Deal on briquettes/heat logs

Robwiz

Had my pallet of Aspen briquettes delivered. The driver was brilliant – there's a slight gradient on my drive in front of the garage and he couldn't shift the pallet uphill as it was so heavy. He asked me to give him a hand – together we pushed the pallet onto the tail lift and from there we got the pallet into the garage without mishap.

Stacking a tonne of briquettes is a pretty good intensive workout though, especially on a 24º sunny day. Reminds me of the old saying about 'if you burn wood it heats you twice' or something like that.

[Deleted User]

With all the chat on heat logs I went out and bought some Blazers from The Range.


Now I know the Blazers are not as good as others mentioned but I have to say I'm well impressed.


No mess, only use one at a time, burn very hot and they last for yonks when compared to any log.


Will probably pick up a pallet of Aspen or Hotties etc but feeling guilty not ordering the usual logs from my local supplier

savemoney

I felt sorry for guy as soon as he puled up he was stressed out and said how can he manage with one person, I am on minimum wage etc, I get all *hit jobs etc. He had to move the pallet lifter thing around so he pushed the heat logs on to lift. When it got there after a few secs it tippled over. There was a slight gradient which probably didn't help. He did help me clear it up off road and gave him a cuppa and a can of pop for his way to next job it was a hot day.

greyteam1959 wrote: »

I think I might have made a complaint about that to be honest.
Should have be delivered intact.
I would be on the phone to them...........

Smiley_Dan

Anyone tried their Luxury Wood delivery yet? I'm very happy with ours.

I'm currently building a top down fire, five bark logs, on top of that two aspen logs, then to the side of that one aspen log broken into thirds, kindling, paper. 12kw stove, plenty of space in there.

The whole lot lasts about four hours. With the residual heat I've not felt we need to re-fuel yet.

Lights easy, every time and is very controllable.

savemoney

I am burning mine past 2 weeks, pretty pleased with result of Aspen heat logs, give off lots of heat and easy to break up and burn. Quite heavy for a briquettes compared with others

Smiley_Dan

Yeah, I lugged twenty bark logs and twelve Aspen logs in a trunk from the garage to the fire. It was a bit of a struggle

pambler

As usual I didn't get my rear end into gear during the summer, so never got around to ordering the Aspen logs. I have just been on to the Luxury Wood website now, and they are no longer available - they now have logs called Bio Blaze - does anyone know what these are like. At £229 for a 960kg pallet, they look like fairly good value, but I'm not sure whether to go for them or a more tried and tested make.

Robwiz

We lit our stove for the first time on Tuesday. The Aspen logs were fine and lasted well.

Greenfires

First of all they're pressed briquettes - meaning they'll do the swelling up and then falling to bits routine. The party will be pretty much over once the flames have died down as they don't form proper embers. Secondly they mention they will probably "crumble a little" and they almost try to make a selling point of it! Briquettes that crumble are generally made in cheap machinery - the briquettes crumble because they've not been compacted very well! Extruded briquettes are way harder and last much longer - AND they form embers that will keep chucking the heat out for ages once the flames have died down. Soft crumbly briquettes tend to be very short lived in a stove - that's why we don't sell them. They may look like a good deal on paper, but when we've sold them as an alternative in the past nobody bought them twice as they all reckoned the "expensive" ones worked out cheaper as they lasted so much longer. Which basically confirmed our own opinion on it.
Thirdly there's no mention of where they're from. Which generally suggest they've been trucked in from Estonia or Latvia. Obviously people have different considerations when buying fuels - but we like to think we're doing our bit for the planet generally - so we only deal with UK manufactured briquettes.

Lastly the energy figures they give look suspect. Briquettes are made of wood - and wood has a finite amount of energy per kilo. The figure they quote is higher than the energy content of oven dry wood so I'm not sure where they're finding the extra! Briquettes have more available energy than traditional logs for a given weight - because they contain much less moisture - BUT - you can't add extra energy to wood by compressing it to a higher density.

Smiley_Dan

Anyone else got the email from Verdo about broken briquettes?

I work that out at 4p per kWh before boiler inefficiencies... not bad.