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Unseasoned timber will burn poorly with a very uncomplete combustion, this produces more tar and acidic combustion residue, this is bad for the stove and will reduce the life of the stove. Wet wood as in seasoned wood recently rained on isn't really an issue. Birch is a good firewood, if you are experiencing lots of black acrid smoke it's either unseasoned or your doing something wrong. Properly seasoned conifer is a perfectly good firewood

And that turned out to be an insurance scam

Unless you can source your logs for free or buy unprocessed bulk timber coal is cheaper with the advantage of a lot less bulk/volume to store. When I say bulk I'm talking 20ton not a transit load and then you have the problem of seasoning and storage, plus of course processing. The additional problem with wood is the quality and species as well a tonne of well seasoned Oak is a thing of beauty but get delivered a bag of soggy willow and you need extra jumpers, whilst excel is basically always excel So in my opinion coal unless you can get free timber but even then have some coal as a back up

If you do Facebook can I suggest a group called benefits for boaters, it's run by a chap very active and knowledgeable in the benefit system, highly recommended

Don't worry I'm sure your staff are aware of the arrival of fresh lemons and have stocked up appropriately for your G&T

I guess it's warm and damp and it's damp that's the issue, get it dry and keep it dry and it will likely go away, you could try a proper wood treatment to kill the actual mycelium present but while the site is damp the problem will come back

2 days plus travel to and from the boat, including professional insurance, sounds reasonable to me

Just the thought of eye surgery makes me shudder, hope the recovery goes well

Ignore that and let us know if you have worked out what the issue is