painterhombre

OH MY GOSH ITS COLD!

Ok, although i had been in Spain in other times before we moved here, i.e., not just the hot summers, i never envisaged in a million years (AÑOS?) that Spain would get this damn cold and the houses, especially large ones, would take that much hassle to heat!!!

We have gone through 5 tons (seriously) of firewood heating what amounts to a 350-400 ish sq mtr house with tiled and marble floors and worktops and we are sick of being freezing! The fireplace is of course predictably large, but our firewood hombre who has been delivering it by the truck load to the house suddenly announces, on the day we need the wood, that he has run out of wood!!!!!!!! This fella is "Hombre con Chainsaw" and has or had a large yard with huge mounds of wood, trouble is, everyone else living on the edge of Valencia also knew this and also were freezing, so he has, prob for the 1st time ever, run out!

Does anyone now (and you can PM me if it has to be in the rules like that)....anyone in Lliria or around, e.g., casinos, domeno, olocau, l'eliana, villamarxant and so on..............who does firewood, and preferably someone willing to deliver it to Lliria, prob about 2 tons of it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Casa Santo Estevo

There was a thread where someone from Galicia wanted to take back to the UK a trailer load of wood, it seems they had more than enough. Maybe if you could find that thread and ask them if they would export some eastward.

derek500

There's a wood yard on the via de servicio by the northbound carriageway of the CV35 between the junction for Brico Depot and Bétera/San Antonio de Benageber.

They've delivered to us in the past and driving by the other day I saw a few mountains of logs.

painterhombre

nice one, i will check it out tmrw

TheLostPhotographer

http://www.morsoe.co.uk/



Seriously. A good €500 investment will save as much in a year. Even in a short Spanish winter year.

Mitzyboy

You should have strapped one to your back on your travels

TheLostPhotographer

Well, yeah. They're probably much more expensive here due to the weight of transportation/export. Still well worth whatever they cost mind.

Honestly, brilliant little stoves that will pay for themselves within the year. You can close them down for a couple of days on just a single log! The Scandinavians know how to do good stoves. The Spanish don't.

They are very heavy mind. Very, very heavy!

painterhombre

are you working on a commission basis?!!!!

but they do look nice i must admit. Our chimenea seems so inefficient, i know its a large place we have here but we've got thru 5 tons of firewood in 3 months! House is still as cold as a morgue though.

I dont know what to do with the cold here, Do you reckon it could signify the present of ghosts?

TheLostPhotographer

Perhaps I should be. I'll email them and ask, but I suspect I won't get a reply

angiescarr

We found what *we* call 'hotlogs' from Leroy Merlin actually worked out cheaper than getting a delivery of lena. These are reconstituted wood in plastic bags of around 10 or 12 logs for around 3.50. A bag lasts us a day if we don't light the fire until the afternoon. They burn quite fast and quite hot. We tend to use them to get the place warm and then put a large 'chunk of tree' on for overnight if it's really cold. That heats the chimney up which then keeps the place warm for the next morning.
We're in a cold rental now. But this winter made us decide to put underfloor central heating pipes (suelo radiante) in the house we're building. Can't afford the rest of the setup yet. But at least they'll be in place for when we can!

painterhombre

hola! Its odd you should say that actually! I saw them today in the Garden Centre next to heron City leisure park in valencia city. There was these logs that it said lasted for 2 hours each, for about 4 euros though, but i think you mean tightly packed bags of the recycled logs yes?

We were in there buying some of them. Cant find any lena anywhere, and the person who kindly gave me details of someone selling wood next to the cv35, we couldnt find the correct service road to go down to get this wood, and its a road where once you miss the turning, you have drive for ages , then turn around, and drive for ages back the other way, and THEN turn back the way you were going in the 1st place, only to miss the turn again.

which is what we did................



and over the winter we have even been supplementing out main lena (sorry english keyboard, dont know hot to do the n with a thingy above it).....with those packs of fake logs from leroy merlin in el osito, but i still reckon we need to think about different heating for next winter as our huge fireplace is so inefficient....

paintermujer

Weve spent a fortune on them too.Leroy has runout aswell so now we go to a garden centre which is on its last packs of reconstituted logs.

Ive got a feeling that well have no wood soon so it had better get warmer fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

painterhombre

OH FOR GODS SAKE..............

i'm in the other room love!!!

painterhombre

come on, none of this "comedy double act" nonsense or someone somewhere will report us to admin, as they did last time, the poor dear things.

derek500

Sorry about that. You need to take the southbound from Lliria and come off the junction for Paterna (the Brico Depot one). Cross over the CV35 and as you come round by the petrol station the service road is on the right, before joining the northbound carriageway.