Gas Heaters v Wood Heaters

[vindictive666]

what do you think

i was just perusing the prices ect for those gas log heaters and the prices wow
$2000 and onwards plus flue and installation (i like the gas log heaters)

compared to $699 and upwards but they seem to be nowhere near the cost of a enviromently friendly gas heater (i have reticulated gas (a Gas cooking top))
plus flue and installaton it seems to me no wonder on why people still choose the old wood heaters as far as costs are concerned :)

i really cant justify a heater anyway doesnt really get that freezing cold :)

what are your thoughts ? i would think that if we wanted to go enviro friendly youd think theyd do the pricing the other way around ?
ive seen them do it for solar water heaters save water shower heads ect ect

remember this is not a rave post just a friendly invitation for comments.

[ving]

we have one of those halogen ones at the mo. its so bright you can use it as a search light!
we are going for a gas heater. during winter we get temps bellow 0, sometimes down to -3 or -4...

[ballaratdragons]

Only have bottled gas out here and gas heaters chew those up too fast! Plus, lots of bush around here for wood. Pay $12 for a permit and head off with the chainsaw, load up the trailer and the boot. And wood heaters are cheaper to buy.

[mch62]

Read an article in choice mag a couple of years ago about heating cost and the ranking in order of decreasing running cost was reverse cycle airconditioning then gas depending on mains or bottled then slow combustion wood , with other electric heating types in between some where depending on design and open fire places right down the bottom.
The slow combustion wood heating was based on commercial wood cost but if you can get your wood free or cheaply this will change.

[slice of heaven]

Reverse cycle heating is the cheapest heating .
Reverse cycle air con is not the cheapest climate control though.Reverse cycle cooling is expensive to run.
Evap air con for cooling and natural gas for heating combined together gives you the most economical option for climate control.

[mch62]

Only going by the experts from the magazine , and not sure what the paremeters where but as far as the evaporator cooling goes good out west but usless with humidity.

[slice of heaven]

Forgot about what you have to suffer with up there.We wouldnt have any more than 5 days a year..and thats pushing it...where the evap cant cope.

[acropolite]

I've got a heat pump, Queenslanders would know them as them reverse cycle Air conditioners. It gets cold here in Tas although out west in Sydney at night the temps can drop lower than here, but Sydney days are usually warmer. I've got a nice gas coal grate fire for effect which gets turned on half a dozen times each winter. The heat pump uses about 100 recession riddled buckaziods of power per month but heats the whole house. Wood heaters are not environmentally friendly, they pollute especially when damped down. Lonny has, for six months of the year, the worst air quality in the country, mostly because of wood heaters and to a lesser extent forestry regeneration burnoff.

[tornado33]

Hi all
I am NOT a fan of wood burning heaters of any kind as the darn things put out smoke, that while each individual heater once up to temetrature is not too smokey, when everyone starts them up in winter and the wind is calm with a temperature inversion, the smoke is everywhere, last night after taking a pic of NGC 5128 I packed it in, the sky was just too light, the smoke particles acting as condensation nuclei causing fog to form, I could smell lots of woodsmoke in the air too. In a small town north of Newcastle called Gloucester every 2nd house has a wood fire because the firewood is cheap, on calm nights one can hardly breathe outside, must be a nightmare for asthmatics.
Scott

[Librarian64]

I have ducted gas heating and wouldn't swap it for any other heating method. It heats my whole house fairly evenly. It costs a bit every year but it's worth every penny. It was -5 in Young last week!!!

[asimov]

I'm friendly with the farmers around my area, I just finished borrowing a mates tandem trailer & went out and picked up 3 tons of mallee stumps.....nothing like having a heap of smoke travelling across your FOV for an added bit of contrast on jupiter!

[entilzah]

u should try living in launceston in tassie u can see tyhe wood smoke in the air its like living in a perminant bush fire