Energy price rises

[RobbieGong]

Never ending all this - Austerity, yearly fare rises, yearly fuel hikes, Endownments went down the toilet, Pensions are worthless, Global financial crisis, no pay rises in four years for the public sector etc etc etc - The system isn't working !!! Nothing really gets better, Quote Bob Marley from 'Them Belly Full' Natty Dread lp " Cost of living get so high, rich n poor they start to cry ............. (And that was back in 1974)

[SPS]

Prices were cut ? Did I miss that ? Well we are all in this together !

Does anyone here have a wood burning stove ? Might be time to invest in one , another hard winter on the cards .

yes i got one fitted last year, its the best thing i've done in a long time, it took a couple of months to get used to it but to sit in a room and open the windows as its too warm when there's snow on the ground is quite something

our house was alway cold, i fitted under floor insulation at the same time what a difference that has made.

I have a chainsaw and a few trees that are now well pruned, or you need a cheap suppy of logs and places to dry them, but its a nice feeling having a couple of years heating stored in a shed..

we still have the central heating for the upstairs, ours has an upstairs and downstairs circuit so it works well with the stove.
highly recomended...

[Welder]

We’re using wood burning stoves in Catalonia.
There are five in total, three of which are in constant use over the winter months.
Where we are, it costs around one hundred and thirty Euros to have delivered one ton of wood cut to a suitable size. On average, the house, granny flat etc consumes five tones a year.
There is about eight acres of woodland consisting primarily of the local quick grow oak and pine on the farm which is apparently easily enough to managed as a sustainable wood source for the above consumption.
It took me about twenty hours to fell, strip and cut one ton of wood last month.

[chris@panteg]

yes i got one fitted last year, its the best thing i've done in a long time, it took a couple of months to get used to it but to sit in a room and open the windows as its too warm when there's snow on the ground is quite something

our house was alway cold, i fitted under floor insulation at the same time what a difference that has made.

I have a chainsaw and a few trees that are now well pruned, or you need a cheap suppy of logs and places to dry them, but its a nice feeling having a couple of years heating stored in a shed..

we still have the central heating for the upstairs, ours has an upstairs and downstairs circuit so it works well with the stove.
highly recomended...

,
Thanks for that , we are hoping to get one installed soon , it's been a long time coming , my wife is determined to get it sorted , it's worth the hassle I think .

[aquapiranha]

Just fitted a new multi-fuel stove a couple of weeks ago. It is a Stanley Oisin. It is very much better than the one it replaced and was relatively cheap at £500 including flue and adapter. We still have quite a bit of peat that we lifted off the mountain last year and access to an almost limitless supply of wood plus we have coal too. The hob and the mock coal fire in the other lounge both run on bottled LPG. Of course, we also have oil (kerosene) which runs the central heating and hot water too if we want it. Don't talk to me about expensive fuel!

[Ali Tait]

We’re using wood burning stoves in Catalonia.
There are five in total, three of which are in constant use over the winter months.
Where we are, it costs around one hundred and thirty Euros to have delivered one ton of wood cut to a suitable size. On average, the house, granny flat etc consumes five tones a year.
There is about eight acres of woodland consisting primarily of the local quick grow oak and pine on the farm which is apparently easily enough to managed as a sustainable wood source for the above consumption.
It took me about twenty hours to fell, strip and cut one ton of wood last month.

Nice to see you around again John, hope you and yours are well.

[NRG]

Generate your own energy Put a pv solar system on your roof
5grand for a 4kwp installed system
Never get a bill again in your life

Balls!

[Rare Bird]

Get used to it, 'look after number one'...it's a selfish world these days....It pains me to say this but that's what it's come to...

[Reid Malenfant]

Generate your own energy Put a pv solar system on your roof
5grand for a 4kwp installed system
Never get a bill again in your life

& what happens when the sun don't shine?

IE it's night time

Are you going to suggest a shit load of huge lead acid cells to generate 230V 50Hz from?

NiCd? Whatever, these need serious maintenance & don't last forever, they cost a bomb & will need replacing maybe every ten years or less...


Nice try

[SPS]

Must say I did think of going the solar panel route, it all sounds too good be true, a bit like endowment mortgage in the 80's...

The ones with the longest guarantee are the expensive German made ones .... And they are only 15 years, a lifetime of service from a chinese panel seems rather unlikely , but you never know. ..