A quick update to my post yesterday on Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water in Smokeless zones. I’ve just had it confirmed by Rayburn/Aga that they do no wood-fired boiler models which are suitable for smokeless zones. So that means that I should update my Bin your Aga – buy a Rayburn post to “Bin your Aga and Rayburn [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Woodburning stoves’
23 Mar
Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water in Smokeless zones
We’re slowly narrowing the field in our wood-fired heating search. Following up on my previous posts on Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water and Using a Wood-Burning Stove in a Smoke-Control Area, I’ve found an interesting thing: The Dunsley Yorkshire is the only stove with a back boiler that can be legally used in a smokeless zone They cost £1922.30 [...]
12 Feb
Shopping List – latest update
Steadily firming up the shopping list for our new house – here’s the latest list, with links. Kitchen Multi-fuel or Wood-Fired Range (possibly with Back Boiler), will need to be smokeless Various non-powered kitchen gadgets: Mouli, Hand-Powered Blender, Thermos Slow Cooker, Low-voltage (LED or Fluorescent) under-cabinet lighting Water Purifier Large Pantry, pref double-sided DC Fridge or Brownout Protector Equipment for Waxing [...]
10 Feb
Using a Wood-Burning Stove in a Smoke-Control Area
This is something we need to work out – our new house will be in a smoke control area. To check whether you’re in a smoke control area look up your local authority here. If you are then the only wood or multi-fuel burning stoves you can fit are listed on the exempt appliances list. [...]
17 Jan
How much firewood should you store?
Huge numbers of people are putting in Wood Burning Stoves, Boilers and Ranges at the moment. They’re doing this for a number of reasons: to beat rising gas and electricity prices, to reduce their carbon footprint, or to improve the resilience of their heating system in the face of peak-oil based supply issues. The first [...]
13 Jan
Bin your Aga – buy a Rayburn
George Monbiot in the Guardian is launching a campaign against the Aga. He reasons that they use a ridiculous amount of oil, and generate an obscene level of CO2. I have to say that I’m with him on this. You won’t find much about Agas on GentleDescent because once I’d done the basic research [...]
20 Dec
Beautiful wood-fired stoves, ovens and ranges
A recent thread over at powerswitch unearthed a whole range of really beautiful – and practical – woodburning stoves. Here are some of the pictures, click on them to get more details. While I love the look of the Cucinotta Forno, I can’t see it being practical to just have a wood-fired [...]
3 Dec
Rayburn Solar Thermal System
Rayburn Range OK, so this is an interesting development – you can get a Rayburn Solid Fuel / Wooburning Stove & Boiler packaged with a Solar Hot Water System and twin-coil cylinder. They call it “The Rayburn Solar Thermal System”. Seems like an interesting combination for those of us concerned with both emissions and future fuel scarcity [...]
27 Nov
Resilience: Woodburning Stoves for Heating & Hot Water
A lot of time is spent discussing how we’re going to stay warm after the peak, and increasingly people are installing woodburning stoves and / or solar hot water systems as a part of their solution for heating and hot water. There is a great discussion on this over at Powerswitch and a whole heap of useful links: [...]
