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Use them alongside hardwood heat logs as well as conventional firewood logs to get a great long burning blaze. Manufactured in a smaller 200mm length (most other briquettes are 300mm) and ideal for small-medium stoves as a main fuel. Once a fire is established and there is some heat in the base of the fire, it should be fuelled with hardwood to maintain a slow burning fire with a good heat output.
It's not pleasant to sit around a smoky fire, but inhaling too much smoke is also dangerous for your lungs and can damage your health, so it's important to minimise the smoke by using only hardwood logs in your log burner. If you are finding that your fire is going out quickly and your logs are burning fast then decrease the oxygen getting into the fire by closing the air vents. It is certainly not something for regular use but it is valuable to have in your arsenal of cold weather techniques in case you should ever need it and I hope this article helps explain how such a fire can be established. As all wood briquettes have different characteristics, the ‘best’ briquette for you will depend on your aim and your stove.
A larger stove might be best run on Enviro-Bricks or Beech Nestro, both of which are chunky enough to satisfy even very greedy stoves running lots of radiators. Hotmax 20kg is made in the UK from softwood fines (sawdust and bark) extracted whilst making dust free horse bedding. With today’s insulation and draft-proofing, there is not much air circulation, and trickle vents won’t do the trick.
Heat logs are much easier to light than firewood – they burn more slowly and your fire will need less attention. When wood is first cut, it contains a lot of moisture (sometimes up to 60%) which needs to dry out to less than 20% moisture before the wood can be burned.We genuinely care about the environmental impact of our products, and are constantly working to improve the sustainability of our packaging by using cardboard in place of plastic wherever possible.
If you're not sure what you'd enjoy best, just get in touch - we're always happy to talk and we'd love to help you get a better blaze on your stove, open fire or outside garden chimenea. Pine Mountain Chimney Cleaning Safety logs are designed to remove and stop the build-up of creosote. They are ideal if you have a wood burning stove and are looking for an efficient and effective form of fuel.However, all feature a burn heat that’s strong and consistent, making them ideal for your wood burning stove. If you try to burn wood before it is properly dry, it will be difficult to light, burn with a low flame so you won't get a good heat output and there will be lots of unpleasant and unhealthy smoke and soot.
What works in my stove may not work in your stove, so proceed with care and be sure not to overload your fire. This certainly offers up a really good feeling you’re doing your bit as well as enjoying a lovely fire. Along with this, as with most briquettes available on the market, you can expect some expansion when burning, so be sure not to overfill the appliance!However, before we dive in to what we consider to be the best artificial logs to use in your wood burner, let’s examine that attributes that every artificial log should have. To help you decide, we’ve listed the benefits of heat logs over firewood to outline some of the main differences between the two. Briquettes are suitable for wood-burning stoves, log burners, protected fire pits, chimineas and open fires. However, it’s important to remember that burning multiple logs at the same time will not increase burn time.
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