Heat Logs £2.99 for 8 @ Aldi

bxboards

SG27 wrote: »

How many logs do you put in to burn for 1hr 45? And how many heat logs did you use for an hours burn? I probably got about 1.5 hours out of two heat logs with several logs! I think my stove may be hopelessly ineffiecient!

Is buy them again if they have any down here, although I will be in Cumbria for new year so might have a look if I pass an aldi!

I put in one log at the time, either a hardwood log or heatlog. My woodburner (Aga Little Wenlock) is only a small 5kw stove, but it's excellent - I couldn't fit in multiple logs into mine.

Winter has been extremely mild up here so far, so perhaps when it starts getting cold, I may appreciate the larger heat generation from the heat logs vs. hardwood logs, but for burn rate, not so impressed.

SG27

bxboards wrote: »

I put in one log at the time, either a hardwood log or heatlog. My woodburner (Aga Little Wenlock) is only a small 5kw stove, but it's excellent - I couldn't fit in multiple logs into mine.

Winter has been extremely mild up here so far, so perhaps when it starts getting cold, I may appreciate the larger heat generation from the heat logs vs. hardwood logs, but for burn rate, not so impressed.

I think I seriously need to get a new stove. The one that was here when we moved in is an evergreen waverly. It's something like 14 KW! I could probably fit 10 heat logs in there at a time! (I dont!) and burn probably 8 large hardwood logs during an evening. The problem is we have a large inglenook and a 5kw stove, although probably warm enough and much more effiecient, would like odd! And anything above 5KW building regs put me off!

Greenfires

£60/m3 is very cheap for seasoned hardwood. I take it it's definitely a cubic metre and not a builders bulk bag?

Ebe_Scrooge

Greenfires wrote: »

£60/m3 is very cheap for seasoned hardwood. I take it it's definitely a cubic metre and not a builders bulk bag?

Agreed, but £60 for a cubic centimetre seems a tad excessive to me :

" (which I buy from 60 pounds for a 1cm3 bag)"



( Sorry, meant as a light-hearted jest, no offence intended ! )

aelitaman

If you are getting a bag full of logs, not 1 cubic meter of solid wood, then that bag will weigh about 200Kg. So you are paying exactly the same as the per KG as you did for the heatlogs.

But as you have noticed the heat logs contain a lot less water, I tested the Aldi ones with my moisture meter and it was less than 1%. Seasoned hardwood is less than 20%.

You are getting a much better deal with the heatlogs, if you want them to last longer then turn the woodburner airflow down so they burn less fiercely and last longer. If they still burn too fiercely then break them in half and burn half at a time with the airflow turned right down

Skulls

If you are only getting an hour out of a heat log, there is too much air being introduced. Once my fire/chimney is up to temp I get about 2 hours out of each heat log. On my older Villager stove I could never get the air flow low enough for heat logs to burn slowly. If it is mild then I just put one half on at a time.

If I adjusted my airflow to make them last just one hour, I would have to open every door in the house! lol

SG27

Skulls wrote: »

If you are only getting an hour out of a heat log, there is too much air being introduced. Once my fire/chimney is up to temp I get about 2 hours out of each heat log. On my older Villager stove I could never get the air flow low enough for heat logs to burn slowly. If it is mild then I just put one half on at a time.

If I adjusted my airflow to make them last just one hour, I would have to open every door in the house! lol

I have to keep the airflow fairly high otherwise the temperature is too low, in the creasote zone. I expect it's because my stove is too big and inefficient.

Skulls

Because of using heat logs I thought the creosote problem was very low i.e. for creosote to form you need moisture, as the moisture of heat logs is so low, then there is only a very small chance of creosote (opening the fire up when reloading for a few mins). I may be wrong, there are a lot of experts who will chip in I'm sure. Since using only heat logs I have never had to clean the glass.

bxboards

aelitaman wrote: »

If you are getting a bag full of logs, not 1 cubic meter of solid wood, then that bag will weigh about 200Kg. So you are paying exactly the same as the per KG as you did for the heatlogs.

Each of the logs weighs between 1.5kg up to just over 2kg, (obviously some are larger, some smaller but most are tipping the scales around there) and I got about 250 to 300 logs in the bag. So somewhere around 400-500kg in the bag - it took me hours to shift it from the front garden to the back garden where I store my wood!

Put it another way, for the money I got about 100 heat logs for 29.99 or approx 300 seasoned hardwood logs for 60, so for me I don't think the figures work, as they are burning faster than my hardwood logs, albeit producing more heat.

If my hardwood log price increases, then obviously that will change.

mameha

Sorry to revive old thread but I was at Aldi yesterday and noticed they had Kindling, Heat logs, smokeless fuel and coal all at really good prices so stock seems to be in again for this winter.