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A Burning Question...

JamesJames
edited November 2007 in Local discussion
Does anyone know where we could buy wood for our fire?
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  • poxypoxy
    edited 3:22PM
    There's a timber yard on Fairbridge Road. It may be worth trying there for firewood.
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  • AliAli
    edited 3:22PM
    Think we are smokless Zone which came in after the Grta London Smogs of the 50s.

    I think you suuposed to use a smokeless fuel such as Coalite.

    Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956
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  • mattmatt
    edited November 2007
    We're also after a good, local supplier of smokeless fuel. Bizarrely enough, I keep meaning to try Woody's. They have a lot of fuels just inside the front door. I'll let you know when i go there later.
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  • ColetteColette
    edited 3:22PM
    I'm suffering from fireplace envy.
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  • mattmatt
    edited November 2007
    Sorry Colette! It seems Woody's only do BBQ fuel, so the best I've found for a 10kg bag of Big K smokeless fire fuel: Londis Ferme Park Road £3.99 Last Stop Service Station £4.99 Take a car or something, because I've just carried one back with some small shopping and it wasn't fun! Both places also sell bags of wood/logs. The law is in your hands!
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  • JamesJames
    edited 3:22PM
    Cheers all.

    Carried some back from a service station on holloway road - I suspect I may have broken my back...

    Rather strangely the terms of our leasehold say we're only allowed to burn wood...
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  • DavidDavid
    edited 3:22PM
    I had a wood burner when I lived in Kings Cross. Perfectly legal. I think the smokeless fuel thing doesn't include wood. Not sure how that works but you can burn stuff in London for sure.
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  • AliAli
    edited 3:22PM
    I still don't think you can leggaly but am not sure.

    There is loads about this on

    http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/smoke_control/index.php

    Harringey is smoke control zone and wood is not on the approved list of fuels.

    It all goes back to the great smogs in Lonodn in the 1950s
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  • ColetteColette
    edited 3:22PM
    I'm pretty sure you can't burn wood in a domestic dwelling. But then again I doubt anyone is really going to stop you.
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  • DavidDavid
    edited January 2008
    Maybe its just smokeless fuels then. Though I am ashamed (if its illegal) to admit i've burnt wood quite merrily in an old flat in Kings Cross _(Remember the woodburner in the corner, Andy?)_ There's a whole raft of various smokeless fuels for sale all stacked up outside Londis on Ferme Park.
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  • AliAli
    edited 3:22PM
    love all the google adds that come up on the left when you access this. trying to sell us Woodburning stoves we aren't allowed to use !
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  • GilesGiles
    edited 3:22PM
    You can use a wood stove according to <a href="http://www.uksmokecontrolareas.co.uk/index.php">this</a>. But I don't think you can burn wood in an open fire ( just smokeless fuel ).

    Are Pappageno's breaking the law by burning wood in an unauthorized appliance?
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  • ColetteColette
    edited 3:22PM
    No. I think commercial premises can apply for a permit.
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  • mattmatt
    edited 3:22PM
    Great, our fire is a stove rather than an open one. I'll be buying wood next, as this smokless fuel I got last time is so very hard to ignite.
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