Burning Issue

Burning wood, coal or waste in homes and gardens - what are your views?



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I can’t find anything online about the planned research meeting in Hindley, so it seems you have to complete the survey and then give your contact details to learn more.

Air pollution from domestic burning:

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Wigan Council Smoke Webpages:

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I burn wood and smokeless coal in a stove. I shall continue to do so, regardless!

But ....... only when it's cowd!

We don’t burn wood or smokeless coal, but have a neighbour that does, Tonker, which vexes me as it stinks, not to mention the health issues.

I’ve just read - www.theecoexperts.co.uk:

• Log burners produce 465 times more toxic air pollution than gas boilers

Yes, jo anne, but there's a lot more than 465 gas boilers to every 1 wood-burner in the UK. Tha'sees!

Is your neighbour burning pallets? or tyres?

Not that I know of, Tonker, they’ve got a store of logs.

We have a neighbour who burns coal and I kinda like it, The smell reminds me of yesteryear , His house is in its original state of the 1960,s because its only one house. its not unpleasant and, I would't say toxic, He's an old guy about 80 ish and no ones gonna persuade him not to,

I like the smell of burning wood, and coal, as long as long as there is not too much smoke with it

Going back to coal fire days, when we used firewood, and firewood was made from old railway sleepers which were soaked in oil and other stuff, which trains had dripped on them for years, when the fire was burning the wood and the coal was just starting to burn, the thick acrid smoke which was coming off the fire, I thought at the time, how many poisons were in such smoke, and if the fire blew back and you got a whiff of that smoke, it smelled really awful

When I worked for BR sleepers were soaked for years in vast tanks of creosote before use.

Creosote is inflammable

jo anne

Wood for burning on stoves should be less than 20% moisture content. Too many people burn wood that has not been dried and don't have the chimney or flue swept regularly. Some will burn anything they can get hold of.

And some wont

And wood which has a high moisture content, does not give off a lot of heat, because the energy in the wood is being used to evaporate the moisture in the wood,, which then goes up the chimney

Reet, get this, all this 'clean air' and 'emission control' moneymaking game them men are playing at .......
Today, I was talking to an old friend of mine who is quite big in tyres.
Cancer was mentioned, with reference to a couple of other friends/acquaintances who have passed away recently and another who has survived due to extensive very invasive surgery. Anyroadup, I said "there's something in the air", and it went on from there. Something 'in the air'.
Then he tells me, all the old tyres, millions of 'em, are all packed into large cubes and sent to India, who get paid to accept them. Then, they burn them to fuel Indian power stations!
And, still on tyres, he tells me about 'tyre particles' (what wear off tyres) all float into the atmosphere and have been found in the lungs of people who have died of lung diseases, not to mention fish and animals!

We're all doomed!

And were paying for the right to be killed well done tories

Joanne, we have a farm next door virtually (in Hindley) and the stuff they burn stinks to high heaven.

We had a neighbour who used a fire pit and after they had used it our car was always covered in white ashSometimes in the summer months the flames where that high you at 1st thought their house was on fire with flames 15-20 ft up into the air.