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We burn wood during cold days time, and smokless coal during night time, would like to burn smokeless all the time, (its more convenient), but that will be expensive for sure! Smokeless coal not cheap any more, not like used to be, i rememeber 2.99£ a bag, them days gone... 🫤

We tried new smokeles coal this year from House fuel, and its called StoveMaster 25kg bags, very similar to phurniside small briquettes, burns very clean, even stove glass stays most off time clean, lots off heat, low ash in the morning... Not tried newburn yet... 👍

The best coal is good old fashioned 100% natural lumps of coal..plenty of places still sell it..just a bit off the radar..

I have always been told to avoid pure anthracite and coals that contain petroleum as they can damage your stove and liners through time!

We have three clear views, they keep the house warm and toasty. Nice dry air too and we never have condensation in our cottage. As you say, the whole process is very rewarding. We burn hardwood only, and most recently had a huge qty of Hornbeam delivered. Fabulous output.

Look be very careful Newburn is seriously good for heat and longevity, But it contains petroleum which will melt your firebars quicker than other fuel.

What is the ash residue like, as in how much is left. I'm currently using Excel which burns hot and leaves very little ash, I tried other coals and they did not burn as hot or long and left so much ash I had to empty the tray during the middle of the day. Thanks.

We've had a woodburner for 40+ plus years and its always worth the effort and mess to light a fire. Would never have a home without one. Clean our glass with a scouring pad and " the pink stuff" only when it needs it.

I i was interested what other people thought of this. Apparently it has anthracite in it according to my coal merchant. I order two bags to try out with my usual bags of newburn plus to try it , Same price . It is by far superior in my morso Squirrel to my usual smokeless coal . I will be going with it for the future. Also it has So little ash and long burning. Logs are nice but don’t last like coal . I like both but use coal mainly.

My sister has a fireplace. When my nephews were little, 6 and 4 I got to their house early one winter morning, started the fire before my nephews got up. Once the fire was going I got them dressed and ready for school and decide to let them try toast cooked on the fire for breakfast. Before school they had eaten half a loaf of bread between them. So yes seeing the joy on their little faces when they tasted toast from an open fire for the first time was worth the effort. Nice video mate.👍🏻

I installed my own multi-fuel stove about 3 months ago and started burning kiln-dried birch to begin with. I was literally getting through a LOT of wood - bags and bags of it - and it was starting to get worrying. I sadly lost my father about a year ago and he'd always order wood, coal and anthracite which he'd keep in the 'wood shed'. I started burning a few random lumps of coal (medium sized) to see what the stove would do and I honestly was so surprised at just how good a mixture of wood and coal has been. Since I've got a good tonne's worth of coal with which to use, I have started mixing the amounts of both to approximately 25% birch and 75% coal. My room has honeslty never been so warm - it's ridiculous! My stove sits nicely in the middle range, yet the heat I get from it with coal is insane! A single piece of birch probably lasted me a good 30-40 minutes before I'd need to add more fuel. With the coal bed going I can leave it for at least 3 hours+ before ever worrying myself about having to check up on it. Even then, a simple, skinny piece of wood or some kindling is enough to get it going again. I'll then add on half a dozen chunks of coal and let it do its thing once more. The birch was costing me £4.99 from Home Bargains and it's been a brilliant product that fits nicely into my stove, burns well and is extremely competitive for the amount I get in each bag. However, after realising that I'd need a good 4 x bags per week to keep me going (16 bags per month) I realised that it was way too costly at just under £80 in total (and numerous trips to the store). By adding in the coal I genuinely use a single bag of wood each week, and by having the coal for free (esentially) it's made me not only a LOT happier in regards to how much I'll now be saving, but also by how much more warmth it affords. Wood/coal 25%/75% is, for me, what I'm going with from now on - it's brilliant!

Wood ash on a damp cloth or kitchen towel. Works a treat. Clean off with a clean cloth or paper towel. Works a treat.

