Wood burners

[brand]

I have just thought it through a bit further and come to following conclusion..... I don't care

 

[Chromatic]

This is beginning to sound like a puzzle that the participants have to fathom out before going any further. A bit like cluedo. it was the butler I tell you

Quite.

We haven't even started on the below yet.

For those who don't know the efficiency of different heating methods based on boiling water.
Gas hob 40%
Microwave 67%
Kettle 80%
Woodburner 100% but only if the woodburner is being used to heat a room. All heat that doesn't heat the water heats the room. Nothing wasted. To sum up you are saving the world!!!!

 

[welsh dragon]

Quite.

We haven't even started on the below yet.

 

[brand]

Quite.

We haven't even started on the below yet.

Came from an internet site on efficiency.
Lots of heat from the gas goes round the pot/,kettle and has to heat the pan first.
The microwave heats the actual water as it heat just below the surface and heat can be contained within the microwave container.
The kettle heats the water directly as the heat doesn't have to pass through any containers and again the heat is contained within the kettle.

 

[brand]

[QUOTE 3594037, member: 259"]What would happen if you put the stove on a treadmill?[/QUOTE]
It would fall off.

 

[brand]

[QUOTE 3594044, member: 259"]Not if it wasn't moving.[/QUOTE]
Lazy bast**d.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 3594119, member: 9609"]It was my first go so I decided to use the exact same size logs and kindling as I use every night in a traditional fire, which are 100% successful. I just made it upside down.

So, to revisit the strange concept of an upside down fire we have go number two

Used smaller logs, used a vast amount of kindling (enough for four normal fires) and split them to about a third of the size I would normally use

So - what do you think happened next, ..... ?[/QUOTE]
It went out cos the Kindling still wasn't small enough?

 

[summerdays]

That's more wood than I use in my stove for the entire evening! Perhaps when I tell people that it isn't absolutely roasting (it is warm though), it's because I'm not putting on half a tree?

 

[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 3594119, member: 9609"]It was my first go so I decided to use the exact same size logs and kindling as I use every night in a traditional fire, which are 100% successful. I just made it upside down.

So, to revisit the strange concept of an upside down fire we have go number two

Used smaller logs, used a vast amount of kindling (enough for four normal fires) and split them to about a third of the size I would normally use

So - what do you think happened next, ..... ?[/QUOTE]


It went out again?

 

[brand]

I have one of these
Sheen Paraffin Flamegun for Organic Weeding:
View: https://youtu.be/Br1ZPJ8oQxY

I haven't tried it for fire lighting yet but I am sure it will work!

 

[ayceejay]

Have soapstone stoves made their way to England? Have a look at the web site below to see what I mean.
A friend has one and with a few sticks the stone heats up and stays warm for hours,

http://www.tulikivi.com/usa-can/Products/Modern_power_heaters

 

[Globalti]

[QUOTE 3594119, member: 9609"]It was my first go so I decided to use the exact same size logs and kindling as I use every night in a traditional fire, which are 100% successful. I just made it upside down.

So, to revisit the strange concept of an upside down fire we have go number two

Used smaller logs, used a vast amount of kindling (enough for four normal fires) and split them to about a third of the size I would normally use

So - what do you think happened next, ..... ?[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure you're going to tell us all the small fuel burned out and the big bits didn't light!

 

[Ganymede]

I used to house-sit at a place that had an Aga which had a kettle of water permanently sitting on the side of it - not on the hotplate, just warming to one side. The house owners used it to make their tea, priding themselves on saving a microscopic amount of money. The contents of the kettle were a foul mixture of little bits of limescale and bacteria, and the moment the owners drove off down the drive I emptied it and put it away for the week. Yuk .

Agas are horrible things.

I keep my kettle warming on the woodstove that I have in the kitchen, but I refill it a couple of times a day, and rinse it out so it is not spewy. Also I let the stove go out so it's not lit when I don't need it.

Oh god I'm thinking about my horrible old Aga now, what a great day it was WHEN A BLOKE CAME TO TAKE IT AWAY.

 

[Ganymede]

I can't see why they are such objects of desire either, apart from drying washing and keeping the kitchen warm. The only feature I liked was the silicon sheet which meant you could break an egg directly onto the stove (but I don't really know why that appealed as much as it did).

Seriously, TMN, don't get me started on how rubbish bad uneconomical poorly-designed unnecessary overrated dangerous and hard work bleddy AGAs are! Mr G has to stop me if someone asks why I got rid of mine as he's heard it all too often!

 

[brand]

I used to house-sit at a place that had an Aga which had a kettle of water permanently sitting on the side of it - not on the hotplate, just warming to one side. The house owners used it to make their tea, priding themselves on saving a microscopic amount of money. The contents of the kettle were a foul mixture of little bits of limescale and bacteria, and the moment the owners drove off down the drive I emptied it and put it away for the week. Yuk .

I know what you mean it makes no difference to your electric bill that is why mine is so high at £22.