[News] Wood burners

[Cheshire Cat]

The route the smoke takes here is up their chimney, carried by the wind a short distance,and into my house through a window or door. The smoke STINKS out everything it touches.

 

[Balls of Steele]

The route the smoke takes here is up their chimney, carried by the wind a short distance,and into my house through a window or door. The smoke STINKS out everything it touches.

Same issue…with winds generally from the west it blows it straight into window or through window vent

 

[portlock seagull]

The Guardian have been running stories on this for a few years now. Which I find a little hypocritical, given that I would guess that quite a few of their journalists will have log-stoves - it's very much their sort of thing. I also recently read one of their 'cosy country pubs' (or similar) articles - quite a decent number of them were accompanied by mentions of the 'toasty open fire', sitting with a drink on a cold day by the 'roaring wood-burner'. And so on.

Even if they don’t, it’s just not a big issue. As others say, it’s a headline easy target for politicians maybe but in the grandscale of everything else it’s amongst the last not the first things to tackle for the relative impact. That’s why it’s really not worth worrying about from a pollution perspective.

 

[swindonseagull]

Gone through about 2 cubic meters of wood this winter in ours. I love having it on, not only for the ambiance but the heat it generates is so much nicer than the central heating. Also keeps the gas bill down so those robbing bastards record breaking profits aren't funded by me which is nice.

Had a quote two weeks ago to have one fitted, as I have no chimney I need an outside flue.............................£5600........kin hell

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Modern wood burners have to meet emission guidelines; they don’t emit much smoke at all. What route does the smoke take to reach your window? Maybe it isn’t a log-burner?

All the “findings” against them assume people have older/more polluting burners, not modern ones.

We have bungalows. His burner was installed about two years ago. The white smoke from his log burner drifts down, especially in light winds, and engulfs the house and garden. I’m no authority on these things but he has 3 cubic metres of logs delivered periodically from what looks to be a legit provider, so I am assuming the logs conform to whatever regs are in force. What smoke that’s produced stinks - can’t put washing out, can’t open windows and have to shut doors pdq before the smell gets in. IMO they are a bad idea.

 

[Superphil]

Yes, ours is really good and heats up the large room and beyond really well. We have the efficient and eco-friendly (as far as possible) version, according to the chap who fitted it. We are in the country -there is no gas -and like many others in the village rely on our log burner. We only burn dried wood and not any old crap, which might adversely affect the clean air readings.

I was refrying to the previous comment saying open fires are useless and provide no heat.

 

[Sorrel]

We have bungalows. His burner was installed about two years ago. The white smoke from his log burner drifts down, especially in light winds, and engulfs the house and garden. I’m no authority on these things but he has 3 cubic metres of logs delivered periodically from what looks to be a legit provider, so I am assuming the logs conform to whatever regs are in force. What smoke that’s produced stinks - can’t put washing out, can’t open windows and have to shut doors pdq before the smell gets in. IMO they are a bad idea.

That does sound awful. Where I live many houses have wood burners - you can smell the different type of wood sometimes. But there's very little smoke and nothing at ground level - maybe it's an open fire?

 

[BrightonCottager]

The big issue here is that PM2.5s are so tiny they get into all of you, not just your lungs, but your blood and brain as well. This is the scientist who has done a lot of research and explains it well to mere mortals like us. Wood burners are bad news in urban areas, particularly when we get a period of cold, still weather like the last few weeks have been.

 

[Justice]

All these pizza oven shops burn wood for hours a day we have one local that burns constantly from midday to midnight. I don’t mind the smell of burning wood others aren’t happy about it.
I’ve wood tried wood fired Pizza and all the topping seems to slide straight off the top.