knots do come undone lets hope its not a slip knot eh
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knots do come undone lets hope its not a slip knot eh
No knots in me bud ;)
A couple of comments:
1. Stropp knows his stuff. I consulted him when first thinking about getting a wood heater.
2. IMO triple skin flue is a good idea (as well as being a safety requirement for many installations). My experience at our last house was that a single skin flue set inside an old chimney allowed the smoke to cool too much by the time it reached the top of the flue. Result was a PIA as I had to get up on the roof, ladder against the chimney, every month or two, to remove the flue top cowl & clean out all the build up of creosote where it had accumulated right at the top, mainly because it had cooled down too much I think. I think triple skin helps to prevent this.
3. Paying someone qualified means you should get a compliance certificate for the installation. Without this you could be in a sticky situation should you ever have a fire & need to make an insurance claim. You can check online to ensure that the installer has the required 'ticket', & should confirm that you'll get a compliance certificate before committing to an installer. Beware of the cowboys!
4. Wood heaters are great. Much nicer heat than a gas heater. However don't expect fuel costs to be cheaper if you are buying in your firewood!
You need a decent chainsaw & a trailer & time to collect the wood, plus a means of splitting the wood - I recently split half a dozen trailer loads of wood with a hand splitter. Bloody hard yakka, but if you don't put a price on your time the cost is only a bit of fuel for the saw & car.
Wood has quite a warming effect. It warms you when cutting it, when loading it into the trailer, when unloading it from the trailer, when splitting it, when stacking it & finally when burning it! A decent hydraulic log splitter makes the job quicker & easier, but they are not cheap, & it's still a lot of work. And don't forget that the wood you cut this year will be next year's fuel. And be choosy about what you cut if you can as crap firewood takes just as much effort as good firewood.
Your right there mate on every thing except the splitting log splitter is the way to go
we bought one last year best bit of gear that we have that we have and makes the
work so much easier
So it got installed today. Absolutely wrapped to say the least. The underhouse room it is in is always cold. Really cold. Within half an hour of having it on the room is so warm. The installer suggested a really good idea to us. You know those rectangle floor vents you use for ducted heating through the floor. Well, since the three main bedrooms are directly above where the wood heater is , he said to put a vent in the floor of each room so the heat can rise up and through the floor. Brilliant idea!
But the kids can now enjoy down stair without freezing....
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As for the wood. I bought a cube of wood today just to get us started. The installer had a little device which measures the moisture content of the wood and the wood I got was fairly new and quite moist. I was a mixed lot, so redgum, sugargum and all the others they said was in it, lol. But breifly speaking with @AB I think we need to make a day up the bush and go get a load or two. Make it morning of it. I have a nice new splitter, it works really well. And I like splitting the wood. For now.
Well there's one to tick off
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Yeah for sure John. I actually had a drink tonight in celebration. Haha! May not be much for some but getting this done has really made me happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by jay see
Well he has done a good job mate, just like I would have if I had been over there.
Nice mate looks awesome
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Top job Mr Mark!
Now get your trailer over here and start clearing our old fence lines, I mean collecting some family wood to warm :-)
Thanks guys. Its amazing how this heater where it is can help the rest of the house stay warmer. It was 7degrees outside this morning and usually we'd wake up and run to turn the ducted heating on, which doesn't work real well being 30 years old. But this morning I got up, yeah it was cold, but only a little, I went down stairs where its usually an ice box on these mornings and it was luke warm in there. And I had left a window wide open too!
Mate! Just say the word and I will be there! I bought a cube of mixed timbers yesterday and I can see this going rather quick. Plus I need to speak with your lovely wife about my daughter and her insane horse obsession. She wont shut up about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Next is to do the wall for my cellar/ cave and then insulate the underfloor or ceiling depending on which way you look at it, and get some gyprock sheets up. Then do the walls.
Its probably not news to most but to me its informative. I found a list of Australian fire wood species and there combustible properties...
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You're missing the best one Jarrah
+1 @gubigfish
What they're missing on that table is a column for ash production. Jarrah burns away to almost nothing. Makes the maintenance burden a little less...
I just burn whatever I can get my hands on, a lot of it is messmate and red stringybark.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
The bloke we bought our house from though left a couple of metres of redgum behind which I am still burning but nearly out of it. If you burn your heater 24/7 you will go through a LOT of firewood. I reckon I'll need about 6 or 7 8x5 tandem trailer loads a year. Best time to get it is in Spring so it has a good 9 months to dry out over summer.
Thanks for that firewood species list.
We used to burn a fair bit of Blackwood, had a lot of mature standing trees killed by radiant heat during the Black Saturday fires but not burned on our property. We also had shiploads of Cypress which was great for kindling, but that was all. Burns very hot & wrecks grates, as well as being the worst for depositing creosote in the flue. Local to where we lived Yellowbox & Mountain ash was the most common in the surrounding bush.
Yeah I think this winter will be to just grab whatever I can. I bought one of those moisture test thingo's from Bunnings today. As the installer had one and showed me that the wood I had bought was way to wet to burn. He was right. So I had to buy bags of dry redgum to get me going and I just stacked the dryer pieces from the load I bought next to the fire to help dry them out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winnie
This little tool it great as it can actually measure the moisture content of concrete and bricks too.
While there is the choice timbers to burn, the installer said, hey if its wood, don't chuck it, burn it. He looked at the two massive pines we have that I am planning on lopping and I was going to get rid of the wood as I thought its crap for burning. The guy said to keep it and just mix it in with the better timbers. Its free wood and it will make your stock last longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuppa
So I guess collecting firewood is kinda like me having a wine collection. The older the stock is the better it is.
Pretty much, it can get too old and rot though.
I'm the same as you, I didn't buy my chainsaw and trailer until well into autumn so am not burning great wood at the moment, next year we will be more prepared.
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Keep the pine for sure mate. I cut down 3 22 meter tall radiata pine trees last year at my place. It makes the best starting wood i reckon and good for getting a dead fire roaring again quickly. Mix it with my jarrah and its good as gold. Shame you dont have jarrah over there, i reckons you cant beat it for firewood, easy to split and burns really good with no ash.
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