Wooden briquettes produce extra warmth than logs and burn for longer. With moisture ranges of lower than 10% it makes full sense to make use of briquettes for wooden burning stoves.
They’re good to your fire, your range, your pocket – and the atmosphere. They usually burn hotter, cleaner, are cheaper to purchase and are a lot simpler to retailer and deal with than logs.
A wooden briquette delivers round 50% extra warmth for every pound spent than logs. One briquette can last as long as 4 hours, and large customers will discover they save round £150 a 12 months in comparison with shopping for typical logs.
The burn time of a wooden briquette depends upon varied components – as an example its composition, its dimension and in the end its moisture stage. A really dry, dense briquette has higher burning properties than a conventional log. And it’ll burn for longer and at a a lot larger temperature.
Briquettes are nonetheless largely untried by many fireplace customers within the UK – significantly within the south – however after getting tried them, you’ll by no means return to hauling piles of logs off your drive.
Within the UK at the moment there’s a north-south divide; southerners choose kiln-dried wooden whereas in Scotland individuals purchase wooden briquettes. However it’s step by step altering as clients get up to the advantages of briquettes.
Woodlets briquettes are made by making use of 10,000psi (kilos per sq. inch) of strain to woodchips. They’re completely pure – the lignin molecules within the wooden soften beneath the strain and bind the wooden chip collectively to make the completed briquette.
Woodlets supply all of its wooden from inside 60-miles of its manufacturing unit in south west Scotland. Woodlets Briquettes have the stamp of approval from the UNESCO Biosphere in Galloway and Southern Ayrshire – the one globally recognised badge for sustainability and all the forests the place the wooden is sourced are FSC® accredited.
The moisture content material of Woodlets briquettes is lower than 10%, which means they burn higher and gained’t trigger chimney and flue issues. Logs offered within the UK typically have a lot larger ranges of moisture – well-seasoned wooden could be as excessive as 20% and different circumstances as a lot as 50%. Briquettes for wooden burning stoves is the plain alternative!
Just a few issues to concentrate on when burning wooden briquettes…
- Preserve the briquettes dry when you retailer them. In the event that they get moist they are going to increase as they take up moisture
- Briquettes burn at a really excessive temperature. watch out to not exceed your range’s warmth capability
On the plus aspect…
Woodlets Briquettes depart about 1% of their quantity as ash – so no extra emptying the range everytime you will have a hearth!
For smaller stoves, Woodlets Briquettes could be damaged in half – or much less. Or strive our premium model Roastie-Toasties in the event you want a a lot smaller briquette.
Woodlets Briquettes are Clear Air Act compliant and carry the Able to Burn emblem.
