I am toying with a log burning stove which can do hot water and CH.I would be interested to hear from anyone burning logs as to whether they find it economical or not and any other input.Cheers.

The biggest expense seems to be getting stainless steel liners and insulation installed in the chimneys-burners burn hotter than the coal fires my chimneys were designed for,and some wood gives off tar which coats the chimney -Wen I lived in a bus with a rayburn and a short metal chimneyevery so often i'd scrape it clean with a metal barthough sometimes the tar in the chimney caught fireand a few feet of flame came out of the top of the chimney-entertaining in a metal busbut here it could set fire to my house (and the neighbours...)[g]

log burning - economical?

Nov 07, 2008 21 Replies

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The Natural Philosopher 17 years ago

I managed to start a chimney fire three times in in-laws house one winter.

I'm very good at stopping them.

Water on fire, followed by sheet of wood held over fireplace.

Repeat till the roaring stops...

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Grimly Curmudgeon 17 years ago

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:

The last chimney fire I had I did just that, after seeing the 'Chimsafe' device on telly, which just belts a squirt of water into the bottom of the throat. I realised then a similar approach could be taken to putting out chimney fires in a cruder fashion, ie, a bowl of water. Mind you, a fibreglass crash helmet takes some putting out...

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