Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject: Solid fuel heating
I've bought some bags of logs, which I know is an expensive way of buying in firewood, but as this is an environmentally good fuel source, I'd like to be burning all the time. Has anyone analysed the cost comparison of wood as compared with gas?
If you buy in a load at a time, would the cost compare well?
I would love to burn wood but my Rayburns flue is too efficient. we did look into a stove of some sort that had a wood chips hopper cost about £7000 but it was enviromentally friendly which is what I would love to be, on the heating side.
Sorry Lloyd can't help as we don't have gas _________________ "If we reduce the amount of stuff we allow to accumulate in our lives, we won't have to organise it"
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I know it's hard to work this out, and may go back to collecting palets from the garden centre and sawing them up. Did this last year and that way it's almost free, apart from transport and chainsaw consumables costs. _________________ A woman needs to feel loved to have sex,
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I'll ask the fount of knowledge, we used to have gas in the last house, and now don't, we have just had a wood burner fitted. _________________ The Card Bee
if you can source the wood from somewhere that won't cost you anything but a bit of elbow grease and some time, it must be better and much cheaper
palletts are good, we butn them as well as old fence posts and anything that i can pick up but i do subsidise my woodburner with multifuel to make each fuel go further
we hardly use the oil in the tank for anything more than heating the water and that only because we haven't got a back boiler on the woodburner.....
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but it was enviromentally friendly which is what I would love to be, on the heating side.
