Thread: You'll pay it off in five years

I've bought a metre of wood before, Shane. That's a cubic metre. Not a linear metre. It's a fair bit of wood.

Truck rims, now there's a thought. Thanks Pedro. I have three Inter rims in the back yard and five on the truck.

I've been pricing replacement burners. $1,900 installed was the latest price.

The thing that got me was the fellow making a bold statement "It's a five star, you'll pay it off in five years with the gas savings over a two star." without understanding or knowing my heating habits. I'm assuming he assumed my heater is in 24/7 and I liked a hot house. I do know people that do this.

Gas is cheap, it's the connection fee that's expensive.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I put an older one in Port Fairy for some cool older dudes ( Mum and Dad) It was a freeby when I made my offices. It died a few years later. The new one is much better Mick. Less gas, heats up much better and much quieter to boot.

Find out what size you need, buy it from the cheapest then pay the plumber to connect it. Takes about an hour tops assuming your ducking is in good nick.

I think I picked up the second unit for about 1200-1500 in melb after shopping around a bit.

Yep. I'll be getting just the burner unit. I've got good ducks
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and ducts.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

You guys must live on your own heavily tree'd acreage. Your not really allowed to cut/collect firewood any longer. And if you do, remember, it'll be green, so you will need to wait a couple of years before you can start burning it

seeya
shane L.

We do live on decent size rural block and planted plenty of trees thirty years ago that now lend themselves to pruning and/or removal as necessary to keep a constant supply of fire wood. Also Mallee is a timber that will burn green. I agree with you that timber collection/cutting does have an associated cost even if you are not paying for the actual wood.


Cheers, Mick.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

You guys must live on your own heavily tree'd acreage. Your not really allowed to cut/collect firewood any longer. And if you do, remember, it'll be green, so you will need to wait a couple of years before you can start burning it

seeya
shane L.

Yes you are , but they are at specific times and only in designated area's.

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Wood heating all the way,you cant beat a decent fire,and the smell of woodsmoke in winter,especially jarrah is awesome.
I didnt have to go out to the bush to cut wood last year,shouldnt have to this year either.I was given a few thousand old jarrah and wandoo fence posts,over 100 years old,mostly rotten off at ground level.I have a jig which I put 4 or 5 in and cut up with the chainsaw.
We get plenty of trees at work,so no real need to get out to the forrest,however there is nothing better I enjoy is a trip out to the bush to let the chainsaws run wild,especially the big one,Husky XP3120
Andrew

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

You guys must live on your own heavily tree'd acreage. .....

seeya
shane L.

900 acres, 75% treed.

John

Perhaps I was looking at the rain outside

I'm with shane on this one. Reverse cycle A/C is the way to go. We had our whole house ducted for 7G. Its warm. Failing that I have a spare Rinnai Gas heater around here somewhere. If I can find it you can have it. Also a great home heater.