Wood Stove Pollution and PM2.5 Particle Emissions TESTED

Can’t believe a professional installer allowed the stove to be placed where it is. Supposed to be no flammable material within 600 mm! You will get pollutants from the painted surfaces because of the heat!

I have the Hampton 5. Cost approx £600 with delivery and £1000 to have it installed / commissioned. For such a small stove, the room gets extremely toasty. Burn Pine on it that has a moisture level of about 10% and it keeps the downstairs toasty and the upstairs "keeping the living room door open" at about 21 - 22 c. get wood free from work so winner winner.

From a Carbon perspective if you are burning woodcthat would otherwise rot you are not adding more.

You haven't considered your neighbors. Have you done readings outside? I'm in hell from all the smoke in my neighborhood which because of the particles settle breathing level so forget outside walks. Btw, it comes into houses threw roof vents. Doctor says my childhood asthma has developed into early-stage COPD so I am mad as a nonsmoker I shouldn't have it. Btw, I've learned burning wood releases the stored carbon (plus benzene, PAHs, formaldehyde etc) which we don't want to do during climate change. Which you did heat pump or radiant floors.

Before installing the stove inside, start it up outside and make a fire in it for a few days, for example while you prepare the work inside.

I had to write/research a whole paper on wood smoke on the lungs for uni earlier this year and after all that I'm hesitant to even light a candle now

Great video thank you for sharing! Do you continue to monitor PM2.5? I’m very interested to hear what range of concentrations you have observed

If there's flames don't open the door to refill and you'll have no issues with pm2.5 or pm10.

You should put your monitor in the kitchen and see what frying an egg does or worse still cooking a stew…….

I have no problem with requiring low emissions from new wood stoves. I never used to be bothered by the smell of wood smoke and liked it to an extent, but right now in the midwest, we have the worst air quality on the planet from the Canadian wildfire. I'm finding you really can get too much wood smoke. It's f*cking awful. I don't want to smell a fireplace or camp fire for at least six months after this.

So it doesn't make sense for the author to install extra insulation around his house. But he is ok for govt to tax him and spend his money putting extra insulation around his house? It would make sense then?

Asking for govt subsidies is pure genius.

yes, some of the wood used contains scrap wood, that has been pressure treated or plastic coated.
The oil used in milling the wood contains a very large amount of benzine.

My sister lives in rural Durham; in the Winter, a particularly cold & windy place. It’s a good job she has a cast iron duel fuel stove cuz during Storm Arwen, she had no electric for a week. Without it, she’d have frozen.

There is a lot of nonsense around about the dangers of pm2.5 emissions. There is no clinical evidence that they are especially harmful.

Stop with the rubbish about air polution. For centuries woods were burned and there is no polution, and now the criminal goverment washed your brain with lies in order to control you, to make your life miserable etc. Here I give you 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

When opening a stove to re fuel open the door 1/2 inch and wait a few seconds for the velocity to climb and clear the stove then open the door slowly not to drag smoke into the room , the stove will smell and produce smoke ( enough to set a smoke detectors off ) when you first commision it , ventilate first few fires .

its too close to the curtains and the door frame