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Can anyone recommend a good supplier of logs for my wood burner. Am in karsiyaka.

Thanks.

I use a log supplier from Lapta called Neghat, tel: 05428520621.

Say Steve in Catalkoy gave you the number.

Any recommendations for Esentepe area, type of SEASONED wood plus prices?

Had 2 cubic metres(not Tonnes) from a chap in Yesiltepe.very good 90% hardwood (carob,eucalyptus).Sevat 05428579360.450TL. he also does larger load for 750TL.By the way,he uses same size truck as the ones who allegedly say 2 tonnes.

It would be cheaper to leave all your aircons on hot day and night than pay the crazy prices these guys are asking for wood.

frontalman wrote:It would be cheaper to leave all your aircons on hot day and night than pay the crazy prices these guys are asking for wood.

You may not know just how right you are.

Heat Pumps have a Coefficient of Performance (CoP) of about 3 to 1. That means that for every 1 kW of electricity you consume, you get 3 kW of clean, dry heating. This is because the air around us contains usable heat, given to us by the sun, free. The heat pump absorbs this heat and processes it into the room.

Electricity, unlike all other fuels, has certain benefits.
1. You pay for it in arrears, not in advance.
2. No need to hump it around like gas bottles.
3. No need to find a covered area to store it, like logs.
4. Electricity is always of a known quantity and quality, unlike logs.

TRNCVaughan wrote:

frontalman wrote:It would be cheaper to leave all your aircons on hot day and night than pay the crazy prices these guys are asking for wood.

You may not know just how right you are.

Heat Pumps have a Coefficient of Performance (CoP) of about 3 to 1. That means that for every 1 kW of electricity you consume, you get 3 kW of clean, dry heating. This is because the air around us contains usable heat, given to us by the sun, free. The heat pump absorbs this heat and processes it into the room.

Electricity, unlike all other fuels, has certain benefits.
1. You pay for it in arrears, not in advance.
2. No need to hump it around like gas bottles.
3. No need to find a covered area to store it, like logs.
4. Electricity is always of a known quantity and quality, unlike logs.

And it's great when you have a power cut

Truckload of mixed citrus cut to size 450TL, call 0533 8470144

elizabeth wrote:

TRNCVaughan wrote:

frontalman wrote:It would be cheaper to leave all your aircons on hot day and night than pay the crazy prices these guys are asking for wood.

You may not know just how right you are.

Heat Pumps have a Coefficient of Performance (CoP) of about 3 to 1. That means that for every 1 kW of electricity you consume, you get 3 kW of clean, dry heating. This is because the air around us contains usable heat, given to us by the sun, free. The heat pump absorbs this heat and processes it into the room.

Electricity, unlike all other fuels, has certain benefits.
1. You pay for it in arrears, not in advance.
2. No need to hump it around like gas bottles.
3. No need to find a covered area to store it, like logs.
4. Electricity is always of a known quantity and quality, unlike logs.

And it's great when you have a power cut

That's what your generator is for.

Who can afford to buy a generator?

Had an inverter A/C unit fitted via TRNC Vaughan back end of the summer, now using it in heating mode in the lounge, works very well.

Isn't the air con noisy? does it dry the air like when its on cold?

I know what I spend in the summer with having our air cons on.

Assuming I have a 12,000 unit on making it cooler, for 1 hour at 21 degrees, whilst the temperature is a lot higher outside, will it cost more, less, about the same to have the same air con giving heat at 25 degrees whilst it is a lot colder outside?

If it does cost more, or less, by what percentage will it be?

Thanks.

I have tried to think of all the info you may need, but I bet you need more. Like do you open any doors or windows when the ac is on? Or, do you move about more with the ac on in the summer/winter when the AC is on? Do you wear more or less clothes, etc, etc.

I know AC units take out moisture making the air feel cooler in the summer, but how does the heating part work? Is it just like a blower heater? Sorry, you lot are better informed than Google!

Butterflyaway wrote:I know what I spend in the summer with having our air cons on.

Assuming I have a 12,000 unit on making it cooler, for 1 hour at 21 degrees, whilst the temperature is a lot higher outside, will it cost more, less, about the same to have the same air con giving heat at 25 degrees whilst it is a lot colder outside?

If it does cost more, or less, by what percentage will it be?

Thanks.

I have tried to think of all the info you may need, but I bet you need more. Like do you open any doors or windows when the ac is on? Or, do you move about more with the ac on in the summer/winter when the AC is on? Do you wear more or less clothes, etc, etc.

I know AC units take out moisture making the air feel cooler in the summer, but how does the heating part work? Is it just like a blower heater? Sorry, you lot are better informed than Google!

Assuming you read what I said about heat pumps and their CoP, you will know that in heating mode they are much more efficient than in cooling mode when the outdoor unit is just dumping heat and you are not using that heat, as you are in heating mode.
A/C units work just like a fridge, which are cold inside and hot outside (the cooling fins on the back). If you could make the fridge compressor run backwards, you'd have a heat pump and the inside would be hot and the fins would be cold.

http://www.airconditioner.me.uk/vmchk/Heat_Pumps.html

Just a little consolidation info on the efficiency of aircon - inverters.
Although we have a log burner that runs 24/7 in the coldest part of the winter, like now, we use 2 of the aircon units, Diana's dressing room, and the kitchen on an as needed basis when the room is going to be in use. The warm-up time of the kitchen unit to bring the kitchen up to a comfortable temperature for breakfast is measured in minutes, and when set at 25C the unit switches down to tickover for at least 50% of its cycle. The cost of these we barely notice on the bill.
I think aircon has got itself a bad name is some quarters when run all day every day; any form of electrical heating will attract a bill, sometimes an unexpected one.