correveidile

Sapper, to me it looks like your wood burner is well under size for your needs if you wanted to heat the whole house with it. As a rough guideline, to heat a 300 metre house effectively you would need a 40 to 50 kilowatt heat source. If you look at an average medium/large free standing wood stove the nominal output is only 9 kilowatts. If you open the damper you might produce a little more heat, but at a cost, most of the energy in the wood will go straight up the flue. If you wanted to effectively heat 300 metres with wood you would need and open floor plan and one hell of a big stove (that would probably be unbearable to be near), or multiple units.

sapper

I have a question for everybody who has answered this thread did you ever go on a website in Uk talking about wood and woodburners? get a life and a proper heating system .

correveidile

Box fans are the best for this. Put them in the cold room at floor level and move the cold air to the hot room. This seems to be a lot more effective than pumping the heated air.

sapper

Exaclty my point . Its localised heating of a room or nearly a room I am not knocking it i love it but its ornamental even at 12 Kilo watts. I think the only way to heat the house with wood would be to set fire to the house.
I have a energy efficient house but at this size i would have less time than a stoker on the Titanic if i tried to heat with Wood. Its dusty ,timeconsuming, uncontrolable. But i love it, does not heat the house though, and never can unless i put a wood burner in each room

sapper

Its called central heating

correveidile

Is your idea of a proper heating system is one that relies on the tyrannical regimes of the Middle East or the speculation of the parasites of the world's money markets? Personally I'd rather see my hard earned cash go to the hard working small man in Spain, rather than it be wasted by rogue states on their war machines.

Mitzyboy

Blimey!

We were only talking about wood and look whats happened

sapper

Well when you next have your wood delivered next or go to collect it insist it is by Buro .When you next put petrol in your chain saw or lubricate the blade use olive oil it will last 2 seconds. We have gone too far down the road No pun intended to live a life on a mountain scratching a living out of the land thats why the spanish sold us these plots and left to have a better life.I keep telling you i love the burner ,i love the life here but i am not freezing to death trying to convince myself that a woodburner will heat a house it wont. Or that if i use wood Iraq or Saudi Arabia will become a democracy. It will heat one room effectively the rest of the house is freezing .If you want to discuss the merits of charcoal table heaters well now you are talking.
I use no artificial heat from april to end sept relying totally on solar for hot water, we all do our bit. I think that mitigates my 19 litres of oil per week average or equivelant 16 euros per week average.
I was born in Lancashire you could not see a finger in front of you in the 50s/60s when people burned coal .That was what brought out the clean air act..

sapper

Wood you believe it

Mitzyboy

My wood burner heats the whole of the house

sapper

I knew it wood

betris

Take the marajuana leaves off the wood before you burn it

sapper

i lived in a woodburner, and when we got ome our dad used to beat us .You were lucky .We ad an open fire without wood, and when we got ome our dad used to beat us wi his belt .You were lucky. We ad no fire in fact we ad no house and when we got ome our dad used to beat us wit stove pipe from next doors woodburner .They were lucky they ad a woodburner it used to heat thole ouse .Well not thole ouse bit in front of it .Their dad never beat them he was to knackered fetchin wwood to feed it

betris

I think I know him .was his name mr alan.his nick name was woody.I dont know what became of him.he moved to america

poshnbucks

Scampi you don't have a holiday home in the middle of the Amazon rain forest do you, The is a rather large area of missing wood there