Care to do the maths?, Take away the gas, leccy and coal.............................

[Gizmo]

(22 June 2013, 08:44)Scythe13 Wrote: I hate to sound like a smartarse, but I seem to be good at it.

Although storing more wood and other fuels does seem a logical solution to our problem, may I suggest an alternative, similar in thought process to the different lifestyle and insulation HL is speaking about.

Your alternatives are all well and good and of course you would minimize your use of fuel as that is just common sense

What you cant get away from though is the fact that if you are using wood as your main source of heat, cooking, boiling water etc then you will use a lot more wood than you may realise, which I think was the original point Northern Raider was making.

Until you live with an open fire or stove day in and day out most people don't realise how much wood they consume even just to heat one room. All that wood has to be collected, then cut, then split, then seasoned, and trust me it is time consuming and hard work.

People who see it as being easy probably haven't tried it in real life.

For all the hard work involved though, I would say that my stove (along with my water filter) is undoubtedly the best investment I have made in the event of tshtf