Logs for winter - how much is enough?

[anonymous-user]

So, we have two wood burning stoves, one a 5kWH, one at 9kWH. Installed over the summer ready for this winter.

How much wood am I expecting to get through over the winter (appreciating its a bit of a how long is a piece of string question).

I have ordered 1.5m3, which will fill my log shed for now. Am I ordering again soon?

[anonymous-user]

I also came by a skip full of pallet blocks

kiln dried soft wood stored in a barn just now, so will burn v.quick

but clearly I need more logs

[anonymous-user]

dickymint said:

What heating were you using before you had the log burners fitted and will you still be using it? I'm interested to know if you will be saving money or if it will actually cost you more.

LPG (no mains gas here) fired central heating: underfloor downstairs, radiators upstairs.

I am expecting that the stoves will do away with the need for the underfloor to be on much at all from, say, 5pm is through to the next morning and that the internal exposed chimney will heat the master bedroom considerably too.

Its not so much a cost thing, I just missed seeing flames!

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RedLeicester said:

Do you know where the pallets came from? If they're english or most of europe pallets then they'll be fine. If they're from Asia, South America or some US pallets, they'll be treated wood which will do one of two things: gunk up your flue and burner windows, and/or exude lots of lovely noxious gasses whilst burning...

Buyer beware!

I suspect they are English, given the clients of said pallet yard. They all look clean enough and I did a test burn in the garden with 20 and that seemed OK to me.

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RedLeicester said:

You have facilities to test for cyanide in your garden? ace!

sufficient that I am now happy to burn the pallet blocks in a closed stove inside the house, yes

no pigeons fell from the sky whilst the test burn was going on....

[anonymous-user]

thanks for the link, its useful. No such markings on any of my pallet blocks.

I would be more cautious about burning pallet blocks in an open fire than a closed stove.

Having said that I used to burn nothing but pallet blocks in an open fire in a house I lived in about 12 years ago and I am still here now (just about)