If you have a logburner, how long will ½ a ton of logs last you?

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Thank you.

We normally buy 2 tonne in November and that's usually enough for two log burners, but we have a shorter winter than the UK, and only use them in the evenings

Depends on how often you use it, and how cold the winter is.

How long is a piece of string?

Depends on how often you light the stove, and what sort of wood it is - pine goes up in no time, as does birch, but ash burns much longer.

After a year or two you'll get an idea of how much longer the stash in your shed is going to last. Sorry I can't be more helpful than that.

2 tonne Blimey, where do you keep them all?

I'm hoping to just use the burner for a few hours in the evening and probably a day at the weekend. It's not a large burner.

Thank you We bought bags from the greengrocers last year and had to top up with heat logs. I've bought half a tonne/ton? This year. The sacks are huge and it's a mix of soft and hardwood. I'm not sure if I should get some more.

I've bought 2 cubic meters and am hoping it lasts the winter.....first year with a burner though so a bit of a guess. It looks like a lot of wood so fingers crossed.

We burn about 3 small-ish logs per evening. It is a small burner, so the logs are not huge.

Thank you. My plan is to not use the central heating during the day and only for half an hour in the morning and an hour at night (just had the gas bill!) and use the log burner instead. I think the amount we have should be enough, 3 would be great!!

We used a lot in ours- mostly soft wood but we go through our log store quickly and we're not massive users of it.

We use about a cubic meter each winter using it just in the evenings and through the day over Christmas. We try to operate a year ahead in terms of storage. This time we've managed to do it from all of the trees that came down last winter - lots of sawing and splitting!

Buy by volume. Poorly seasoned wood will be heavier because it contains more water. We buy a cubic metre to start with and always top it up.

Be careful with volumes - 90 x 90 x 90 cm sounds nearly as big as a cubic metre but it's 28% less.

Ah, gotcha. Thank you. He said it's been seasoned for at least a year and it's not burning too quickly. I've had it on all day (to test it, as you do) and I've used about 8 logs. There's 23/25 in a sack, and there's 15 sacks. We should be able to use 3 in an evening.

I found adding a small amount of coal made the wood last longer even though in theory it shouldn't. The extra heat meant we could close the burner down a bit. We did have a multifuel not a log burner though.

How can you tell the difference between a log burner and a multi fuel?

Mine is a multifuel and there is a little handle which moves the grate from an open position to a more closed position.

Ahh, thanks! I have a handle, when you pull it it moves a grate on the inside

That'll be it. Make sure you only burn smokeless fuel (coal) and not house coal as house coal can damage your stove and even cause explosions.

Thank you!!

There's a chimney sweep coming to clean it and check it all over on Thursday so it should be all set. I'll get some smokeless coal too, that's a great idea Thank you

The sweep should be able to give you loads of good advice. The log burner is the only thing I miss about our old house.

I can see why.

I'm tempted to send him around to the neighbours. Their way of sweeping their chimney is to poke the hoover nozzle up it The top of their chimney is black, that can't be safe.

We probably average 3-4 logs an evening too, all seasoned hardwood

The logs get delivered to a space at the side of the drive and we cover them with a tarpaulin

Thank you, sounds like I'm on the right lines. I don't have a drive, I have a cellar (which is now full of logs... and spiders ). The neighbours keep theirs in the alley in between our houses so I can't get down it

I might be wrong but I thought it was only multifuel stoves that have a grate,wood only stoves dont have one.so if you have a grate its multifuel.

Is your cellar well ventilated? It's important to make sure the logs are well seasoned before you burn them. Ours are about a year old and burn beautifully.

I think so, there's a vent above the logs. Next door's keeps flooding though