My first negative thing about the leaf

n97 mini

mel.b wrote: »

Not that much! Still have two buckets of the first bag left that i got on the 4th Oct. i think in the height of winter i go through a bag every week or so.

This was €19 a bag. With the bunker i got i discovered it only works properly with the oval shaped coal

A bag a week!? Holy crap, I just emptied the last of 3 bags we bought 3 years ago. Mains gas ftw!

DrPhilG

Firblog wrote: »

Where'd you get coal for that price in DL?

Place in Buncrana, can't remember the name. I'm probably talking balls about the price too. It's been well over a year since I bought coal because I got about 15 x 40kg bags and stacked them in the garage.

Firblog wrote: »

On the subject of the thread: 1st negative thing about the leaf.. Putting on eco mode disables the bloody heater.. you can pump the temp gauge up to the limit, won't do a thing if eco mode is on.. froze me **** off one morning because of that..

You sure? I leave Eco mode on all the time and have no issue with the heater. Preheating in the morning is fine and drove to work this morning with the heat on too as we dropped to 4 degrees in the hills of Donegal.

Oil is cheaper or buy coal in the tonne, buy smokeless and not have to worry about crappy soot.

I love my Efel oil stove, very efficient, minimum setting consumes about 0.4 ish L per hour and that's plenty, though probably not if you heat rads which this one doesn't.

I've seen these stoves for as little as 300 Euro's on Adverts and people write int he add ( going back to solid fuel ) what a laugh , these are brilliant stoves and efficient and very cheap to run.

pwurple

Coal eh. Yeah, we occasionally buy the odd smokeless bag alright. Real fire is just so nice in winter, one of those little luxuries I guess. 
Stoves, I'd never got one after doing some work with the fire service. They are lethal for causing awful fires in houses. Worse than an open fire apparently. Hotter, goes up faster, and harder to get at the source if it's the flue. 

My gripe with the leaf, is that the charging port is on the front. I reverse park. Always. It's required on most of the sites I work on, plus it's the law if you are coming out of your own driveway.  I find it really weird to reverse out of a space. You can't see where you are going properly at all. You're basically relying on everyone else knowing that you are starting to move out. Not for me, I like to be in control if I'm the driver.

Anyway. Dragging the cable across the car to the charge port annoying.

Charge port suits me fine, My greatest gripe is the BOSE stereo.

Regarding stove, the Efel Oil stove is much more efficient and far easier to control the heat. I was on the roof today trying to re-align the satellite dish which is fecked, anyway, I out my hand over the chimney and you can hardly feel any heat, remarkable, it must be indeed quiet efficient, I even put my hand on the top of the flu or whatever you call that bit that sticks out and it was only luke warm.

Hardly any chance of a fire with one of these stoves I'd say. Fire is much more controlled. I should get a small one for the sitting room.

mordeith

I'd agree with Pwurple on the charge location. It's fine at home but a bit of a dose at some on street charge points.

Regarding stoves I'd never go back to an open fire. The problem I see is people treat stoves like open fires and lash the coal in. This is totally unnecessary and it does burn crazy hot. We only burn wood or compressed woodchip logs. Great heat, very little soot plus you can boil a kettle on it. Came in very handy when we had no power for the last two days.

NIMAN

mordeith wrote: »

I'd agree with Pwurple on the charge location. It's fine at home but a bit of a dose at some on street charge points.

Regarding stoves I'd never go back to an open fire. The problem I see is people treat stoves like open fires and lash the coal in. This is totally unnecessary and it does burn crazy hot. We only burn wood or compressed woodchip logs. Great heat, very little soot plus you can boil a kettle on it. Came in very handy when we had no power for the last two days.

Aren't stoves with an in-built boiler dangerous when theres a cut in power?

mordeith

NIMAN wrote: »

Aren't stoves with an in-built boiler dangerous when theres a cut in power?

Haven't a clue TBH. Ours doesn't have one

Ours doesn't have a boiler either , I'm not sure I'd call them dangerous, the water boils and should flow up the expansion pipe, not dangerous but not something you'd want happening all day.

I'm happy enough knowing I can leave this oil stove on all day and it will be fine, solid fuel anything is a complete pain, having all the filth and poor regulation and inefficiency and worry about chimneys if out of the house etc, a right pain I'd never go back to.

NIMAN

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