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Really? Where do you get all that wood from? I'm surprised houses regularly even have wooden stoves.
Wood isn't an issue around here. A Eucalyptus or pine tree will be 80-100 ft tall by about 15 years, and they spread very easily.
There was still a horse paddock at my school when I was a kid, but was it seldom used by then. A generation earlier saw many children riding to school. At a school reunion a few years ago, there was a photo of kids from one family (from the 1920s), riding bullocks to school -I had to laugh at that one, especially as they were all wearing hayseed hats.
Yes I know wood comes from forests, but I also know wood is heavy, and to heat up a house, you need a lot of wood, which first has to be chopped. Then the wood has to be stacked somewhere, as firewood and water doesn't mix well. All this is time-consuming work. I've done that.
So do you have a "wood man" that delivers it at your front door, or do you go to the forest, buy a tree and chop it up?
I've got a few acres of self seeded Eucalyptus and Acacia trees, but aren't able to to use them, as the trees that fall over the driveway in an average year are sufficient. People that live in town would pay $400-600 a winter for wood, which is comparable to electricity bills for heating.
Why would you need it to be 29C inside the house in the middle of winter? It gets that hot in our house on our 40C days with the A/C on about 3/4 power and even then it is a sweat fest.
20C is comfortable enough. I don't think I could actually get my place up to 29C in the middle of winter with the heater on full blast
C'mon man I thought you were a mildie, 29C indoors is not terrible.
I knew poeple who set their thermostat to 82F in winter, have not seen them since they moved to Honolulu.
Yes I know wood comes from forests, but I also know wood is heavy, and to heat up a house, you need a lot of wood, which first has to be chopped. Then the wood has to be stacked somewhere, as firewood and water doesn't mix well. All this is time-consuming work. I've done that.
So do you have a "wood man" that delivers it at your front door, or do you go to the forest, buy a tree and chop it up?
Here in Altea the elder people exaggerates too much when the "winter" comes (for they is the winter, they have grown up in this climate) and the old houses have traditional stoves.
Yes, they use the stove every single day during 3 months, even if it's a warmer winter day with 22-23ºC of high and a low of 12-13ºC, it doesn't matter, they will put the stove as it's winter. I'm not joking.
Then you can see a cooler rainy April day which is all cloudy or rainy with a high of 18ºC and a low of 12ºC but they won't use it. Instead they use it on a 23ºC January day. Curious.
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