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Briquettes Can Help Keep The House Warm, And The Heating Off This Winter
This means, you use fewer firewood logs to get your home up to temperature, so there’s less need to re-stock the log store as often, and helps to resist turning on the central heating for longer.
Our team have been using briquettes for years, so to cut through the jargon, here’s what we’ve learned:
Best for: Keeping the central heating off!
How to use: Add to the dying, end-of-the-night fire, and shut off the air vents to smoulder until morning.
Why buy me: Use two/three per night to keep the room warm, the embers last for hours, so prevent the need to use more firewood to heat the house from a ‘cold start’, this will extend your log store, and keep the central heating off for longer!
Best for: Value, 12 briquettes per 10kg pack, around £4.00 per bag is simply unbeatable value.
How to use: Same as you would firewood, can also be broken down and used as its own kindling to start the fire.
Why buy me: Totally self-sufficient, can be lit by crumbling them up, so without the need for kindling or even firelighters. Easy storage, a uniform shape, very easy to stack, store, and will fit into any size wood stove.
Best for: Heat output. Highly dense 1,000kg/m3, and made using willow, means these briquettes pack a heat punch.
How to use: In-between a briquette and a RUF, has a slightly higher heat output than the Aspen, but are smaller so you’ll need more for an overnight use, but given their heat output, can be used in the daytime to maintain a higher room temperature on cold days.
Why buy me: Smaller than an Aspen, but just as dense, and can maintain a higher temperature. Less cost effective, but still a strong performer.
Why We Love Burning Briquettes
In a word, versatility.
Due to their high calorific value, thanks to the incredible compression – briquettes of all kinds, contain within them a huge amount of heat potential, it’s all about how you want to use that to fit your needs.
Briquettes can burn intensely, producing a far higher heat output than firewood alone, if you add them to an existing fire, and keep the air flows open.
This will make them behave more like firewood, they won’t last overnight in this way, but it means you can leave the fire to burn intensely for around 2hrs without tending, rather than every 45mins with wood alone.
Briquettes can also burn low and slow, smouldering briquettes by adding them to a dying fire is the best way to maintain an ambient temperature over long periods (overnight), the embers will be all that are left after around 8hrs, so you can add kindling and re-light the fire quickly the next day.
Burning this way, requires you to limit airflow to a minimum level, in so doing, this can create a layer of black residue on your stove door, this is due to the lower temperature burn and nothing to worry about. It wipes off easily with warm water, or you can burn it off by re-lighting the fire with firewood.
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