Heating on yet??

GTB · Heating on yet??

Who's turned their heating on yet? We've had our wood burner going again tonight to take the chill out of the air.

Peter Dolman

turned on tonight for the 1st time.

Local lass

so far im rufusing and winning .problem is though is my washing is pileing upand now is not the weather for it to be hung outside.i dont have a tuble dryer.

GTB

Apart from paying to get the chimney swept and the initial cost of the wood burner the rest of its use is relatively free. The wood I burn is 90% scrap wood which is either off cuts from timber we use at work (4 * 2's, etc) or from salvaged timber like pallets or old door frames, fascia boards or trees that we have felled. The other 10% of wood comes from Studley Sawmills. I picked up some wood at the sawmills for a customer today and was very shocked to be told that a bag (the same sized bulk bag that sand and gravel comes in) is now £30.00. This time last year I was being charged £17.00 - how's that for inflation??

Block67

both our log burners have been on the go since we moved a couple of weeks ago (we are still burning logs that we cut a couple of years ago).
Got a couple of conifers to cut down this year, should be seasoned by next!

GTB

I burn any sort of wood on my wood burner, even the odd sleeper! I've burnt quite a bit of conifer/leylandii as well but always made sure it's pretty well seasoned because of the resin content of that wood. Also, a wood burner is much more efficient at getting rid of sensitive documents than any paper shredder.