Ban on coal and " wet " wood for use in wood burners and fireplaces

[velcrostripes]

Is this taking things a wee bit too far ?House coal and wet wood to be phased out by 2023 to cut pollution
How do you enforce it ?
Anthracite has a distinct smell , but how will they police the burning of wood ?
A lot of people in the countryside , and elderly people in towns too , rely on wood and coal fires .
At 45 pence a litre for fuel oil , so do I , frankly .
There are two wood suppliers in the village ( population 350 ) and we all have the good common sense to know the diff between seasoned and unseasoned wood ( If you don't , you get chimney fires ) .What happens to them ? Let me guess , they will need a licence and their details will be passed on to HMRC as well .
My view is it's a hammer to crack a walnut , frankly

 

[Drazyl]

How do you enforce it ?

Ban it from being sold, that does for household coal. Can't stop people burning their own wood, but a ban on sales will reduce it.

 

[Ex_crab]

My local log man has just given up and retired early. He didn't fancy some jobsworth with a damp meter coming round to test his logs before he could sell them.

 

[velcrostripes]

Stuff them . I've got a chain saw and a pick up . I'll get my own fekkin wood

 

[velcrostripes]

To add , the council round here don't even come out when people are burning mattresses , so I doubt they'll come out to a report of the " wrong sort of wood smoke "

 

[archer]

Well that's going to cause problems for any Biomass unit that burns renewable wood.
Euroforest have opened a new plant near me and I doubt all their logs (tree trunks) are, or ever will be, dried

 

[rebel_with_a_cause]

Always seems to be a ready supply of discarded pallets and the recent storms have left plenty of broken fences.

 

[Cold_Collation]

The fire in my local always spits. Why? Because the idiot of a landlady doesn't take the nails out of that which she burns.

The same with seasoning. If people are going to burn wood, then find ways of making them use the right stuff.

@Ex_crab, far from going out of business, your local log man should have been rubbing his hands with glee at becoming an approved source.

As ever, this will all be done cack-handedly.

 

[AfghanAndy]

Is this taking things a wee bit too far ?House coal and wet wood to be phased out by 2023 to cut pollution
How do you enforce it ?
Anthracite has a distinct smell , but how will they police the burning of wood ?
A lot of people in the countryside , and elderly people in towns too , rely on wood and coal fires .
At 45 pence a litre for fuel oil , so do I , frankly .
There are two wood suppliers in the village ( population 350 ) and we all have the good common sense to know the diff between seasoned and unseasoned wood ( If you don't , you get chimney fires ) .What happens to them ? Let me guess , they will need a licence and their details will be passed on to HMRC as well .
My view is it's a hammer to crack a walnut , frankly

Policed by outlawing it’s sale.

nothing about individuals burning it.

 

[AfghanAndy]

Always seems to be a ready supply of discarded pallets and the recent storms have left plenty of broken fences.

This is the issue. If the pallets not treated then it’s normally seasoned by the time you burn it.

burning fence panels normally results in kreasote and derivatives going up the chimney.

the banning of wet wood shouldn’t be too bad as wet wood isn’t great for burning and cloggs yo your chinney

 

[AfghanAndy]

Well that's going to cause problems for any Biomass unit that burns renewable wood.
Euroforest have opened a new plant near me and I doubt all their logs (tree trunks) are, or ever will be, dried

It’s not till I got a wood burner I realised how many stacks of tree trunks you see in farmers fields ‘seasoning.’

next time your on a motorway you’ll be surprised. It goes on a lot of the time.

 

[Fake Sheikh]

Time to get this out!

She has been to long dry & now she wants to get wet & dirty.

Local wood going to get decimated now!

Oh & please wear full chainsaw ppe as these are not toys & CS30/31 & 32 will help you also!

 

[Helm]

There are lots of new age "pagans" we could start using them in lieu of witches*




*Yes I know hanged in England but go with it.

 

[Bus Pass 01]

Chimney sweeps out of business as a spin off? No more wicked Tories pushing small boy's up chimneys?

 

[Yokel]

What about those of us who live out in the sticks and have coal fires from when the house was built? What is special about this approved coal? Low Carbon?

As for wood, will they ban bonfires?