I've heard that long term smokeless fuel briquettes can destroy your chimney liner and Pitt the glass but burning wood doesn't. That's why I haven't gone for burning stuff like that. It could be a very expensive repair in the future, but if I was struggling to get wood at some point I'd probably give these a go.

Wow I think my stove needs a service! I have a back boiler on mine and use either wood or smokeless coal but I don't get that kind of heat with 8 kgs! Think the one we have now is homeheat or something. Love your channel thanks for sharing

Keep up the good work

Stay away from wild fire smokeless as they are pants..

Newburn by far the best in my opinion..

Have started going with coal over wood. I buy kiln dried wood and find that I go through it very quickly so coal is cheaper for me. Can you try the Homefire Premium Ovals? Cheers

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We live in France where log burners are used almost everywhere. They provide good, warm heating at a reasonable price. The heat you get from a log burner is far superior than any other form of heating as it warms the soul as well as the room. Hard work to load, stack, chop and transport wood but well worth the effort. I'm guessing firewood is cheaper here than in the UK too but not sure about that. I paid 312 euros for 4 stere of season oak in 50cm length for this winter, delivered.

Nice we video. We have a large multi fuel stove no back boiler. We buy antracite stove eggs. Every morning we fill the stove with a full bucket of flue. Get the stove going and then close it down fully. The flue temp is about 150 degrees but the burn time is between 20 to 24 hours. If there is wind then that time will decrease. But on average we use one 50kg bag of eggs each week. With the long lower temperature burn the room is always warm about 25 degrees and or room is large open plan.

Wood stoves heat you twice. Once when you stack the wood and once when it burns.

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Not sure the make it is a Multi fuel. We put some mom at the start as a base Then Kindling. And a log on top. All the other time is if we're Going Out for more than 2 hours.

Hi ,I have been burning these briquette things along with a few logs as my main log supply is not seasoned enough in a Franco Belge log burner, but I have found I need a hell of a lot of air for them to burn. Actually Lidls sell them for £6.50 a bag [10kg] cheapest we have found.

i found these in home bargains today!! i got 2 packs so going to see how they go. i put 1 on some soft wood sawdust briquette embers ans it took a little time to catch but im gona see hlw they go :) if they are as good as they seem in your video ill go grab a few mlre packs and use them along side logs and sawdust briquettes

Evening. I get all my wood for free and enjoy chopping it. I find it good therapy. I do. Buy coal off a local coal Edmund, who bags it up himself? 25 kilo bag is 15 pounds. Depends on what you want. We only burn coal if we're Going Out for 3 or 4 hours.

Having a stove is like looking after a child. You have to clean it,feed it and keep checking it to make sure everything is okay 😂.

Nothing worth having is easy.

We have a 100% rood config stove. We have a antique coke stove in another room. Buggering about with it one winter i put anthracite on it one day - burns like kryptonite! - bit dusty but burns hot. PS would put another log stove in before if source another coke stove.

We for years used the sawdust brickets They were cheap, clean, stackable, burnt hot n long a full 10 kg pack would give you 12 hrs 250c burning. They WERE 50% of buying in 50cm lengthed n seasoned stuff. THEN Post Ukrainian invader all energy prices rocketed the brickettes more than doubled in price. We went back to burning logs (they didn't shoot up in price). We go through about a cube a month niv to end of feb. We always buy in a min of 2 cubes - store then on a covered trailer and then bring them into the house daily as needed. We run a 15kw boiler stove that dumps it's excess heat into the radiator system. We have a flue control on the chimney (handy for hot / slow burning) Model Hunter Herald 14 (full wraparound Wood config) i got shipped out from the UK Floor space in the House is about 250 sq mtrs. We have gas CH but very rarely use it. Big thing i found is to always source seasoned dry stuff. Keep it reasonably dry. Make it easy to clean the flue ideally every 4-6 weeks or so Personally, i wouldn't keep so much wood inthe living room as you'll get infested with wood lice etc. We don't have a dust pan do we leave the wood ash in longer. E spray the wood ash with a fine spray bottle prior to shoveling it out (keeps the dust down in the livin room). Never used the expensive stove glass cleaners - a spray with some normal glass cleaner and a scrape with a stove glass scraper (pick one up in a Poundstretcher) - cleans it a treat and lasts for years. One if the little heat-activated stove fans really seems to make a difference. Particularly as your stove is recessed into the old fireplace. We're lucky as we can haul n store bigger quantities of wood. We used to cut in the woods, length, haul, split, stack n store our wood needs. Life is too short for that malarkey. That's why people opted for central heating. Have fun - stay warm.

