L/H White Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Can anyone recommend a decent carbon dioxide detector? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little whitt Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 if your only burning wooddont think you need one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySanchez Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) You do need one Assume you meant monoxide not dioxide Edited February 23, 2017 by DirtySanchez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted February 23, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted February 23, 2017 just get the bog standard type for screwfix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L/H White Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 You do need one Assume you meant monoxide not dioxide I did, yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtySanchez Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Had a log burner at my last place and bought one from wilkos for about £25 Back in uni days our house had one that was basically a piece of cardboard with a matchbox type surface on it. If it turned a certain colour it meant carbon monoxide. Not much use if you're asleep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 You'll need a dihydrogen monoxide alarm as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Get a budgie, in fact, get two and they can breed and earn their (indian) corn... Teach them to say 'pretty polly' etc. constantly (in shifts, so they can sleep) - if the chirruping stops they've obviously pegged it, possibly because of the log burner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athywhite1958 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Nip into your local fire station they'll give you the best advice or ask MickyD on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Fantastic though they are on a cold winters night, Logburners cost a fookin fortune to run unless you have a source for free wood - which i haven't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Near the site of the old Great Lever Conservative Club, bottom of Mount St Joseph's Playing Fields, there's about a year or two of firewood right there at the moment - two huge trees came down yesterday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Near the site of the old Great Lever Conservative Club, bottom of Mount St Joseph's Playing Fields, there's about a year or two of firewood right there at the moment - two huge trees came down yesterday... Firewood is like a woman though, you have to season it for a couple of years in a dark cellar to get the best out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 (edited) Teach it into believing you're a God with a machine capable of controlling World events? I know wood needs seasoning though, I've a load that's pretty much turning into a mushroom farm because since I've hit early middle-age I've basically become half a man, too scared of getting on my roof to replace the liner, when I get to the 'cat-ladder' point I'm apt to shit in my pants because of a cowardly soul... Edited February 24, 2017 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athywhite1958 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I got rid of my burner when I cut half a finger off, must have blinked when using the chopsaw, that was 2 years ago and its still painful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breightmet Boy Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Far too much messing apparently, I asked a few folk and it's not worth the trouble cleaning and cost etc. Turn a dial n click a button, bingo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiley Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 We burn coal and wood on our open fire. Got the chimney sweep out next week. Hope he's not some false cockney from America. Not sure which type of detector we need... better to just get a budgie??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgoefc Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Far too much messing apparently, I asked a few folk and it's not worth the trouble cleaning and cost etc. Turn a dial n click a button, bingo We had one put in last November. Love it and always missed messing about with real fires. Got my log burning down to a fine art so I don't get through as many logs as I used to. Quality of logs is also important. Those from our very own Tonge Moor Green Jacket are ace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted February 24, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 Far too much messing apparently, I asked a few folk and it's not worth the trouble cleaning and cost etc. Turn a dial n click a button, bingo It is a bit messy but not that bad at all. If you're buying kiln dried stuff at top whack then expensive too. If you're prepared to do a bit of graft it can save a lot of money. Some companies just put gas up around 15%? Biomass type heating is getting more cost effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted February 24, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 We had one put in last November. Love it and always missed messing about with real fires. Got my log burning down to a fine art so I don't get through as many logs as I used to. Quality of logs is also important. Those from our very own Tonge Moor Green Jacket are ace Thankyou sir. Just been splitting some now but I'm a bit fucked today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted February 24, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 if your only burning wood dont think you need one Do you think maybe that wood doesn't produce CO? It does, in large quantities. Nip into your local fire station they'll give you the best advice or ask MickyD on here They'll give you a smoke alarm but CO alarms are too expensive to be giving out. Cheapest seem to be on EBAY http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LCD-CO-Carbon-Monoxide-Detector-Poisoning-Gas-Warning-Sensor-Monitor-Smoke-Alarm-/112243722453?var=&hash=item1a223f48d5:m:mMfanIsu4CCFvsCT0k28MUA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted February 24, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 Ours was supplied when the burner was installed. Keep it serviced and clean and there'll be no problem. At the time any burner rated over 5kw had to have an airbrick built into the wall to ensure adequate oxygen to help prevent co production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Wanderer Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 At the time any burner rated over 5kw had to have an airbrick built into the wall to ensure adequate oxygen to help prevent co production. That is correct and possible planning regulations. Found this with some info http://www.woodburningstovesdirect.com/building-regulations-for-stove-and-flue-installations.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I got rid of my burner when I cut half a finger off, must have blinked when using the chopsaw, that was 2 years ago and its still painful Sorry to hear that, hope it's not one of your fingering fingers. My mate, who's hardly Handy Andy (he's never burglarised anyone for a start) keeps going on about buying a chop-saw to tackle the tonne of old timbers he's acquired for his burner...I've warned him he'll have his finger(s) off, but he's of the impression a chain mail glove will see him right - I suppose if he buys a metal detector then wearing the glove will enable him to more quickly find his finger when it goes flying off into a corner of his shit-tip 'workshop' (garage). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigtoe Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 A bloke who i worked with once chopped his leg off with a circular saw cutting up wood. Daft bastard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter MickyD Posted February 24, 2017 Site Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 I remember a bloke cutting all 10 fingers off with a chop saw. He got himself to hospital and the surgeon advised him that they could sew the fingers back. Then he asked where they were. The bloke told him they were still on the saw bench.Surgeon asked him why he hadn't brought them. "I couldn't pick them up!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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