Great deal , need these to get the train up to 88 miles per hour so I can return to 1985.....great Scott!

Plus you never find free gas or electric hiding at work or in the woods!

48kWh @ £2.79 = 5.8p/kWh

Sounds good :smiley:

So I researched and found

Compared to a combi boiler at 90% efficiency (maybe 80% after electricity overheads are "included") there is no contest.

Great if you have an open fire. Tons of ventilation and fresh air.

Use these all the time in my stove. Easy to light and last ages.

My local home bargains doesn't have any in stock yet though.

isn't this the normal price? still good value. not voted either way.

Most decent log burners / stoves have >80% efficiency.

tried these and quite decent ... not as easy to light as those wrapped in paper etc but these are much cheaper .. HEAT ! :-)

Really? Please share your research.

Damn.. misread the title and thought it said "hot dogs"

Shame no Home Bargains near Oxford. Hot

Google is your friend

stove/My Fire.

Plus you never find free gas or electric hiding at work or in the woods!

Great deal , need these to get the train up to 88 miles per hour so I can return to 1985.....great Scott!

Was given some of these to try by a friend last week, burned too hot & too fast even with all the vents closed, not very cost effective but I agree clean and minimal ash. All stoves give fuel different burning properties however a single bed of smokeless ovals with the occasional log on top will burn for 8hrs+ in my experience and overnight using the side lighting method.

you'll be burning money at this price.

I've just started using a solid fuel stove and recently went round to various places to see what different fuels I could put in it and to figure out prices etc.

The biggest piece of advice I can give: Don't let heat logs get damp/wet - they'll disintegrate and become completely useless - basically just sawdust. I was very sad to find out my fuel store had got damp and every single heat-log I had had grown and turned into sawdust!

Neither hot nor cold.

These are probably better than most other ways of buying wood, which inevitably arrives soaking wet regardless of any claims of being well-seasoned etc.

I paid £357 for a ton of good quality smokeless fuel, delivered, last month. That's 9200 kWh for £357 or about 3.9p/kWh.

Smokeless (or even coal) is a lot more convenient than wood, too, as it's a smaller volume to move and store, and burns for longer between filling up the stove.

Managed to get a log store built that holds 8 cube, i was very smug when I'd filled it up ready for the winter by the beginning of June :smiley:

I'll stick with my 0p/kWh logs from woods,pallets,doors,door/window frames,furniture. Have never bought coal or logs for my open fire

Agree with previous comment about these always being sold at this price either summer or winter! I buy them throughout the year at 8-10 packs a time then store them in their plastic wrappers until needed then break them in half as I only have a small stove. They burn really well and supplement logs and smokeless nuggets for overnight burning. For the price they are the best I've used.

Hi I have an outdoors mesh mini fire pit and was wondering how hard these things are to light/get going please?
(I currently put paper in then kindling wood and then a small amount of pallet wood or logs on top + light it) .

People often light a fire from the centre of the grate/firebox but if you want to extend the burn time and in particular at night I suggest the following.

Lay your fuel, in my case for night fires smokeless ovals, with less fuel at one end than the other. At the end with the least fuel start a kindling fire, this lights the ovals which burn from one end to the other gradually. When the fire reaches the other end there is more fuel and at least a couple of hours will have passed before the largest amount of fuel lights up. It's quite possible to get 8-10hrs overnight from a coal bucket sized load and more than enough red coals in the morning to throw some more fuel on, open the vents and start again.

Think of it like laying a gunpowder trail to the keg.

Il give that a try tonight see how it goes.......I just normally load it up and cut it back to nothing but its hit and miss......

well got 2 of these ticking over nicely in the wood burner :innocent:
6 for £2.79 wasn't to bad and they seem to be doing the job......just gota see how long the burn is.....

Yes, they burn cleanly and give a good deal of heat per £ compared to buying builders bags of logs of dubious quality/moisture content. Don't be fooled into thinking the bags they are supplied in are waterproof, though. Once moist, the logs expand 3-fold and are unusable.

Always makes me laugh when people say they have had a ton bag of wood for £50, im sure they don't realise they are only getting about 1/4 of that weight if they are lucky.........

Open fires are rare now and illegal in built up areas, technology has moved on.

I have a woodburning stove that is 77% effecient and thats a fair few years old , there are probably better ones out there now

That would solve many peoples' recycling needs around here. Inputs and outputs being the same as an open fire, the law is only there to promote efficiency? This sounds as if it is only enforceable when having significant work done, or in new builds.

Wood is cheaper than gas, a stove is super simple. There must be downsides, I know it's not "on tap" but doesn't it leave soot around the house?

Used these last night. Very hot and last ages. Biggest issue is the weight. Our store is in a shopping center and carrying just two packs for ten minutes to the car is tiring haha.