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Best Of British

This month, we're celebrating the launch of some new British products with our Best Of British campaign. Read about our new products here.

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Woodburning Stoves

We chat to a local stove installer for some installation and maintenance tips for woodburning stoves.

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The UK’s Best Briquette

What's the best briquette in our range? It's a clear winner for us. We explain why Beech Nestro are the gold standard.

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How Air Flow Affects Burning

Learn how to use the vents on your stove to become a master of wood-burning!

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Fuel Comparison Charts

We're often asked how different fuels compare. The most useful points of comparison are: Length of burn time (density); Cost; and Heat Output

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Wood fuel sustainability

Wood fuel sustainability is becoming a concern as worldwide we're using more biomass boilers and wood-burning stoves than ever before.

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Delivering Wood Fuel in Edinburgh

Like many UK cities, Edinburgh has a growing number of wood burning stoves being installed and we deliver wood fuel in Edinburgh regularly.

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Hobbit Soup

A cold, wet Sunday and the floodwaters are rising, but here in Hobbitland there's a warm, delicious aroma and the promise of hot soup soon!

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Explaining wood briquettes to guests

It's fun when a new visitor to the house spots the log basket next to the stove.

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Patio briquette burners beat midges!

We had our first barbecue of the summer the other night and all went well until the wind dropped.

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Revolutionary! This fuel will transform heating…

OK, we thought the blocks were good...but that was before we trialled the revolutionary softwood and hardwood log briquettes!

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The Heating Revolution…wood blocks rock!

A Heating Revolution! The perfect fuel for a woodstove is very dry, gives off plenty of heat, burns for a long time and is very affordable.

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The gift of warmth for Christmas

Looking for an original and very practical Christmas gift for someone with an open fire or a multifuel stove?

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How will Climate Change affect our woodlands?

Climate Change. Floods block roads and seemingly endless days of rain disrupt our lives.

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Is there a solution for Ash Dieback in the UK?

This morning several newly discovered cases of Chalara fraxinia, the ash dieback fungal disease, have been announced in Scotland.

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Can you be hot and green at the same time?

What do wood fuel customers want from their fuel? Low price, high calorific value, clean and easily handled or eco-friendly credentials?

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Autumn in the air

There was a definite feel of autumn in the air yesterday as the Wood Fuel Co-op team tidied up after the so-called 'summer' season of shows and country fairs.

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Quick fires for summer downpours

The wet weather is becoming a real drag...plants are suffering, the chooks are miserable and today the wind is making it chilly and unpleasant outside.

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How green is your wood?

When I wrote the title 'How Green is Your Wood?' I originally meant to talk about how crucial the moisture content of logs is to getting efficient heat from them

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Using a heatwave to best advantage

ot weather in Scotland, the very last thing on our minds is planning how to stay warm next winter!

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Hotmax a big hit

Yesterday our first consignment of Hotmax wood briquettes arrived from Northumberland - and within minutes we were setting fire to it, keen to see how it performs.

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Summer’s over…dogs hurry back to the stove side!

Zara the GSP is disgusted! After a blissful week of sunbathing, and having been convinced that summer had come at last, she just heard the Met Office forecast of snow and sleet - nooooo!!!!

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Rain…euch!

The wet weather we've had lately has highlighted one of the biggest blessings of the wood briquettes...the ability to get a hot fire going quickly and easily.

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It’s snowing but the wood stove is roaring!

We seem to be finally getting the snow that has been hitting much of Europe over the past week or so. It only started an hour ago here but the forecast is for more to come.

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Quick guide to choosing the best Wood Fuel for your stove and lifestyle.

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*Break - We strongly recommend you break these briquettes in half (or less for very small stoves) because they do expand whilst burning and you don't want them to overfill the fire.
*Easy to light - We always use a Firelighter and Kindling Sticks to start our fires. Most briquettes are graded four stars to light because they are quite dense and require kindling.

Notes:

  • All stove and flue combinations tend to have different burning characteristics. Fuel that works well in my stove may not work so well in your stove, and vice-versa.
  • Most modern stoves are more efficient than most older stoves, meaning a modern quality stove will burn fuel more economically and generate more heat over a longer period.
  • Always try to burn fuel with a 'lick of flame'. Smouldering fuel to try to extend burn time is bad for your stove, flue and the environment due to unburned particulate matter in the smoke.
  • Be prepared to break briquettes into smaller sections to fit into your stove comfortably. Many briquettes do expand whilst burning and you don't want them to expand onto the glass.
  • The chart above indicates which briquettes are easy to break. Some are small enough so they don't need breaking. This makes for a cleaner environment around your stove.
  • All briquettes, except Everyday Value and Hotmax, benefit hugely from using kindling to light them. I suggest five kindling sticks will be sufficient, meaning a net should last 30 days.