Firewood use over winter
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Do you have any other heating? How well insulated is your house? How hot do you want your house to be? Is your house occupied all day or not?
I could say i use 10 dumpy bags per winter. Or just half. All depends on your situation?
Btw, i got a well insulated house, keep it about 20 deg, occupied all day pretty much and rarely use log burner and use about half/yr.
I could say i use 10 dumpy bags per winter. Or just half. All depends on your situation?
Btw, i got a well insulated house, keep it about 20 deg, occupied all day pretty much and rarely use log burner and use about half/yr.
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Burning most evenings and from mid/late morning at the weekends we went through a huge amount at our old house (no log burner in the new one.... Yet) I wouldn't be surprised if it was 20+ of the ton builders bags. Fortunately our supplies were all freely acquired.
It really will depend on how much you use it, for me though I didn't see the point of having it and barely using it.
It really will depend on how much you use it, for me though I didn't see the point of having it and barely using it.
I got a wood burner install in Sept, moved from an open fire.
The difference was incredible, majority of heat actually heating up living room instead of going up chimney.
I got the following wood delivery
1 x Jumbo (1m3) Kiln Dried Hardwood
2 x Barrow Kiln Dried Softwood
2 x Kiln Dried Kindling Carrypacks
1 x 60 Odourless Firestarters
It was £150 but should last until Jan. I have fire lit most evenings for a few hours and nearly all day Sat/Sun
I'm in the same boat as Foghorn, don't see the point of having it and not using it.
The difference was incredible, majority of heat actually heating up living room instead of going up chimney.
I got the following wood delivery
1 x Jumbo (1m3) Kiln Dried Hardwood
2 x Barrow Kiln Dried Softwood
2 x Kiln Dried Kindling Carrypacks
1 x 60 Odourless Firestarters
It was £150 but should last until Jan. I have fire lit most evenings for a few hours and nearly all day Sat/Sun
I'm in the same boat as Foghorn, don't see the point of having it and not using it.
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How long is a piece of string...
We have a small 4.7kw stove in a new build very well insulated house, we've not actually used it at all this year as we have a new born so have just whacked the central heating up instead... But the last 2 years we went through maybe the equivalent of 3 or 4 builders bags of logs in a winter. That's with having it on 3 or 4 evenings in the week and maybe 1 full day on the weekend depending if we were out and about or not on average.
It's (usually) always better to buy cheap un-seasoned wood and stack it yourself for a year or so, even the 'fully seasoned ready to burn' stuff you can buy has needed a fair bit of drying time in my experience to burn really well, unless you want to pay big bucks for actual kiln dried stuff.
We have a small 4.7kw stove in a new build very well insulated house, we've not actually used it at all this year as we have a new born so have just whacked the central heating up instead... But the last 2 years we went through maybe the equivalent of 3 or 4 builders bags of logs in a winter. That's with having it on 3 or 4 evenings in the week and maybe 1 full day on the weekend depending if we were out and about or not on average.
It's (usually) always better to buy cheap un-seasoned wood and stack it yourself for a year or so, even the 'fully seasoned ready to burn' stuff you can buy has needed a fair bit of drying time in my experience to burn really well, unless you want to pay big bucks for actual kiln dried stuff.