Would this " ban" include barbeques heated by wood or charcoal?
Many a warm evening in urban areas is ruined by people who think that burning food under an open sky makes it taste good, but a lot of barbeque sauces are sold that disguise the taste of the burnt offerings.
G.Harman
I have a 12kW clearview. The left hand allows air under the grate the right hand controls the air wash down the back of the glass door.
Both full out for lighting. Left nearly fully in to run. Right part way out.
An outdoor log fire would not normally have any airflow from underneath:-)
If you look inside the stove while pushing/pulling you'll probably see that it operates a riddle, to allow you to remove the ash by letting it fall into the ash-can.
The exemption is not for wood (which is banned), it's for a specific list of exempt appliances which can be used to burn banned fuels in clean air zones. The list of exempt appliances is here:
They were supposed to meet specific polution figures, but that's just based on what the manufacturers claim. Turns out they all chuck out loads more than the manufacturers claimed, so removing most, if not all, from the exemption list should be easy to do. About 6 months ago, GLA said they would ask DEFRA to update the list in October when they had measured actual polution output from the appliances. This would be all clean air zones in England not just London.
It may be that GLA are now also looking at London-specfic legislation. I saw a suggestion of a ban on new installations (which GLA can do), with the exemption list being updated later (which DEFRA has to do) which would ban the use of most/all existing installations. Clean air zone legislation is all restrospective, or it wouldn't work.
We did. We decided to stop mining it for a number of reasons. It is now lost - mostly you can't recover a flooded/collapsed deep mine.
There was a naivety that we had found all the oil. We hadn't. However, what's remaining isn't the cheapest to recover, and current oil prices make many of the active fields today not viable because there's a surplus of supply over demand.
And the manufacturers will be burning the correct fuel.
Despite being in clean air zones look at some of those filling stations that sell (expensive) bags of solid fuel on the forecourt. Many still have bags of plain old coal and that being cheaper means people who are hard up buy it. or they burn old pallets or skip find wood with layers of old paint and treatments over it.
G.Harman
The previous owners had left the fire set, but now that it has burnt out I can see that's exactly what it does. Embarrassingly obvious with hindsight. Thanks!
Isn't everything? :oD
No problem!
If you're thatched you will have consulted your insurance company.
Assuming you want your insurance to be valid... We have a metre long chimney pot to keep them happy. And spark filters seem to be out of fashion.
Andy
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