Do briquettes produce less ash than traditional logs?

Do briquettes produce less ash than traditional logs?

Are you wondering if wood briquettes are better than traditional logs? Are you wondering if they produce less ash? Wood briquettes are much better than traditional logs, offering you a wealth of fantastic benefits, including offering a clean burn, which means they produce less ash than traditional logs.

What Are Wood Briquettes?

Wood briquettes are manufactured briquettes, comprising of compressed wood by-products, offering you an alternative to traditional logs. They are ideal for wood burning stoves and fire places, arriving as a compressed hollow log or as a compressed block. Wood briquettes are also often referred to as heat logs.

How Are Wood Briquettes Manufactured?

 Our briquettes are made by compressing sawdust, wood chips, and other wood by-products. You can purchase them as hardwood briquettes, softwood briquettes, or a mixture of hardwood and softwood. Our briquettes are one hundred percent wood and do not contain glues, adhesives, or chemicals. When compressed, they turn into a dense block.

Environmentally Friendly

 Before we take a look at how you can reduce ash by changing to wood briquettes, you will be delighted to know our briquettes are environmentally friendly, made from industrial sawmill waste, reducing the need to cut down more trees to make the briquettes, while not including any dangerous chemicals and adhesives.

Thanks to their very low moisture content, the meet governmental plans that plan to ban the sale of wet wood. Our wood briquettes are all Ready to Burn certified for the UK, and due to their low moisture content, they do not produce dangerous pollutants into the air. They are cleaner, not only for the environment, but also for your home.

A Clean Burn

Our clients love our briquettes, because they provide a clean burn. What does this mean? It means that our briquettes don’t produce as much ash as traditional logs, reducing how much time you clean your wood burning stove or fireplace after each fire. They also produce less creosote, which means less build up in your chimney or flue, reducing the risk of chimney fires, helping to reduce maintenance costs, such as calling in chimney sweeps.

They Do Not Require Constant Maintenance

There is nothing better than a fire in the home on a cold winters night, but having to get up every half an hour to add fuel to the fire is frustrating. It’s not uncommon for homeowners to get busy and not realise their fire has burned out, as they weren’t there to add more logs to the fire. Our briquettes are easy to light and once lit, they burn for a long time, thanks to their dense nature and their low moisture content. Rather than using the fire to dry the wood, these briquettes offer outstanding heat output, while burning for hours.

Easy Storage

In addition to producing less ash and smoke, briquettes are very easy to store, arriving at your home in a box or a palette of ninety six boxes. These boxes can be stored indoors and with their consistent shape, they are also very easy to handle. Being in a box, you only need to remove what you need for your fire, leaving the rest in a dry space in their box.

Conclusion

While we all love a warm fire on a cold night, we also enjoy a hassle free fire experience. Our Ready to Burn certified briquettes offer you less ash, less smoke, a good heat output, and a longer burn. They are one hundred percent natural and environmentally friendly, offering less mess, low maintenance, and simple storage.