wood heat and cooking

[Moony]

Anyone here who heats their home and cook on wood/solid fulled cooker give some idea of the costs of doing so per year ? Obviously not if you get it all yourself free, but if you get wood delivered ready to use. We had open fires many years ago but I guess prices have changed alot since then.

[preppingsu]

We currently have our wood supplied by a very nice man who works for another organisation so for him it is his beer money. We get a truck load of unseasoned wood for £60. But it has to be split and seasoned so everything we got over the last few months is for next winter. Now our truck load is much more than you would get from a log man selling seasoned wood. We reckon 1/2 of what we get is worth between £80-£100 as seasoned wood, a lot depends on demand I guess.
There is very little free wood nowadays as many people have wood burners for heating.

We only burn for heat at the moment. I guess the cost is dependent on how much you burn.....as I say to my kids, put on another jumper!!!!

(sorry, there was a lot of guesses in that answer.. )

[jansman]

I get a small amount of wood for nothing, but to be honest I find it easier( as I get older) to get it delivered. Last years burning season, which for us is mid - September to early June. So roughly 10 mths. We only use our central heating in the EXTREME cold. It plays hell with my asthma. So our multifuel stove is our primary heat source in our terraced house. We are well insulated too with good quality glazing.
So how much? Coal for that period was £350 and wood about £150. A little carries over to the following season. So it works out about £10 aweek. This may or may not be economical for your circumstances, but it suits us.

For us solid fuel is RELIABLE. That is the attraction for us. It takes a little work, and as you get into burning you will get SOME free wood-in fact you start to develop an eye for it
We get our wood mainly from our coal merchant, and he looks after us as we take a worthwhile load at a time.

[Moony]

ty for the replies, thinking the next place i move to might be more suited to wood fuelled living, or I might get a woodburner for this house. Although I did just shell out £2,500 on a new boiler just 12 months ago, so it might not be a good idea cash wise..

[BristolDave]

My parents have a wood burner. They get 1 tonne of coal per year for around £350. Dad collects wood during the year, so that is free. He tries to get old wood from skips etc as that is already seasoned and people are usually pleased to be rid of it.

They tend to use 2:1 wood to coal - the coal burns for longer but is expensive.

BD