My neighbours hate my wood burner.

[HollyBerryTree]

We are in a cul de sac of detached bungalows.
My wood burner was fitted last Autumn and at the moment we are using it a lot and we love it.

But the neighbours says it creating dust which lands on their cars.

Is this a possibility?

To the best of my knowledge it's all properly fitted, it came from a reputable local company. If it's dropping dust on my car I wouldn't notice. I've got an old Fiesta that's on its last legs. I work full time. The neighbours work at home and polish their lovely cars a lot.

Can you get filters?
Maybe it's just because it's been super windy?
Does your wood burner make dust?

I don’t know how these burners are allowed to get away with pumping so much shit outside. Why haven’t they got the same standards of filtering as a gas boiler does?

I know you can’t escape the Co2 emissions but you would think the larger particles that create the smell and pollution could be filtered?

We have a log burner, not noticed any dust on the cars after we’ve used it.

I did However notice quite a bit of dust on the cars last week, but logburner hasn’t been in use. So I’m assuming Saharan dust plume? 🤷‍♀️

How long have they been complaining ? I've had a lot of Sahara dust recently but I'm not in the UK. Friends in the south of England have had the same problem.

Here you go, lots of dust recently.

www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/saharan-dust-warning-as-temperatures-soar-to-15c-after-arctic-freeze/

@Soontobe60 it will still be giving out particulate because that’s just what happens during combustion. Plastic can’t always be avoided (e.g. medicine packaging) but wood burners are avoidable and there are much more efficient ways to heat your house.

I've always been completely confused by this fad for wood burners. The government got rid of (or minimised damage from) coal fires, and then this middle class fad for wood burners came in. No outcry because its not some coalmining northerner using them.

NDN has 2 (one in her summerhouse) hateful things smoke and smell.

I suspect it's your neighbours polite way.of saying your burner is an issue. We live next door to someone who lights a burner daily and we now have to go out every time they do because the smell is an instant migraine trigger for me (and ill be floored for days) plus I'm asthmatic. It's depressing as we cannot open windows, can't enjoy our garden and can't hang washing. Please sort if for your neighbours because you may be making life very difficult for them.

Around here most people have burners or open fires;. Our cars rarely move, especially in last 12 months, and not dust covered. Good old fashioned mud we have lots of, I suppose.

Cleaning out the burner ash can be a dusty chore, but the ash doesn't spread around my house. I find that task no more dusty than emptying the vacuum cleaner.

It is the fires/stoves burning coal that create the most smoke and soot.

Several manufacturers make low-emission stoves that are suitable for smoke-free zones. These stoves won't be causing much increase in pollution because they are designed not to.

That is what we have. And we haven't been in an airplane for 10 years. We have one small 8 year old car that I drive only 2-3 times week, even in normal times.

I won't be lectured to about the environment by some hypocrite who takes several foreign holidays in airplanes each year and has 2 big 4x4s.

Do you have lots of BBQs in the summer too?

Or won't pay for garden waste collection by the council but burns all their garden waste every month....

Lots of our neighbours have woodburners (very densely populated neighbourhood) and I hate them all. The air is unbreathable on cold winter nights. Why we are having a new ULEZ in London while woodburners are still legal is anybody's guess.

I haven't had a BBQ ever.

If you fly, have big cars or SUVs or vans, garden fires, BBQs etc, your central heating on hot and often, best keep quiet about wood burners...

Most people have some undesirable environmental behaviour. Very few are pure enough to criticise others...

This time of year my car gets covered in dust. It happens every year at this time and I don’t know where it comes from. If I don’t wash it off quickly it damages the paint.

Are they sure it’s the log burner? Swap to that eco smokeless coal for a week or so (it’s in a green bag and burns clean) and see if it improves.

They will be banned before long

www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/29/air-pollution-sadiq-khan-calls-for-ban-on-wood-burning-stoves

@GalesThisMorning

I will probably get rounded on and bombarded with facts and figures but... no. I'm not bothered about the health implications of my wood burning stove. Or not enough to get rid. It's a modern, well installed burner. The wood is kin dried and properly stored. Beyond that I can't get too worked up about it. We have been heating our homes with wood forever.

These threads are the new controversial topic on here. On the last one I read, I AS the most prolific poster who was lecturing about damage to health and she was discussing her heavy cocaine use on another thread.

I bloody hate wood burners. My house stinks, my pets stink and I have to keep windows shut because I end up coughing and a tight chest.

They’re so bad for your health that it amazes me that people put them into their homes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/18/wood-burners-triple-harmful-indoor-air-pollution-study-finds

The research was conducted in 19 homes in Sheffield over the course of a month at the start of 2020

@quandmeme I think most people who have commented so far is not even focusing and lecturing about how bad it is for the environment. I think it's mostly how we are affected (healthwise and smellwise) by woodburning. It's really depressing when you're in your own house and can't even have nice air because of all the wood burning pollution outside. It's suffocating and it's like not being able to breathe properly, I don't even have asthma and I can't stand it, gives me migraine. We are lucky we can afford to get some air purifiers but some people may not.

[quote Parkperson]They will be banned before long

www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/29/air-pollution-sadiq-khan-calls-for-ban-on-wood-burning-stoves[/quote]
Yes, the government may well ban stoves, while at the same time giving the go-ahead for a new coal mine in Cumbria.

It is this government's approach of pushing down blame to the individual while allowing large business to pollute as much as it likes.

Didn't realise you weren't meant to let fresh air in the house in the winter

Guess who gives more to tory party funds. The little working class person with a clean-burning smoke-free-zone compliant stove or big coal businesses