Stove for greenhouse?

[Peter]

A tongue in cheek criticism.

Snadger, this coal burning is not very green or carbon neutral is it.

You'll have to take on another plot to "carbon-offset", plant it with willow and or hazel and coppice it, burn that in your stove and you'll be carbon neutral, laying down as much wood each year as you burn. Second thoughts, take on ten full plots for coppice, that might keep up on a ten year coppice rotation.


Sorry.

[Snadger]

Snadger, this coal burning is not very green or carbon neutral is it.

You'll have to take on another plot to "carbon-offset", plant it with willow and or hazel and coppice it, burn that in your stove and you'll be carbon neutral, laying down as much wood each year as you burn. Second thoughts, take on ten full plots for coppice, that might keep up on a ten year coppice rotation.


Sorry.

Coal mining is a thing of the past round our neck of the woods, so I have to do my bit for the small business enterprises and keep a few men in work! Might be simpler to sink my own shaft at the bottom of the lottie, surrounded by coppicing of course!
Anyway, using coal is no different to using electric from a coal fed power station or paraffin/propane/gas which are fossil fuel based?
Burning scrap wood or chipboard is better than using it for landfill!

[jools]

Snadger, do you need to heat the whole greenhouse? If you insulated with bubble wrap and made a partition with bubblewrap, then a paraffin heater in, say, half of the greenhouse, may be enough.
Jools

[Peter]

.....Anyway, using coal is no different to using electric from a coal fed power station or paraffin/propane/gas which are fossil fuel based?....

Mostly, except they have to scrub the smoke to remove stuff.

Touche, by all means generate mining jobs, bigest waste of resource in the UK ignoring all our coal.

[nick the grief]

........Just liked the look of the pot bellied job ...........!

I'll send you a foto of Mrs Grief

[Peter]

I'll send you a foto of Mrs Grief

Nick, if you do not already employ a food taster, get one, now.

[rustylady]

I wouldn't even consider heating a greenhouse on a lottie that you couldn't get to at least twice a day. Me (alias scrooge) won't even heat the greenhouse in the garden. Anyything tender gets started and nurtured indoors until it is ready to stand up for itself.

[nick the grief]

Nick, if you do not already employ a food taster, get one, now.

no need Peter - I do all the cooking


Ow - he he hello dear didn't see you there .... no not again not the pineapple aaaaasrrrrggggghhhh

[Peter]

no need Peter - I do all the cooking


Ow - he he hello dear didn't see you there .... no not again not the pineapple aaaaasrrrrggggghhhh

Rough end was it Nick?

[dwrudd]

Hi Snadger,

Don't listen to them , I think its a great idea. The problem of the fire burning down just gives an opportunity for lateral thinking.

If you can find some old cast piping to make the flue, and make it as long as possible, perhaps a gentle slope the length of the greenhouse, this will heat up and keep the warmth for quite some time, also stick a few stones into the bottom of it and they will store the heat also.

I wish I had an 8x12 to try this. Good luck
Darren

[Snadger]

Hi Snadger,

Don't listen to them , I think its a great idea. The problem of the fire burning down just gives an opportunity for lateral thinking.

If you can find some old cast piping to make the flue, and make it as long as possible, perhaps a gentle slope the length of the greenhouse, this will heat up and keep the warmth for quite some time, also stick a few stones into the bottom of it and they will store the heat also.

I wish I had an 8x12 to try this. Good luck
Darren

Thanks Darren! I thought about zig zagging the flue to give a bigger surface area and more heat!
Going to lottie tomorrow where I'll hopefully be able to see Billy about this calor bottle stove! I've also booked Monday & Tuesday off work so I should have four days solid to knock nine bells out of stove/lottie/greenhouse!