that.

I am asthmatic and I do not think my woodburner causes me any problem at all. My asthma is controlled by the usual sprays and lighting the woodburner does not affect me. We burn kiln dried logs and the occasional offcut.

I am asthmatic and I do not think my woodburner causes me any problem at all. My asthma is controlled by the usual sprays and lighting the woodburner does not affect me. We burn kiln dried logs and the occasional offcut.

OP didn’t say they grew it!!

It doesn’t take much space. You can buy unseasoned wood cheaper. You just need 2 stores they don’t have to be huge!