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Smokeless Coal For Open Fire

  • 26-01-2021 08:42PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭


    Hi.

    Have tried 2 brands of smokeless coal recently on an open fire (apologies, but i can't remember the brands) and i found them both bad. Very little flames coming from the coal. Not an a par with regular (unsmokeless!!) coal. Doesn't seem to be any more heat from the smokeless either.
    Can anyone recommend some good smokeless coal brands? I like something that lights quickly and gives a good flame.

    Thanks.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,504 ✭✭✭phormium


    None that I have tried are any good, ends up looking like an electric fire without even the flicker! They don't give a good flame after they initially heat up, you just get the glow, they take quite a while to light and heat up too.

    My solution has been to buy logs as well so that once it starts to just look like a picture of a fire I throw in a log, that gives a few flames at least for effect.

    It's not a patch on real coal I'm afraid and burns the backside out of the grate much quicker too :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    phormium wrote: »
    None that I have tried are any good, ends up looking like an electric fire without even the flicker! They don't give a good flame after they initially heat up, you just get the glow, they take quite a while to light and heat up too.

    My solution has been to buy logs as well so that once it starts to just look like a picture of a fire I throw in a log, that gives a few flames at least for effect.

    It's not a patch on real coal I'm afraid and burns the backside out of the grate much quicker too :)

    Have been doing that with the logs also!!! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,575 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Smokeless coal doesn't, and shouldn't have much of a flame.

    I have found eco glo very good.
    Arigna cosy glo works well in open fires.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,541 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    I moved to kiln dried Ash entirely and it's been perfect, no going back.


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