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For selling or using? Whatever length suits your fireplace, if for yourself.
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For selling or using? Whatever length suits your fireplace, if for yourself.
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They do. Had this conversation with a neighbour, the other day. Each time you change fuel, technique has to change to suit the fuel. There's no one technique suits all.
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Thank you for posting this.
However that hydraulic pump you hear running in the video don't run for nothing.
Would be interesting if the video showed the electricity usage as well.
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@Pete.: Is it these specific ones you've tried, or a different type/brand?
I'm looking at this stack I have here, thinking that should last me a good while. If it will, however, only time will tell.
Fuel piles generally tend to diminish quicker than one would hope.
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Yeah those ones from Duffield. We chuck one on then a normal log on top. The lava log produces so much heat the one on top has no choice but to burn.
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Most fires will happily take 9 inches. Our new one above takes 17” max. In theory bigger logs, less time you need to load them. But too big we end up cooking! Too small stacking is a pain.
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Also someone who forgets to feed his cat...You can tell a lot from a man's lounge carpet amd the selection of tools in the house. From yours I can tell you are a sensible single man that hasn't got a wife that insists on fully redecorating and recarpeting the house every other year whether it needs it or not.
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Roughly 2½ week after they came, & I've only gone through 9 to 10 packs so far. Only have the fire going when I'm home, so it's not in constantly, but they seem to be lasting reasonably well. They do throw out a good heat, & they do burn cleanly.
I'm quite impressed with these logs.
I'm quite impressed with these logs.
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Met a local bloke for a gate quote . Had a nice old house . He showed me a heep of pallets of wood chip logs. His heating was a big wood job
Met a local bloke for a gate quote . Had a nice old house . He showed me a heep of pallets of wood chip logs. His heating was a big wood job
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He obviously rates/likes briquettes then?
It's the guaranteed low moisture content which was the main selling point for me. Proper logs are just too much hassle in my mind, now. Plus, they're a processed by-product of manufacturing from wood, so it's using an otherwise waste product for something useful.
It's the guaranteed low moisture content which was the main selling point for me. Proper logs are just too much hassle in my mind, now. Plus, they're a processed by-product of manufacturing from wood, so it's using an otherwise waste product for something useful.
My missus used to keep an emergency store of the octagonal ones with the hole down the middle, hedge against the coal man late in delivering. They burn very hot indeed, god knows whats in them, something from Sellafield maybe. I never did any sort of audit on any solid fuel available to me over 30 years of burning the stuff, I would be interested to know, for curiousity sake. I burn seasoned hardwood now because I live sandwiched between two multi thousand hectare forests but I vouch it is definitely not the winner for efficiency or achievable value, calorifically speaking.
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Wood burning if you’re buying it, is expensive heating, no matter how you look at it. A luxury living room centre piece.
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We burn wood from the farm where it is dumped by the local tree surgeons But I also burn something called HEAT smokeless fuel from the local coal yard. Wood burns quicker and gives more heat but the HEAT will stay in all night and half the next day under a layer of ash.
For me it is no luxury, there is no mains gas anywhere within 20km. I rue not installing oil fired years ago when I was having the place renovated. I only used it in the summers back then but I spend entire years here now and burn 14-22M3 a season.
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Oil fired heating isnt bad to run price wise. We are gas free here too and did consider green options, RHI etc. but you can buy a lot of oil for the price differences.
My missus used to buy a product called Excel from the coalman, sneaky missus ordered 1/2 ton coal for one bunker and half ton of Excel for the other, she burned coal after dark. The heat from burning the Excel nuggets was notably a lot hotter than a grate full of coal.
At night we load up the important stove with the largest log or two, half split oak usually, it is still just burning in the morning.
