February 23, 20179 yr You do need one Assume you meant monoxide not dioxide Edited February 23, 20179 yr by DirtySanchez
February 23, 20179 yr 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
February 23, 20179 yr 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.
February 24, 20179 yr Nip into your local fire station they'll give you the best advice or ask MickyD on here
February 24, 20179 yr 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!
February 24, 20179 yr 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...
February 24, 20179 yr 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.
February 24, 20179 yr 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, 20179 yr by Youri McAnespie
February 24, 20179 yr 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
February 24, 20179 yr 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
February 24, 20179 yr 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???
February 24, 20179 yr 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
February 24, 20179 yr 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.
February 24, 20179 yr 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!
February 24, 20179 yr 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
February 24, 20179 yr 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.
February 24, 20179 yr 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
February 24, 20179 yr 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).
February 24, 20179 yr A bloke who i worked with once chopped his leg off with a circular saw cutting up wood. Daft bastard.
February 24, 20179 yr 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!"
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