Food for thought: The variable value of our preps.

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(12 February 2018, 12:08)Easy rider Wrote: If nothing else stocking up will buffer against fuel price hikes in coal timer in future.
Other concerns are that many modern houses have no open fires or chimney so to speek for open fires anymore.

This is a good strategy IMHO. Build up a stockpile and use it to enable you to get through peak demand and then purchase replacement stock less expensively out of season.

Of course there is the important caveat that the backup stock should be stored in such a way as to prevent it spoiling. This applies both to wood and coal.

Re no-chimney houses: You're right. More and more houses are being built without chimneys now, and those that do have them, they are really only good for chinz wood burners. The good news is that those self same houses are by and large built using super lightweight high insulation blocks. So it could be viable to put a suitable micro-multi-fuel stove and steel tube chimney into storeage, and if absolutely necessary to commission it, to chistle a hole through the cheese-quality wall to allow the chimney tube to pass through?