[Closed] Woodburner on in attempt to cheer up family.

Yep had ours on last night and most of thursday

We were just back from cold wet and windy tour of north east scotland + islands and couldnt get warm.

The fire sorted that. And last night we just sat in the dark watching stornoway festival with the fire on.

Dont really grudge it as it heats the whole house at a fraction of the cost of the oil ......that said im still burning free wood 🙂 so that fractions currently just a bit of time and effort to chop wood

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That's the last bay of my new woodshed nearly filled using the remains of the fallen timber from January's storm.

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mmmmm I had taken my family on Holiday ?

Nice.

mcmoonter,

How much wood do you burn during the winter?

How long will those shed of wood last you?

I have total woodshed envy... currently getting the money together to have a Jotul 602 installed.

mcmoonter,

How much wood do you burn during the winter?

How long will those shed of wood last you?

We get through a lot, but our new stove has reduced our comsumption to about 1/3 of what we used to use. A second Dovre is in the pipelene.

How long will it last? We may have a couple of years burning in the others before we reach this one. So I reckon we maybe have five or six years worth all told. 😯

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Do you have back boilers on your stoves mcmoonter?

mcmoonter - Member

We get through a lot, but our new stove has reduced our comsumption to about 1/3 of what we used to use. A second Dovre is in the pipelene.

Dovre looks niceeee ... I like.

How long will it last? We may have a couple of years burning in the others before we reach this one. So I reckon we maybe have five or six years worth all told.

So would you say the consumption is one bay per winter?

🙂

I have total wood envy

Flippin heck! Thats a lot of wood. It would have taken me a year to chop it, never mind burn it.

I have total wood envy

dont worry its all smoke and mirrors the bays are only 1 foot deep 🙂

Do you have back boilers on your stoves mcmoonter?

No, but I think the stove is rated at 11kw once its up to speed.

We are going to put a second one in our big hall which should heat the majority of the space.

Each bay is 2.4m3 so that's nearly 14m3, I'd expect that to last a good few weeks. The eight bays make 110m3.

As I said it might be a few years before we start using it.

EDIT cubic content was wrong now corrected.

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You know your mirror is cracked right!?

From the bloody heat no doubt, 😯 11kw

I got a bit sunburnt in the garden yesterday, so had the patio door ajar for cooling.
It's grim oop north.

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Is that Fahrenheit 451 or Towering Inferno on the telly?

Yep,we had our burning Saturday night. We burn peat in summer, it burns cooler and smells fantastic when you go outside.

Peat! Now you are talking.

I used to cut it when I lived in Orkney. I loved the process, heading up to the hill to cut in May just as the wild flowers were flowering and the birds were nesting. Strong winds, long days and hopefully sunshine would dry the spread topside sufficiently that they could be raised herring bone stylee, to dry the underside.

All being well, another month or so would see them dry enough to cart home. I think our bank was about 120 yards long, and at it's deepest taller than me. That would provide about enough fuel for our Rayburn and stove.

The smell was sensational and it provided easily as much heat as logs. When we burned it in my mother's fire on the main street in Kirkwall, locals and tourists would be seen to stop, sniff and smile.

globalti & mcmoonter,

Are peat cheaper to source?

🙂

Are peat cheaper to source?

It was free if your croft had peat rights. Back in the day everyone cut peat, now there are only a few diehard stalwarts, so I expect you could reopen an unused bank.

A couple of friends cut peat for the folk museums, I was astounded how much the charged the council for them.