If you use a wood burning stove - what would change your mind?

[letmeeatinpeace]

I live in a densely populated area in London, and the smoke from wood burners seems to be getting worse each year (it's coming into our home).

I'm intrigued to hear from people who use wood burners whether there's anything that would possibly change your mind to stop using them?

I would really love to persuade our smoke-producing neighbours to be more considerate and switch them off, or at least switch to something smokeless, so any tips on how to go about it in a positive way would be much appreciated.

I don't actually know which property it's coming from - it's probably several.

Would dropping leaflets with useful info about smokeless fuel, and proper stove usage be appreciated..? I'm pretty desperate..! (I'm borderline asthmatic, and really worry about my dc's exposure)

Also, is smokeless fuel genuinely smokeless?

(I will also go down the route of contacting my council, if needed, but I just don't imagine they'd do much specially as we don't know where it's coming from)

I think even if they are banned it won’t be a retrospective ban. It’ll be more of a ban on new stoves in certain areas. Or ensuring any new stoves meet certain smokeless regulations. When we changed our Victorian open fire place to a stove it cost 5k all in. If the government did ban them are they going to reimburse me that 5k?

There’s no way there will be a retrospective ban. It’s not workable. Instead they might eventually impose restrictions on new installations in certain areas and in the run up to the implementation date there will be a mad rush as even
more people install them..

Probably the stuff they spray them with to inhibit needle drop.

A lot of things we bring in to our homes are full of unpleasant chemicals which are not good for us. New soft furnishings are notorious.

We have an open fire. I rarely put it on because it's a faff, but that's the only reason. Go outside on a winter evening and most of the houses seem to have theirs on, with the age of the houses they were of an era designed for them so either have original or re-fitted ones.