Energy profits increase 40%

[Bulletguy]

OfGem is to investigate energy companies after profit margins have soared to 40% through increased price hikes to the consumer. BBC News this morning stated that energy prices had risen dramatically over the past two months.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/8161536/Energy-firms-face-new-Ofgem-inquiry-over-price-rises-and-increased-profits.html

 

 

 

[Guest pelmetman]

Another reason to get a multi fuel log burner :D

[Brian Kirby]

Er, where to get multi fuel logs?  :-)

[Guest pelmetman]

Brian Kirby - 2010-11-26 10:43 AM

 

Er, where to get multi fuel logs?  :-)

 

From the multi fuel log salesman of course!.................................. Sometimes known as a coalman or log man :D

[Bulletguy]

pelmetman - 2010-11-26 10:09 AM

 

Another reason to get a multi fuel log burner :D

Give me one of those over awful gas fires any day......worth every penny.

 

I have an open fire and thankfully live in the 'normal world' which allows me to burn whatever I like.....real coal, wood, logs, and any other rubbish I care to chuck on it. (lol)

If I was not planning on selling up and moving i'd have a log burner in by now.

[Bulletguy]

Brian Kirby - 2010-11-26 10:43 AM

 

Er, where to get multi fuel logs?  :-)

One of the few things left in life which is free if you are lucky. A huge oak tree blew down a few years back near where I live and had to be cut up pretty quick.....but it soon disappeared.

 

Many guys chopping up trees are wise to the fact that some folk have log burners and will often cart the logs off themselves to sell on. If I spot a tree down I have to move in on it pretty damn quick.

 

 

[Brian Kirby]

Bulletguy - 2010-11-26 5:35 PM

Brian Kirby - 2010-11-26 10:43 AM Er, where to get multi fuel logs?  :-)

One of the few things left in life which is free if you are lucky. A huge oak tree blew down a few years back near where I live and had to be cut up pretty quick.....but it soon disappeared. Many guys chopping up trees are wise to the fact that some folk have log burners and will often cart the logs off themselves to sell on. If I spot a tree down I have to move in on it pretty damn quick.

Ah yes, but those logs are not multi fuel, they are single fuel, i.e. wood!  :-D

[Mel B]

I'll stick with my 'flame effect' gas fire thanks! It looks like a normal coal fire, even to the extent that hubby forgot it was gas when we first moved here and threw paper on it! :D

 

It's lovely and soon warms the room up, it has 2 heat settings so once we're up to temperatre we can just turn it down but still have a nice fire flikering away.

 

After many years of cleaning out and having to spend ages starting the coal fire at home as a kid, no way would I wilingly go back to a coal fire in our main lounge, it's much easier to have a gas one, especially when coming in tired from work and all I have to do it light the gas. :-D

[nightrider]

I get my plentyful supply of logs from a mate of mine who is a tree surgeon, having said that they need to dry out for at least a couple of years, freshly cut logs are a waste of time they just produce steam and resin.

[Bulletguy]

Brian Kirby - 2010-11-26 5:47 PM

Ah yes, but those logs are not multi fuel, they are single fuel, i.e. wood!  :-D

A good multi fuel burner will burn either Brian. They can be bought at quite reasonable prices too. Few are single fuel use only as if buying one it makes sense to go for the multi fuel type.

[nightrider]

Those of you with a multi fuel stove for burning logs, how do you process your logs, do you use a bow saw or an axe? hard work.

A Stihl chainsaw and a electric log splitter saves a lot of work, plus it is handy if you have a Triton superjaws to hold your logs while cutting, a slip with a chainsaw can be rather painful.

[hymerwoman]

I also have a coal/log fire. I took out a calor gas fire and replaced it with an open fire 12 years ago and have'nt looked back. Yes it can be a chore with all the cleaning etc but the room is always warm the following day and when visitors call you have to drag them away from standing in front of the fire. Interesting my next door neighbour has just changed his open fire for a calor gas fire and admitted to me that once it is switched off the heat does not stay in the room as long as his coal fire,but he likes the convenience. Each to his own.

[Brian Kirby]

Bulletguy - 2010-11-27 1:06 AM

Brian Kirby - 2010-11-26 5:47 PM

Ah yes, but those logs are not multi fuel, they are single fuel, i.e. wood!  :-D

A good multi fuel burner will burn either Brian. They can be bought at quite reasonable prices too. Few are single fuel use only as if buying one it makes sense to go for the multi fuel type.

It was a joke, that's all.  A reference to multi fuel logs?  David (pelmentan) got it.  Have a look above.  Durrrrrrr!  :-)

[nightrider]

If you have a logburning stove,two handy things to have, a moisture meter for measuring the moisture content of your logs 12% is the ideal burning content anything above that is a waste of time.

Another good thing to have is a flue pipe thermometer this will tell you if your are burning at the correct rate, too low and you are producing resin which will rot your expensive flue pipe, too high and you are in danger of overfiring which will burn out your griddle bars, adjust your controls and you will have the most economical burn.

[Guest pelmetman]

I get lots of off cuts of timber from the business so its free heat, we tend to use the wood more in the autumn, as we just light it in the evening and wood heats the stove up quicker.

 

Now its alight 24/7 we use boiler nuts as they dont produce clinker, and as we only had room for a small stove, we can not put in enough wood to keep it in over night, but with the boiler nuts it will stay alight all night :D

 

Just to give you idea of how efficent it is, I fitted it in our sun lounge which originally had 3 radiators, but with the glass roof they could barely keep the chill of the room 8-) Now we sit nice and snug in an evening heating the sky aswell (lol)

 

Incidentally we also have a gas powered (bottled gas) stove in the lounge which looks like a log burner, we find it works ok but it is noisey :-S and if we used it alot I suspect expensive to run >:-( But we hardly ever use the lounge, just keep it for when the vicar calls, not that he does, now he knows I'm a atheist (lol) (lol) (lol)

[Guest peter]

hymerwoman - 2010-11-27 11:10 AM

 

I also have a coal/log fire. I took out a calor gas fire and replaced it with an open fire 12 years ago and have'nt looked back. Yes it can be a chore with all the cleaning etc but the room is always warm the following day and when visitors call you have to drag them away from standing in front of the fire. Interesting my next door neighbour has just changed his open fire for a calor gas fire and admitted to me that once it is switched off the heat does not stay in the room as long as his coal fire,but he likes the convenience. Each to his own.

Did you know that 90% of the heat from an open fire goes up the chimney and 90% of heat from a log burning stove goes into the room.