Put your heating on yet?

[basquesteve]

So far no need for heating but if it gets cold will fire up the gas central heating one radiator at a time

[Bayleaf]

2 cordes usually sees us through until March, so our heating bill is less than 400 euros a year.

How much wood do others use?

For the last few years we've swapped hay for wood. I think we got stung by the wood bloke getting cocky last year - all fast-burning chestnut, and didn't let us know when we'd gone over the exchanged agreement, so put in a hefty bill at the end. Bye then! Considering it all burnt at least twice as quick as oak, the price wasn't half!!

This year, we've bought a corde (4 x stéres/m3) for 200€, delivered in 1 metre lengths - mostly oak. We're supplementing with fallen branches littered around our fields, and wood we collect from garden clearance jobs. So will see if we need another corde in January - depending on the season. 400€ for a winter sounds reasonable - if the wood is decent. Previous bloke has probably got the message as we didn't offer him hay. We let the farmer take the lion's share as payment for the amount we need for our animals. So, we were already 100€ up!

[L Austin France]

Just received one of these which I thought might make chimney sweeping easier.
Looks to be good quality & sufficiently flexible to do what I want. Anything has to be better than 'ramming' rods & brush up & down a chimney umpteen times.
Plenty of others available online but the set I bought seemed & good compromise . My tallest flue is 10m so for a few bob more I bought a 12m set so I had a couple of spare rods.
Obviously haven't tried it yet but looking forward to having a go.
I bought through Amazon fr for the protection it offers & the price at €84,99 seemed the same as buying direct. The product was shipped via UPS direct from monstershop.
https://www.monstershop.co.uk/maxblast- ... y-sweepers

[DaveW]

Have put the downstairs heat pump on, forecast is for a frosty low of 9 tonight

[niemeyjt]

I bought through Amazon fr for the protection it offers & the price at €84,99 seemed the same as buying direct. The product was shipped via UPS direct from monstershop.
https://www.monstershop.co.uk/maxblast- ... y-sweepers

You sure it will work for you?

Product Features:
<snip>
​​​​​​​Suitable for chimneys with a diameter of 20cm - 70cm

Without knowing exact details of your woodie/house I'm assuming a 10/12 kw output & chimney height from top of fire of about 5m.
From this, based on my experience with two woodies in my house, I'd say that a 180mm liner would be adequate. I've got a 10 kw fire running on a 10 m high 150mm liner & 7 kw running on 5m high 150mm.

[L Austin France]

I bought through Amazon fr for the protection it offers & the price at €84,99 seemed the same as buying direct. The product was shipped via UPS direct from monstershop.
https://www.monstershop.co.uk/maxblast- ... y-sweepers

You sure it will work for you?

Product Features:
<snip>
​​​​​​​Suitable for chimneys with a diameter of 20cm - 70cm

Without knowing exact details of your woodie/house I'm assuming a 10/12 kw output & chimney height from top of fire of about 5m.
From this, based on my experience with two woodies in my house, I'd say that a 180mm liner would be adequate. I've got a 10 kw fire running on a 10 m high 150mm liner & 7 kw running on 5m high 150mm.

It'll be fine.
The dims. you mention are for the brush as supplied which is largish to cope with square & rectangular stacks.
The manual mentions that the 'brush' can be cut down if necessary. Unlike a conventional brush it's centrifugal force that 'spreads' the brush so I don't anticipate any problems but, us'll see.
I tried it on a spare bit of liner I have & it wasses up no probs without alteration but if the resistance over a distance is too much I'll just get the snips out.

[Ford Focus]

Nothing on yet! House well insulated and of an evening we wrap up in excellent thermal blankets. Toasty.

[nifty]

No.

[Doug]

Just looked on this post as today ordered 5 stere for our winter, 50 cm oak logs split, from our usual local supplier, this year its 69€ a stere, 67€ last year.with many apologies that with the cost of fuel he's charging € 6 for delivery.

[Char]

Crikey - OH is moaning because we got some wood from a new supplier this year and he charged 50€ a stere including delivery.

We got 12 steres from our usual guy but it won't be ready to burn until next year and he's upped his price from 40€ to 45€ a stere but we have to collect that ourselves.