Weather ... again

[L Austin France]

We have about 15 stère of three year old wood (does the plural of stère need an "s"?) at the back of the house which we need to bring round into the wood storing/cutting barn aside the house. The central heating is wood fired and we used 10 -11 stère last year - your talk of a cold winter suggests we might need to move all 15!

We resolved to start on Friday but oh for a coughing fit or stubbed toe to come to the rescue.

Dunno about plural but deffo know that's an awful lot of wood to cut, move & store.
We used to heat the house with two woodies & lots of work cutting our own wood until I saw the light & installed 3 air-air PACs (heat pumps).
We now only light the lounge fire in the colder evening for the ambiance, where we settle
down before kip. The bedrooms are heated by convection from the lounge & are never cold.
A pal now cuts & stores wood from our trees, keeps most for himself, & delivers trailer loads direct to our house linked barn storage when needed, which is not very often now. Win-win for us both as I'm getting far to weary to deal with this nonsense.
Best of all, the house was comfortable during the heat waves using the PACs on a/c.

[Loup-garou]

The central heating system is less than six years old - we get our wood at 8€ a stere from the Village so it made sense. True enough, the logs get heavier as times go on.

On the plus side, Herself says she enjoys cutting and stacking the wood and, me being me, I would hate to steal her happy times.

[RobertArthur]

If this is what the coming winter is going to be like, you’d better have some firewood ready in various places.