How do you clean out the ash?

If you using it correctly with wood only, there should be so little ash left at the end of a burn that it will need cleaning out maybe weekly. I use a small vacuum and the waste goes into the compost heap.

Don’t be so melodramatic.

People die from the cold in towns do you suggest this doesn’t happen in the rich countryside where everyone is just burning wood for a laugh at the world?

There is plenty of fuel poverty in the countryside with little credible alternative, most of the people I see on a daily basis are over 60, driving beat up cars, live in old single skinned houses with limited insulation options. Have no mains sewerage, no mains gas, and extremely unreliable electric at this time of year when it’s stormy.
So I’ll continue to be ‘melodramatic’ or realistic as I prefer to call it.

Ban stoves and wood burners in towns I’m all for it. There is no need for them, except aesthetics, or burning free stuff which shouldn’t be near a stove. For many though there is a real need for wood as a source of fuel.

Even used properly, they still belch out carcinogenic PM10s. They just need to be banned outright

I assume you mean in areas with a credible affordable alternative? Some of us use wood as it’s the most cost effective and available fuel we have(and the majority in this situation know how to use their burners effectively), no? Ok I’ll just freeze to death?

but even when used properly

Yes I’ve read the article, it’s quite clear he wasn’t using his properly, idling it overnight is a really bad thing for pollution, yet he said he does this. Run your stove hot let it combust properly and built the fire top down the Scandinavian way and you minimise the requirement to open the door and refuel often.

Even in remote rural areas the smoke affects those of us with lung conditions such as asthma.

I have chronic Asthma and have been on medication for it for about 40years. Does my (or my neighbours) stove exacerbate it? Can’t say I’ve noticed any increase in my needing my medication (Budesonide and the usual Ventolin) but hey we’re a sample size of 2. My Asthama was certainly worse before I had any credible heat source in the home though.

Has anyone installed and regrets it now (and is big enough to admit it!)

Yes and No.
We have a Clock Sudbury (HETAS approved, all new stoves need to be IIRC) we burn only dry wood, from our own stock ora reputable supplier but still check it with a moisture meter and restack and use the driest first (it’s all under 20% moisture anyway) we light it top down (Scandinavia way) to ensure the flue is heated early in the cycle. There is very little smell outside and rarely the faintest whiff inside after opening and refuelling (usually when there is a very strong northeast wind).
Do I regret installing it? No it’s better than freezing, it’s less co2 and a net zero vs the tree growth than my only other option which was oil.
I live in the sticks have 2 (human) neighbours (many deer and animal neighbours though) I can’t smell the neighbours stoves either. If was ina town or built up area would I have one? Hell no. Situation and options are important considerations imho.

Since no one commented, I do suggest the book I linked to earlier. Not only does it teach you how to get the best out of your wood and stove it also talks about this issue and the extremely large amount of research done in Scandinavia relating to it.
TLDR wood causes some particulate pollution especially when stoves are used inefficiently. In lots of Scandinavia there simply isn’t another option so education and more research into more efficient burning is very important to them.

Simply living causes pollution so choose wisely. I do agree a ban in cities would be a good thing. Had I still lived there with other options I wouldn’t have installed a stove. Where I am now I have electric or wood. I use both carefully.

Worse, when I shut down a stove to trickle some heat through the house at night, the chimney released a cloud of black smoke and soot

From the linked article. This is exactly what you shouldn’t do with a stove. It’s amazing he can research how ‘harmful’ it was without first researching how to actually use it correctly.

He could have just bought this wonderful book 😉

So good he said it thrice 😁
One minute a day never felt so good ☀️🌞

Haha do you think the rich swine would be using the NHS? Private all the way for that arse.

Finch

That’s not what he said at all.

Being over worked, over tired and stressed, can lead to repeated cold like symptoms, that doesn’t mean that’s what we’re feeling but in my case it’s 99% likely.

