I intend one day on making the OP very happy although not deliberately. A rocket fire. Burn wood with only an exhaust not a chimney. 10% of the wood for the same amount of heat. Well its hard fetching wood with bicycle trailer and I am getting old!
I have a bit of an obsession with rocket stoves, or rocket mass heaters. However I'm not sure how British house insurers would handle the idea! Tell us if you get one, I would be fascinated.
Try finding a local joinery shop or timber yard with a pellet maker .
I think Timbmet is fairly local to you .
Basically they use the saw dust produced for the business to make the pellets and then use these to heat the workshop . Fairly carbon neutral despite the rantings above
My local joiner shop sells them for around £100 per pallet , no idea of shipping costs . They are called Timbawood/ Timbalite (
http://timbalite.com/ ) if youre interested in getting a quote .
Well this is how it's supposed to work - waste local wood and unusable sawdust and chippings being made into heat. But alas, it's become a wasteful international bunfight, hence the "rantings". If you can get it local, all to the good, but if you convert to pellets and then the local supply dries up... not so much.
[QUOTE 3430512, member: 9609"]yes, but what's it called in the real world, I know it as a bleazer but that is looking like it is just local dialect.
and yes, a newspaper (supported by the dust pan) is the proper way of doing it, trouble is it occasionally will turn brown then burst into flames with burning bits of burning paper floating around the living room - i will get a pictire of my home made one later - they're brilliant for getting fires going.[/QUOTE]
This happened to me once. Shoved the blazing paper into the fireplace with a scream (I was about 14 at the time). I guess a "bleazer" sort of temporarily reproduces the venting system of a woodstove - much better idea than using bellows too as it is passive - show us a pic! I think I need one of those long blowing tubes for my little cabin stove though - it draws reluctantly on still days and is right down on the floor so uncomfortable to blow at with your chin on the hearth.