Best thing I have invested in .I spend my week end with a saw and pallets people have giving me cutting up. And gran kids running around stacking them .cheap labour only costs me a hot chocolate with marshmallows lol

My wife would go ape if I brought the wheelbarrow into the front room!

Lidl sell them under a different name @ the same price.

morning, you don't need the glass cleaner, wet kitchen towel cleans just as well, leave the ash, I only empty mine every 2/3 weeks, if your fire has a rear outlet move the chimney , you'll find a big difference in the heat output.

I would say after nine years of having a wood stove and no other form of heating that a wood burner is a cheaper form of heating.

Having a log burner needs thinking about and preparing and we have a back up log burner and about 30 tonnes of seasoned wood in small and large diameters and of all different types, ours slumbers for about 11 hours and it slumbers throughout the day and keeps the house warm, its nowhere as messy as people think and it is about 1 hours work a week and the effort is the trade off between effort and costs.

You said thats you for the week, my back side that wood you've got at fireside will only last for the day ....

Having had solid fuel in my properties for the past 40 years, initially as a complement to a gas system ( the house had 16 rooms ) and latterly to a much smaller property with a multifuel stove as the only form of heating/hot water , I am disgusted at the lack of fuel in this country. Our reserves of coal remain untapped and redundant yet China and India continue to develop fossil fuel energy sources - we on the other hand persist in funding so called green projects with limited or negative effects on the power grid. I had to call it quits with solid fuel - if you have a reliable source of seasoned hardwood ( at little or no cost ) then with a bit of labour all is good. If not , sourcing solid fuel has been challenging. - UK manufacture of coking fuel stopped several years ago - we then had the one option of briquettes - the heat output on these deteriorated markedly over a couple of years , matched by an increase in the amount of ash - basically filler. At £ 14.50 /25Kg this was expensive and not nearly hot enough to heat the home - sunbrite had done this no problem at £ 4.50 /25Kg - somebody is taking the mickey here. Sad to say I installed a new Worcester combi - running cost is 50% of solid fuel, but with complete central heating and hot water not just one comfy room , no dust , no cold morning starts and no humping 25Kg bags about . The stove is still there, waiting for the next power cut with an installed led flame effect insert - looks really well.

We have a gallery 8 multi fuel not an expensive stove but well worth the money wood through the day and a good shovel of smokeless last thing at night and its still going in morning ready for a blast with wood again

Have a go at olive wood, burns very hot. My mum had one load of logs that was fruit wood and blackthorne.

The clock is a good stove.

Some wood burners are meant for recesses as they push the heat out forward as having on in a fire place is not that efficient if it isn't. Modern wood burners can be too efficient in burning as they go through wood like no tomorrow, rubbish if you are relying on heat as you have to get up and put more wood on or you face a cold morning. Sawdust over a fire can keep it smouldering all night. You can leave the ash tray half full though as it seems to slow it down. Cleaning the glass with wet newspaper and ash works well. Old cast iron ones work best I have found. I've used various ones even argas. I have not had central heating for over 10yrs.The best one I have used (I am sure there are others) Jotul 602. It will burn for 8 hrs loaded up. Wood choice is down to availability as long as its seasoned. Woods like pine and, birch I use for getting the longer lasting logs, ash, oak, robinia ticking over. 4 to 1. I like to put orange peel and bay leaves on top as it fills the room with a nice aroma. Kindling is a faff, nature provides sticks. Wet damp logs block chimneys with soot. The best way to tell if your logs are good and your flow is spot on is when it's roaring you don't get smoke but just a heat haze from the top of chimney. Yes they can be a faff, dust but being organised there is nothing better than coming in from the wet and cold to be met by a ticking over burner 😉