The overly expensive ones from Cafe Nero 😋

It was my youth I can’t pick 1, 10 years is a long time in musical taste as a teenager/early 20’s

So many great albums in the 80’s
Disintegration – The Cure
Thunder and Consolation – New Model Army
The River – Bruce Springsteen
Shelter – Lone Justice

If you draw a blank then asking the guys at Think Energy in Hexham may be useful. Of course Northumberland is big and that may be a fair distance from you 😁

Google doesn’t really get ‘up to date and relevant’ that when you search for random quotes to use on a forum..

Gravity is just a theory as is time. So please feel free to ignore them and float back to elsewhere in time before and evidence based approach science was the norm. You do actually understand the word ‘Theory’ in its scientific context don’t you?

I’m happy to take a ban for this but both VR and MCMD are delusional ****, they both need serious help from mental health professionals and a big break from the internet.

For off the shelf stuff, Lavazza Black is less strong and far nicer tasting than the Red (maybe counter intuitive if you expect black = dark/strong)

In the garden. The blackberrys, plumbs, apples, wild raspberries, elder/other berries are/were everywhere. It’s been a bumper year for them.
Of course I don’t have wild rhubarb and ginger ooop north, but it’s still a shed load cheaper (even including energy costs 1 ring on a hob for a little while ;) ) than buying the stuff at the mental normal shop prices.

Then there’s the unquantifiable enjoyment of home made

This ^^^^^
We absolutely re-use jars. I think we bought some once,maybe?. As for time it really doesn’t take long at all.

Plus whatever energy your cooker used making it. So approx £lots at current energy prices. Oh, goody.

wowsers so for about less than £2 electric (even at current prices) I have 5 litres (at least of blackberry and apple jam.
Fine stick to buying it. Also Rhubarb and ginger jam is like rocking horse shit in the actual shops and ours tastes better anyway. Suit ya self 😉

People buy jam (especially at this time of year?) when there’s been free fruit everywhere for the last two months. We can’t move for jam in this house. Cost so far about £5 of sugar and some lemons.

Agreed it’s possibly the perfect punk rock album.

Servers consume far more power than personal workstations. Mine with monitor is 130W. Our small pair of servers is 4-5kW when not under load. Triple or quadruple that for max load.

if only some clever person could invent some kind of software that allows multiple servers to run on one piece of hardware, therefore making the whole datacenter world more efficient…….

Groove3 do good Cubase tutorials.
Tbh I’ve never got on with Ableton or Bitwig but I come from a trad ‘go into a studio and make and album’ background. Even when making random ambient stuff I like the traditional DAW linear workflow.

Also what Anjatom says…. Get a usb sound card with proper ASIO drivers (oh thank god for my Mac and built into the OS CoreAudio and CoreMidi.)

Or

From the studio menu open audio connections and make sure your main outputs are mapped to your sound card (native or via asio4all) outputs.

The far left is the Sostenuto (soft pedal) which on an acoustic piano moves the hammers so they only hit 1 string instead of three. The middle can vary but it usually a variation of sustain which works only for the notes held down when the pedal is pressed they will sustain but the rest played after will act as if no pedal is in use.

Check out Pianote for a teacher based approach to online learning.
Or if you want to read the dots Piano Marvel has loads of content.

My life is too precious to me to filter up the inside of any vehicle. I’ll overtake and filter on the outside like a car or motorcycle would thanks. Feel free to disagree it’s your life and your trust others at stake.

Every day without fail. I also have one at the office and use that one regularly too.

@stox thanks 🙏

@stox if you don’t mind me asking who did you use. I’m NE and could do with a recommendation 👍🏻

My wife had the iZettle (now PayPal?)sumup and Square. The only one which has been zero hassle is Square.

When is events with her I’m always inundated with my card reader isn’t working requests. The worst are paypal (izettle) the least Square.

Just pop em up ya flue and 10 minutes later bobs your uncle. (Ladies Night)

In our house chicken and mushroom pies are always known as Snake eye pies.

If you’re doing this over the internet make sure the target device is extremely secure, patched and has good solid long secure passwords for all accounts.
RDP port 3389 is one of the most scanned and attacked ports in the network world (along with SSH 22)
Maybe use Apache Guacamole and do it over https instead.

If you don’t believe it just open 3389 to the internet and watch your security event log for a while.