Scotland bans wood stoves😱

[ladycrofter]

Just wondering how many of my fellow teuchters know about this? Wood is our only source of heat and hot water. Any renovations would include same. Plus oil.
A heat pump wouldn't keep the bathroom warm, much less the whole house. I used to live near Memphis; they tried them there and it didn't work! And they're noisy as hell.
You couldn't make it up.

 

[dun tilling]

Existing wood burners are not affected, just as well, we are wood only heating here.

 

[M-J-G]

It's all part of taking away freedom, Hamza Useless wants to take away the freedom to speak, now they force the use of electricity on everyone without alternatives so that your light, travel, heat and ability to feed yourself are under control, it's happening everywhere, but Scotland seem to be in a rush.

 

[grainboy]

Can’t really see how they could police it,

 

[beardface]

It's all part of taking away freedom, Hamza Useless wants to take away the freedom to speak, now they force the use of electricity on everyone without alternatives so that your light, travel, heat and ability to feed yourself are under control, it's happening everywhere, but Scotland seem to be in a rush.

100% control is what most governments want now. People are too busy becoming social media morons to notice.

 

[M-J-G]

Can’t really see how they could police it,

Stop the sales of them and not have open chimneys in new builds or renovations.

They have already passed regs for buliding warrants to only be passed where a building has "clean" heating, meaning gas and oil boilers aren't an option.

 

[oil barron]

It’s not just wood. Anything that burns is banned from new builds. Which just means you will have to get your building warrant signed off before installing your boiler which means all boilers now won’t be inspected.

driven by this knob who doesn’t have a heat pump because they are ugly.

Patrick Harvie admits that heat pumps look like an 'ugly big grey box'

The Scottish Greens co-leader says in the future heat pumps will become 'something that looks like it belongs in your home'... but he still wants Scots to fork out thousands of pounds for one as soon as possible

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk

 

[HatsOff]

Just wondering how many of my fellow teuchters know about this? Wood is our only source of heat and hot water. Any renovations would include same. Plus oil.
A heat pump wouldn't keep the bathroom warm, much less the whole house. I used to live near Memphis; they tried them there and it didn't work! And they're noisy as hell.
You couldn't make it up.

It is only for new builds.

 

[oil barron]

It is only for new builds.

Or any house mod that requires planning permission. Basically you can’t get a boiler if you need a building warrant signed off.

 

[HatsOff]

Or any house mod that requires planning permission. Basically you can’t get a boiler if you need a building warrant signed off.

I don't know how the Scottish building warrant system works but in England you don't have to retrospectively bring anything up to latest regulations unless you actually affect them. For some things you don't even have to meet new regulations but just make them better than they were before.

 

[oil barron]

I don't know how the Scottish building warrant system works but in England you don't have to retrospectively bring anything up to latest regulations unless you actually affect them. For some things you don't even have to meet new regulations but just make them better than they were before.

The way I understand it is they won’t make you rip out a boiler if you are putting in an extension, but you wouldn’t be able to have a new one in a new extension or if you changed the layout of the house with PP

 

[hoff135]

Pretty much aligns with the thread I posted last week, the noose is tightening, piece by piece they are chipping away everything people do to make a life, especially in rural areas.

 

[George Mitchell]

How about just f**king put one in anyway, and burn the dirtiest, wettest, smokiest old timber you can, and give the tyrants the middle finger like anyone with wit would do. Civil disobedience is called for

 

[hoff135]

How about just f**king put one in anyway, and burn the dirtiest, wettest, smokiest old timber you can, and give the tyrants the middle finger like anyone with wit would do. Civil disobedience is called for

Quite agree, they have exceeded their remit by a long way

 

[oil barron]

How about just f**king put one in anyway, and burn the dirtiest, wettest, smokiest old timber you can, and give the tyrants the middle finger like anyone with wit would do. Civil disobedience is called for

I joked with my brother a few years ago when this was being talked about, what are they going to do form a “Reeky Lumb” police.

 

[hoff135]

I joked with my brother a few years ago when this was being talked about, what are they going to do form a “Reeky Lumb” police.

Reeky lumb and hate crime officer

 

[oil barron]

Reeky lumb and hate crime officer

Aye Geordie, your Lumbs reeking and you called Wullie a poof at the pub last weekend. You’d better come down to the station

 

[kiwi pom]

I'd hate to have a house that just relied on wood for heat and hot water.
I do like my log burner (doesn't do water) but if I built a new house, I don't think I'd bother. Two heat pump/AC units here, wouldn't be without either of them.

Trying to stop smoky old fires how very dare they, they're after our freedoms you know

 

[neilo]

Just wondering how many of my fellow teuchters know about this? Wood is our only source of heat and hot water. Any renovations would include same. Plus oil.
A heat pump wouldn't keep the bathroom warm, much less the whole house. I used to live near Memphis; they tried them there and it didn't work! And they're noisy as hell.
You couldn't make it up.

Maybe heat pumps have improved since then? Cottage has one here and it is almost silent, even when standing next to it.

Expensive heating when it’s cold and there’s little sun for solar, like much of Scotland in the winter…

 

[kiwi pom]

Maybe heat pumps have improved since then? Cottage has one here and it is almost silent, even when standing next to it.

Expensive heating when it’s cold and there’s little sun for solar, like much of Scotland in the winter…

I can understand them getting rid of coal and then wood in new builds, but it seems like oil and gas are a no no too, which seems a little premature to me.