Newspaper bricks

M0ney

I have many hundreds of newspapers I've just started making into bricks my first few are now on a pallet drying out whilst being covered on wet days.

I'm just wondering what is the benefit of doing this over just sticking a newspaper rolled up secured with some wire into a stove, I've not got much room for storage and nowhere in my garden that's sheltered.

footyguy

M0ney wrote: »

I have many hundreds of newspapers I've just started making into bricks my first few are now on a pallet drying out whilst being covered on wet days.

I'm just wondering what is the benefit of doing this over just sticking a newspaper rolled up secured with some wire into a stove, I've not got much room for storage and nowhere in my garden that's sheltered.

Why not put a rolled up newspaper into the stove and see if it burns the way you want?

If it does, no point wasting time & effort on making bricks.
But from your thread last March on this topic, I understood that much of the paper you were gtoing to use was shredded paper you were going to obtain from your work
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5614494

I think rolled up newspaper will also burn too quickly/flare up compared to bricks which are intended to glow like a wooden log or lunp of coal.

But try it and let us know how you get on

M0ney

I've since gathered up a lot more newspaper, I have burned limited amounts of normal paper on my coal fire and it makes a hell of a lot of ash so I won't bother with that. My stove is getting installed in October. I just wondered if anyone had burned both bricks and unprocessed newspaper and seen the difference.

System

Shredded paper put in to a stove in large amounts tends to create masses of smoke as the paper just smoulders due to a lack of air. Fine if you live in the middle of nowhere but......

The key to efficient stove burning is ‘compressed’ dry fuel. The generation of less smoke also means less soot and a reduced risk of a chimney fire.

Stoves also use a prodigious amount of fuel. We love our stove, but I know that we will get through 3 bulk bags (1.2 cubic metres) of dried logs in a mild Winter.

suki1964

We made hundreds of bricks when we first got our stove 10 years ago

Funny enough we just unearthed 2 sacks of them

Because we gave up burning them because they choked the stove they made that much ash

Seriously, a waste of time and effort

silverwhistle

The consensus on the wood-burning forums is that they are not worth the effort, and they generate too much ash into the bargain. In normal operation I'd probably only remove some ash every 4 weeks or so, burning decent wood efficiently.

What I do use to get the stove going and up to temperature is sawdust which a neighbour gives me. Shoved in empty flour bags and the like it acts as a good glowing base for my kindling.