You horrible wood burners

[SteamyTea]

How are you going to certify your home grown?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/01/house-coal-and-wet-wood-restrictions-come-into-force-in-england

[jack]

They won't give it up burning stuff for environmental reasons, or for the impact on the health of their families and neighbours. Why would they worry about what looks like a fairly toothless law?

[ProDave]

6 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

How are you going to certify your home grown?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/01/house-coal-and-wet-wood-restrictions-come-into-force-in-england

Where does it say you have to?  This is just placing resrictions on what can be SOLD.

[jack]

2 minutes ago, ProDave said:

Where does it say you have to?  This is just placing resrictions on what can be SOLD.

 

Yup, completely toothless.

[ProDave]

And if it becomes harder / more expensive to buy wood, then more people will make their own arrangements.  Beware of unintended consequences.

[Thedreamer]

 

1 hour ago, ProDave said:

Where does it say you have to?  This is just placing resrictions on what can be SOLD.

 

If your growing your own, you will most likely be in a rural environment, where very little pollution is going to be felt by your neighbours.

 

Installing a wood burner in a urban area makes no sense.

 

I checked our own home grown and they are 5-7% on the moisture meter. 

[joe90]

18 minutes ago, Thedreamer said:

Installing a wood burner in a urban area makes no sense.

I agree, when I lived in Bristol I would not have installed one, down here in Devon, very rural, I do have a stove (which I use rarely) my own felled timber will be at least three years old before burning.

[SteamyTea]

4 hours ago, ProDave said:

Where does it say you have to?

 

2 hours ago, Thedreamer said:

I checked our own home grown and they are 5-7% on the moisture meter. 

Wasn't there something about sulphur content.

 

"The changes also mean all manufactured solid fuels must now have a low sulphur content and only emit a small amount of smoke."

 

How many people check for this?

[ProDave]

When they stop DRAX burning wood, I might, just might. take some notice of environmentalists.

[SteamyTea]

13 minutes ago, ProDave said:

When they stop DRAX burning wood, I might, just might. take some notice of environmentalists.

Not quite the same technology.

Domestic wood burners do not have fluidised combustion beds or exhaust scrubbers, oh, and constant monitoring.

And it is the environmentalists that are trying to get then stopped, it was accountants and ill informed politicians that got them to burn wood chips.

Edited May 1, 2021 by SteamyTea