What about the pollution in manufacturing new, your boiler may? Be more efficient but its only 8yrs old and needs major work with more pollution and more services or has the engineer got a Ev I bet not
your gas comes half way round the world in a smelly polluting tanker dumping oil on the way just because you have a boiler with sensors don't make you a green warrior! !
When I was running a wood burner I read somewhere that it was putting the same amount of carbon into the atmosphere as the tree took out before it was cut down.Morning All.
Bright and cool here this morning (was supposed to be raining all day/night all this week.
On the subject of pollution from wood-burners, they are not that bad if used properly and run at the right temperature.
I cannot see a retrospective ban and the very worst polluter with wood-burning is the govt itself with Drax-B power-station.
Imagine the outcry from the shires if they announced a ban while they themselves burn millions of trees worth of wood each year.
Have a lovely day.
There are rule & regs to woodburners. Mine is HEPAS certified and has a re-burner as part of its internal structure to try to completely burn all particulates that would otherwise be borne up the flue and into the atmosphere. It is the cheap imported cast-iron boxes that are the main culprits, that and people trying to burn unseasoned wood and contaminated wood.
Eye know someone wiv a fred flintstone boiler. His energy bill is 400 sovs per month. Mine 97. Now there be more peeps living in his house. We compared figures. Every 2 years he over pays on his gas bill enuff to fit a new boiler. But keeps his old one. LHis bill was 500 untill eye convinced im to fit the same control system as me. Only heat the rad in the room thas cold. In their house the girls regulate temp by turning the heat up and opening windows when hot, wiv the heating still on.
Mine comes from the norf sea. We have bacton terminal. Fer top up we buy in lng. Thas still cleaner after travel than coal.
Yer power station fires are heavily monitored for efficiency. They know what to burn and the quantity, to keep at optimal temp to keep it going. What to put in and when. They also burn waste to get rid. Thats different to no smoke zones in residentual areas.Morning All.
Bright and cool here this morning (was supposed to be raining all day/night all this week.
On the subject of pollution from wood-burners, they are not that bad if used properly and run at the right temperature.
I cannot see a retrospective ban and the very worst polluter with wood-burning is the govt itself with Drax-B power-station.
Imagine the outcry from the shires if they announced a ban while they themselves burn millions of trees worth of wood each year.
Have a lovely day.
Burned mostly old pallets on mine, logs never got as hot as old blocks off palletsThere are rule & regs to woodburners. Mine is HEPAS certified and has a re-burner as part of its internal structure to try to completely burn all particulates that would otherwise be borne up the flue and into the atmosphere. It is the cheap imported cast-iron boxes that are the main culprits, that and people trying to burn unseasoned wood and contaminated wood.
You can spot the one's burning badly by the plume of smoke from their chimneys.
Ahhhh...... you have a flue regulator, I don't. The UK industry seems to frown on them because of monoxide risks. All the US folks use them. I too have a flue thermometer though and we seem to burn best at c.200-300°c on that crude external device.Burned mostly old pallets on mine, logs never got as hot as old blocks off pallets
Join the campaign to return Murrica to the native Americans. Then all the towns n cities can have injun names.Anyway I personally demand that all US towns and cities with British names revert to North American ones, so no more York, new or otherwise, no Brum Alabama, and that is just the first two I have thought of.
I'll check the list then draw up my Executive whatnot properly, to send to "He who Trumps"
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.. M fed their dog over xmas/new year as they were both away, He works on the ships and she had to do a tour to China with the Varna opera, So it was a thank you..
Maybe your someone/Flintstone with the old boiler doesn't use it properly or ever service it. Ours certainly doesn't use anything like that in gas, our total bill per month for gas and electric is about 135 sovs a month. For a 4 bed/2 bath/ 2 recep/ etc house. And that is the winter cost, in the summer obvs it is off. Obvs his girls don't help!
Maybe your someone/Flintstone with the old boiler doesn't use it properly or ever service it. Ours certainly doesn't use anything like that in gas, our total bill per month for gas and electric is about 135 sovs a month. For a 4 bed/2 bath/ 2 recep/ etc house. And that is the winter cost, in the summer obvs it is off. Obvs his girls don't help!
It obviously helps to look after any boiler, but ours costs us very little in spares and maintenance cos so little goes wrong, the odd overurn stat, the odd thermo couple and one single gas valve, in all the time we have had it.
So I don't understand when you say that at 8 years old it is halfway through its life, yet then you say that replacing parts on something that is broken is more environmentally friendly than replacing with a new one?
Anyway it doesn't matter, we are both happy with what we have got.
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I think thay should re-name them to the indigenous names from the IndiansWeather is weird here today.
I heard thunder twice this morning while I was in bed, and recently it rained like mad then went dry then yet mor thunder much louder, yet no rain. ??????
W is off out doing some important convs with the bloke who quilts her quilts, so I have put time in photocopying pages out of her passport, and all her other documents that she'll need to put with her application. (Mine all got done this weekend.)
As she will be laid up after her op I will need to go and pick up her visa'd passport along with mine once they are done, so we have to do yet more faffing about to organise the docs necessary just to pick hers up.
Les Froggies keep trying to relax entry requirements for peeps with second homes over there but something, or things, allus seems to get in the way. Right now, with stalemate in their gubmint, lord knows if it'll ever happen.
I see Muskolini now wants us to rename the Channel the George Washington canal.
What a fool he is, does he not know canals are man made and have locks????
Anyway I personally demand that all US towns and cities with British names revert to North American ones, so no more York, new or otherwise, no Brum Alabama, and that is just the first two I have thought of.
I'll check the list then draw up my Executive whatnot properly, to send to "He who Trumps" as in my family the verb "to Trump" involves gas exit from the yuman frame!!
Have a good one folks!!
...as per Wimblowdriver's last post.
Well, my Fred Flintstone boiler is 35 years young this year. It runs the same as it has always done and the characteristics of my house mean that Gas CH averages 46Kwh per day across the year. Summer months 11Kwh (hot water only) and in winter when CH demand is at its maximum it is about 92Kwh per day and max I have ever seens is 160Kwh in a day (ran it for 24x7).Maybe your someone/Flintstone with the old boiler doesn't use it properly or ever service it. Ours certainly doesn't use anything like that in gas, our total bill per month for gas and electric is about 135 sovs a month. For a 4 bed/2 bath/ 2 recep/ etc house. And that is the winter cost, in the summer obvs it is off. Obvs his girls don't help!
It obviously helps to look after any boiler, but ours costs us very little in spares and maintenance cos so little goes wrong, the odd overurn stat, the odd thermo couple and one single gas valve, in all the time we have had it.
So I don't understand when you say that at 8 years old it is halfway through its life, yet then you say that replacing parts on something that is broken is more environmentally friendly than replacing with a new one?
Anyway it doesn't matter, we are both happy with what we have got.
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