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| Thread ID: 103420 | 2009-09-22 09:08:00 | Eco Friendly Fires | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 812799 | 2009-09-22 09:08:00 | Ok I have never understood the Greens entirely but I had to replace my fireplace recently and found all sorts of red tape and regulations prevent me from having what I want . So you're only allowed a "eco" fire now that is open full throttle permanently, so that you can burn would a lot more quickly, requiring more trees to be chopped down to keep the thing going . So when did it become eco friendly to chop down more trees? PS I hear there is a roaring trade going on for conversions back to the uneco state once the council inspector has shot through . |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 812800 | 2009-09-22 09:38:00 | Need to throttle them back so they are still going in the morning. Be a pain in the arse having to relight fire every morning. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 812801 | 2009-09-22 10:28:00 | its to burn it hot so as little smoke as possible is produced. but the rules can be a pain. some areas require them others don't. to get around it simply put a big bit of firewood on rather than small bits. i would be careful modifying them as insurance may not pay out if your place burns down and you have a modded fireplace. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 812802 | 2009-09-22 10:28:00 | Its the smog they create that is the problem when they are shut right down that is the problem apparently. SWMBO used to work at the testing place here in Nelson and they can still be kept in overnight without creating the nasty particles, I know this for a fact. I did some work for the guy that does the testing | gary67 (56) | ||
| 812803 | 2009-09-22 10:47:00 | The stupid thing about the new regulations is the fact that it is the quality of the wood that goes into them that makes the biggest difference. Years ago we put a piece of black Miri 300mm long by 200mm in diameter in an open fire and it lasted for five days and you could lean on the outside of the chimney in a cold southerly and get warm. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 812804 | 2009-09-22 13:04:00 | Ok I have never understood the Greens entirely but I had to replace my fireplace recently and found all sorts of red tape and regulations prevent me from having what I want . So you're only allowed a "eco" fire now that is open full throttle permanently, so that you can burn would a lot more quickly, requiring more trees to be chopped down to keep the thing going . So when did it become eco friendly to chop down more trees? PS I hear there is a roaring trade going on for conversions back to the uneco state once the council inspector has shot through . Ah that was meant to be burn wood of course . |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 812805 | 2009-09-22 20:30:00 | If everybody with a wood fire could agree to burn mangroves in it we might get back our harbours and estuaries in a few years while the slime could go away to live in a deep bit of the sea. Mangrove is a pretty hot burning firewood, so it is not a total waste of space. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 812806 | 2009-09-22 20:39:00 | A friend of mine has a new eco burner, was put in when old one died, the new version is a P.O.S. Cheaply made, hard to get going, poorly assembled, burner interior too small and wrong shape, a really bad design, seems to have been designed and made by an idiot |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 812807 | 2009-09-23 02:56:00 | If everybody with a wood fire could agree to burn mangroves in it we might get back our harbours and estuaries in a few years while the slime could go away to live in a deep bit of the sea . Mangrove is a pretty hot burning firewood, so it is not a total waste of space . There used to be a prominent Auckland rugby player who went by the nickname Mangrove - like the tree, he also had a indiscriminate rooting system . . . . :p |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 812808 | 2009-09-23 03:30:00 | A friend of mine has a new eco burner, was put in when old one died, the new version is a P.O.S. Cheaply made, hard to get going, poorly assembled, burner interior too small and wrong shape, a really bad design, seems to have been designed and made by an idiot And the brand/model is..? A proper warning would be nice. |
Laura (43) | ||
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