heat logs

Greenfires

I dunno mate! It's not something we do "on purpose" - it's just the way it is. We have quite a few customers on narrowboats who are often quite green in their views - they don't really like burning smokeless and they have a job keeping (usually) small stoves in all night with logs - so they use briquettes instead for the job.

I guess a lot will be down to the individual stove and chimney though - many modern cleanburning stoves are specifically designed so they can't be shut down as much as some older models. If it's windy here, with more draught in the chimney - our stove is less likely to stay in all night. It does seem to make a difference running ONLY with briquettes though - we've found in the past if we've used them together with logs, that by bedtime, all the logs have burned away to nothing and the embers of the briquettes we lit it with in the first place are the only things left alive. Here though, we've not bought logs for many years - we have a couple of barrow loads left by a departing neighbour at present, but they won't be around for long. Apart from that we've used nothing but briquettes.

highrisklowreturn

Bought a pack of 12 of these - made in roi - whilst the heat is good and the briquettes are solid, and don't smoke much, I already have 7 in the parkray, leaving me with 5 left over. At £3.15 a pack, how is it economical to burn these considering I would need 2 packets a day to run the parkray? I can see why you might buy them if your stove is in a tiny living room with the partition wall still in place, but not how either a large space or a boiler stove could be kept going with these.

No4_Winder

Blimey Mate 2 packs a day!
Are you running your complete heating system from the Parkray?

michaelgordon

im only heating 1 4m x 4m room it gets nice and toasty with two of these. gone from 16 to 24c in around 2 hours with just these (1 hottie 1 tesco) and couple of small logs. im quite happy with the results.

A._Badger

I've considered trying these but can't see them being cost effective. I hate to think how many I'd need in a 14kw stove.

highrisklowreturn

Try running them in an 80s parkray! You'd need 3 packs a day, total rip off. Anyone buying them should understand that even it they only need 4 or 5 a night, they're still going to get much better value from a bag of doubles.

Greenfires

They should also understand that doubles, or any other housecoal for that matter, is unsuitable for use in any modern multi-fuel stove.

highrisklowreturn

Why then ?

Greenfires

To be honest, I really can't be bothered to go through it all again just for your benefit, particularly as you know the reasons already. It's been covered over and over, as you well know.

Skulls

If I was still using my Villager 16kW then these briquettes would have worked out expensive but, with the new super efficient Burley 5kW it really is cost efficient to use briquettes. Even on the coldest day last winter, minus 7.6 outside at night, I still only used one pack of heat logs. The log burner is my only form of heating in the house. I have also installed a cold air feed and this also makes quite a big difference along with an Ecofan.