Smokeless fuel -Stoveglow

brooksie

Has anybody used Stoveglow smokeless fuel, we have a parkray room heater with back boiler( not gravity fed)and have been using a mixture of coal and wood(i know we are not supposed to but have old style chimney apparently and we have it swept twice a year and been ok for a long time) but would now like to go smokeless , but phunacite is £16 a bag and too expensive. Cheapest smokeless is this stoveglow but would like to know if anyone has used it and if it burns very hot or difficult to light etc. We can't go to gas as off the grid so this is our only option, its a Housing assos house.

abigbill

Stoveglow is in my exerience as good as Phurnacite ands stays in as long in my Dowling stove. But leaves more clinker. Much cheaper too. I pay 2.35 for 10kg bag but do order 6-7 tonne a go in June.

wen-tom

Where can you buy stove glow?

I havent seen it anywhere...

Thanks

abigbill

Generally speaking coal is coal is coal. There are only two types, smokeless or house coal. You coal mercahnt will bamboozle you, but all have same KW/h rating. Clinker is the only thing taht may vary, but not from brand to brand, more likely from batch to batch. House coal has not had the volatiles burnt off, so it flames well. Thus buy cheapest. Use house coal if you want flames - for open fires, use smokless to put in a closed stove, or, if you live in a smokless zone.

Phurnacite is a brand, same stuuf as stoveglow, which is the same as smokeless, there are only three makers in the UK. Ferguson, CPL and the other escapes me. They make it differnt sahpes and call it differtn names. All Basiclly shaped coke. Give it a brand name to kid you on. Stoveglow is an ovoid, and phurnacite to make yo think is differnt is a Square (from memory). Its all balck - it all burns. Phurnacite is dearest, and jsut has a larger bullsh*t rating, to justify the price. But if you wnat it in triangles you ahve to buy Firebrite, still it fools to punters... Coalite is another.

I'll expain, A bag of white sugar is a bag of white sugar, like lagers, but look along the shelf and you'd think not. You'll see 30-40 lagesr in a supermarket. The reason, schmucks like the choice. So guess what, they get it. But I defy any of them to pick their lager brand out from, a blind line up.

Same crowd buys Starbucks, and when the sub-coffee is served burnt, they call it a blend. Works everytime. And they coem back next day, becaue of the luxury! At four quid a go thye have the nerve to put it in a palstic cup. Genius!!! One born every...

My only compalint with Starbucks is that I didn't think of it.

Anyway schmuck-coal comes in differnt shapes.

House coal coems in several sizes and large cobbles are best for flames but are hardest to light. But essentailly all the same. So, which shape did you want??? See what i mean? schmucks, love that sort of thing.

Doubt me, ask you coal merchant for the KW/h per kg of each brand to compare. Look on hte web sitres, it will never be listed. I have £500. says you won't get that information easily.