@NJones 2649 wrote:
You can find out which appliances are exempt from DEFRA’s site at: Appliances – Defra, UK I don’t think the cost is much more than standard burners but the difference is these have been tested and approved. I believe you also need to ensure your burner is installed to meet certain guidelines and that the local authority recommends that a HETAS registered installer puts the burner in, or at least checks over the installation and issues a HETAS compliance certificate. Find a HETAS installer here: HETAS Find Installer Solid Fuel Biomass Registered Installations
I can’t comment on comparison of costs, but due to their rising popularity depreciation costs probably aren’t as high as 20%. You can pick up New DEFRA approved wood burners on ebay for around £350.
Cool, the depreciation cost is what Iwas approximating the lifetime of the product as that’s an added cost per year so to speak.
So rough start up costs a minimum of 450 (guessing that it’ll cost another 100 to get it installed.) then zero.
So that’s about 90 quid per year for first 5 years, plus the cost of wood (in terms of sustainablity that would involve the cost of planting tree each year for a more than adequate renewable supply.)
Depending on how the carbon waste is then stored this certainly seems a good idea as long as there is a more than adequate planting of trees this could effectively reduce carbon from the atmosphere.