Stove solid fuels - best types

Fiskar

Have a 5 kw stove and have used the following with varying degrees of sucess.

- BDiamond Doubles - good and work well in the stove

- Household doubles - Seem to be every bit as good as BD doubles but 20% cheaper to buy.

- Union nuggets - Useless to start a fire but when going will still be embers the following morning to re-start the fire. When they get really going they burn hot.

- BnM briquettes - quicker to burn than Union Nuggets but seem to give out better heat quickly. Obviously they will not last a long.

- Now trying Phurnicite - which is supposed to be Antracite - lignite mix. Cannot comment too much on them as it seems impossible to get a bag of it in Meath.

Overall, size matters in a small stove, Union nuggets are too big and fall al over the place, Doubles are fine and phurnicite are like pebbles on a beach and would apprea to be the best of the bunch.

Cost would be big factor with fuels above ranging from 12€ a bag to 18€ a bag (all 40kg)

What are you guys using and moe importantly the cost verus the heat output?

paddy147

400 euro for 184 bales of briquettes.

I burn them in conjunction with 2 very large felled sycamore trees that I aqquired for free.Fully insulated house,so the house hold the heat very very well.


Oh and the stove is a Stovax Riva 66 8kw multi fuel inset stove.

crazy_lady

paddy147 wrote: »

400 euro for 184 bales of briquettes.

I burn them in conjunction with 2 very large felled sycamore trees that I aqquired for free.Fully insulated house,so the house hold the heat very very well.


Oh and the stove is a Stovax Riva 66 8kw multi fuel inset stove.

Paddy, could I ask where you bought this stove? looking for something similar, are using with a back boiler?
Thanks!

paddy147

crazy_lady wrote: »

Paddy, could I ask where you bought this stove? looking for something similar, are using with a back boiler?
Thanks!

Buckley Fireplaces.

Heating Distributors and also Lamartine Fireplaces are also Stovax agents/dealers too.

There was a good bit of work involved in turning the old open fireplace into an "inset" fire place to suit the Stovax Riva stove..

paddy147

demanufactured

Ecobrite is one of the best smokeless coals.

Fiskar

Paddy147, nice job. Good to see BnM are shrinkl wrapping the bales, mine are indoors as they swell and fall aprt under shelter outside.
Where did you get the black granite or marble plinth in front of the stove and what thickness is it? Have to plan a job for the kitchen with one of those with sligthly smaller width.

There are so many fuels around but at the price you paid for a pallet of briquettes (2.17 per bale), from memory a bale of briquettes is 10 kg so you nearly have the equivalennt of 1.84 tonne of "coal" but at a better price per bale. I would have thought coal would be better performance wise but you cannot argue with that.

Is that price freely available through your supplier?

paddy147

Fiskar wrote: »

Paddy147, nice job. Good to see BnM are shrinkl wrapping the bales, mine are indoors as they swell and fall aprt under shelter outside.
Where did you get the black granite or marble plinth in front of the stove and what thickness is it? Have to plan a job for the kitchen with one of those with sligthly smaller width.

There are so many fuels around but at the price you paid for a pallet of briquettes (2.17 per bale), from memory a bale of briquettes is 10 kg so you nearly have the equivalennt of 1.84 tonne of "coal" but at a better price per bale. I would have thought coal would be better performance wise but you cannot argue with that.

Is that price freely available through your supplier?

Granite hearth is 40mm thick.

Granite Plinth is 18mm thick.


Both were got from Buckley Fireplaces and Stoneyard in Stepaside,at the foothills of the Dublin Mountains.
Briquettes are from "Estonia" (not BnM) and my friends dads friend got them in for me through his freight/haulage company.

Aenaes

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