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The brazier coal burns hot I've found, but doesn't really have legs. I live on a narrow boat, so coal is my heat soarce through the night in autumn and winter, wood in the day.. Try and get it off market place or the nearby forest, windfall only. I've found with coal that every fire burns different and everyone on the canal has a favourite. My favourite is excel, good heat output and last much longer than the brazier. If you live near a boat yard they usually have a few choices. One thing's for sure, I have to get up to top up, last thing you want to do on a boat is let it go out. It works out bloody expensive too in winter, luckily late spring to mid September I rarely have a fire, I have cereal heating when needed. Go for the best coal you can afford, but different fires like different coals.

We have a 25 year old Morso Dove, multifuel stove. Made sure we had a rear (not top) flue, with a t-junction to 1. make the flame route longer 2. easier to clean from the bottom of the t-junction 3. Any stuff that comes down the chimney, heavy rain, snow, doesn't go into the stove. We run wood in the evenings autumn until November-ish, then run anthracite 24/7 until April. It heats the entire 3 bed detached house, at 1300 feet above sea level in the rural north pennines. Only relight the stove every 6 weeks or so as the anthracite just needs riddling, ash emptied every day and more coal added at night. Anthracite can be burnt really low, all day and night, needing little attention until we're back from work in the evening and it never messes up the glass We've a byre filled with 3 months of coal and 4 months of wood (kiln dried). We easily survived 2 weeks with no electricity during storm Arwen, plus the oil fired aga - (it's also a cooker/toaster/clothes drier/kettle/room warmer) and 2600 litres of oil, and the Aga can run without electricity. The house was cosy and warm, and a few candles, plus lateen, we were sorted well. The house would have been uninhabitable without the Morso and aga and a few of our neighbours made a run for hotels or relatives as they were all electricity (Up from Londoners :) )! Love your videos - stay independent. Ready for when te SHTF ! Wood warms you x3. Cutting/stacking/burning.

We have two good quality log burners from the people on the IOW. They are slightly bigger than we need and we would normally only run one if needed. We buy seasoned logs from a local supplier by the truck load for £300 which lasts about a year. We have two log stores which keeps them nice and dry. Over the years the loads have got smaller and a heaped load is now a lever load. I buy kindling from a local farm store and cut it down to size of about half inch square. About six sticks of kindling and a couple of small logs always starts o.k. and when the flue is warm load the fire and shut it in. Get the sweep in once a year and get him to service the fire. WD40 or white spirit both clean the glass. We don't use the coal internals to the fires as you can fit more logs in without them, and clear out the wood ash once a week. I bring the logs in in two big posh looking bins that take about 15 logs or a load of kindling each. I like seasoned wood better than kiln dried and usually burn mostly birch.

Hey...great video! It was good to see how someone else manages their stove maintenance. Mine is similar. I have two stoves, a Clearview Pioneer 4oo installed 10 yrs ago in the living room. I also have a Deans forge Foxworthy installed in the conservatory about seven years ago. For me they were the best thing I did in my house especially the conservatory. The conservatory was closed off in Winter but now Im in there most days with the wood burner going and I love it. I tend to buy kiln dried logs in bulk and occasionally burn smokeless fuel on really cold days. I would never be without my wood burners. My friends and family love them when they come round and its just a pleasure to sit and look into the flames on horribly cold days.