salsa-king

as title, what coal do you used?

we're in a smokless coal zone so have to have smokeless coal.

I'm just trying out BRITEHEAT coal (it looks like BBQ coals brickettes) at the moment, at £8.80 a 25kg bag its cheaper than HOMEFIRE and so far very happy with the heat and it keeps in over night nicely. Yep, there's quite a bit of ash at the end but at the price i can recomend you trying it if you've not so far.


Phil

Dedrater

I will tell my gran, i just turn the thermostat up though

Graz

As mentioned on the DIY thread we are looking into getting a wood burner. We are also in a smokeless zone.

The chap in the shop said we'd be fine burning wood on a multi-fuel stove as they are very clean burning, in the unlikely event that we got any complaints just plead ignorance to the council and tell them you'll burn smokeless fuel from then on honest

By the sound of it though if you've got a decent stove and are burning well seasoned wood then there won't be much smoke. You can also get wood burners certified for use in smokeless areas but they are quite a bit more expensive.

Nimbus

With solid fuel, I use Taybright. Same sort of stuff as Briteheat I guess. We pay about 6 quid for a 25kg bag. Not used it in the stove yet, but it goes quite well in our open fire. I've just been using logs in our stove at the moment but plan to try the Taybright soon, now it's getting colder.

Klaatu

One issue, at least an issue I faced, is that to make sure you don't "smoke" too much is to burn the thing at full chat. I had installed a 26kw multi fuel/log burner in a 220m2 house. It warmed the place alright, but to stop the smoke, I had to open up the air to let it burn. This was in New Zealand BTW.

I went through 6 cords (1 cord is 3m2 I think) of logs during the first winter.

GC8

I grew up in a house with three big log burning stoves: two 2ft log type and a massive cut log type. Its a nice idea, but itd be better if you have a man whose principal job it is to find fallen trees, saw them, transport them back to your wood shed, length them, split them and stack them fro drying. If could could rotate them and bring in three baskets a say too, then its help.

Its a nice idea.

OllyK

We live in an old mining town, so we can use full fat coal. Go to a local supplier in Watnall and get it by the trailer load.

salsa-king

no full fat coal allowed here LOL

Will

we sell coal at our yard and the 2 types that are bought by people with multi fuel burners are taybright (which does look like bbq brickets) and anthracite.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

I have oil, 3000 litres of the stuff in my celler

salsa-king

5w45?


don't go down there with a naked light!