How much do you use your log burner?

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And how do you keep it going if you use it in the day and go out?

I use it most days from October to April .

Our sitting room is south facing and even on a cold day it gets very warm most afternoons so the stove isn’t needed until sunset so I haven’t often had to think about keeping it going when I’m out. I’m very wary about doing that because I worry about a possible chimney fire. However if you close the vents/airflow thingies when you go out, a well banked up fire should keep ticking over for a couple of hours. However running it like that causes a lot of smoke buildup on the glass.

We don't use ours a great deal. It is lovely to have on during autumn and winter weekends though. We only really light it when we know we're going to be in and in that room for a good chunk of time - movie afternoon or similar.

Hardly ever, we seem to use it less and less each year. About twice last winter. We only tend to bother when we're going to be at home all day and evening which is rare usually. I anticipate using it more this winter .

We use ours every day from around October - March as it's our only source of heating. We only really use it in the evening though so going out isn't an issue.

just weekends during winter , mostly Saturday eves

We have two, in the main living room as it gets colder, say Oct on, we use it every day, seldom during the day though, normally about three or four pm we put it on and it’s on till we go to bed. We are self sufficient in wood though. We put it on first thing in the morning if it’s very cold.

We use ours almost every day between October and April and have the chimney swept twice in that time. We have our own wood supply so it makes sense for us to use it. The fire stays in for ages if you turn it down, probably for 4 or 5 hours. Sometimes it's still glowing when we get up in the morning.

Everyday October to March unless unseasonable warm like this spring

We don't have any other heating on in the living room. We have underfloor in rest of downstairs on low and no heating on upstairs at all.

The fire take ten mins to ignite them 20 mins to establish and then turn it down to lowest setting (close the vent almost fully) it will tick over for hours and hours (7 ish). We replaced ours a few years ago on this one- chesney Salisbury 5w - is better than the old aga brand one we had. This has air flow to help the glass stay clean but it does soot up is closed too far. We buy kiln dried logs from out local vendor. 200 for a year. We make kindling from pallet wood and use eco wood wool fire lighters.

Way more info than you asked for!!!

Every Friday, Saturday & Sunday evening and over Christmas between October and May Day holiday.

Sometimes if we are in all day then we will put on in the afternoon but that's very rare

Every day, October to March. It’s our only source of heating, but we generally only have it lit when we’re in for the evening, or going to be in all day. Nothing like it 👌🏻
If we shut it right down and are a bit savvy about it, it’ll be glowing in the morning, so you just need to kickstart it again but we don’t often worry too much about that as it’s no real hassle to light and get going.

Every evening as soon as the weather turns colder - we love it! Saves on heating downstairs too.

Most evenings in winter, rarely in the day....though I anticipate more this winter as working from home.

In laws have one in the snug off their kitchen and have it on all dayTime everyday during winter and don’t really heat the rest of the house. They’ve got a gas fire in lounge for evening.

We buy kiln dried logs from out local vendor. 200 for a yea

That’s very low. And works out approx one log a day for the six months you use it. Unless you’re burning a shit load of pallets, burning one log a day seems pointless.

I’ve never counted but we prob use ten times that, so 200 logs would be about three weeks worth. I’ve never seen them sold by number either, normally it’s by volume, litres, crates or tonnes.

Once or twice at Christmas: always Christmas Eve and maybe one other day. I love it and would use it every day during winter If it wasn’t for the fact that they are so harmful for the environment.

Every day here too; probably from October to March ish. We don’t run it all day - it’s the first job when you get home from work and it probably goes on mid afternoon at the weekend unless it’s Baltic!

We use ours Friday evening and then Saturday and Sunday from whenever we sit down in the lounge (So mid afternoon) till bed time. During the Christmas holidays, it will be on everyday. We do have a radiator in the living room for the days we don’t light it, for us it’s a secondary heating source.

ha! We count logs in wheelbarrrow loads. I can get thru 0.5-1 wheelbarrow loads in one day, if I burn for 12 hours solid. £200 is good for about 30 wheelbarrow loads. It's not a cheap way to heat the house.

Our burner is tiny so needs attention every 45 minutes else I'm dipping back into kindling (of which we have huge amounts, all scavenged).

My tip is to get a flue thermometer so you know you're burning at ideal temps.

£200 for the year worth- not 200 logs!

@Bluntness100 to clarify I missed the pound sign. £200 It's 2 cubic metres deliver by tipper truck and than handballed back round to the log site and stacked Norwegian style. We also have some foraged wood. We split pallets Ito kindling sticks and use three per starter fire. Hope that's ok!

We use ours every day through from around late September to March. We tend to light it in the late afternoons and keep it going all evening. I absolutely love it. It means we can turn off the heating in the rest of the house so we have cool bedrooms, which we prefer for sleeping.

Everyday through Autumn/winter for the big one in the kitchen and weekends for the lounge one.

Oh that makes more sense! I was thinking blimey 200 logs, what’s the point of that! 😂

Agree, it’s not the cheap option. Two cubic metres isn’t a lot still though for daily usage, it’s about six hundred medium logs, so for us that would be a couple of months worth, or a month for someone using it all day as ye olde trout said.

We use a wheel barrow load every two days, but use it late after noon on. All day is also about a full barrow. The main one is 11w though and heats a big room. We seldom use thr other. Unless self sufficient it is defintely not the cheap fuel option many think.

Everyday from about October to April.

It's in our sitting room and it's open plan, so as long as we leave the bedroom doors open there's no need to have the gas central heating on.

We installed it last September and I cashed in a £500 overpayment on my gas and electricity bill in spring, we probably spent 2/3 of that on logs but it's still a saving. We've just bought 5 tonnes of logs for £250 this year which will see us through the winter and into middle of next year.

We have 2. One is our main source of heating. It has a back burner which heats the central heating system. We run it constantly from October through to March. Lighting it is the first thing we do when we get up in the morning. If we are careful the evening before we can keep it going all night but we only do that on the coldest of nights. It stays in during the day but normally someone is around to feed it at lunchtime.

We also have a small stove in the living room which is lit most evenings in winter. It will only go a couple of hours without attention though.

We get through 20 m3 a year, at a cost of about 1000€. We have no other heating costs.