Hahahaha this geezer must be on another plannet saying your not getting the same result as a fully rammed fire with coal compared to one small log 🤦♂️🤦♂️😂😂😂😂
My facebook feed is full of ads lately for those heat logs. Everyone saying how great they are so here I am, watching this and the results are exactly as I suspected. Cheers matey
These never will be cost efective, so disapointing they not even give good heat... We use seasoned logs during a day, and smokeles coal during night... I found best to buy off season (spring/summer), u get best prices.. I buy un-seasoned logs from tree surgeons nearly half the price, and dry it up my self. Smokeless coal no choice really, just have to shop around, or buy in bulk to safe overall...
Whats wrong with just using the Night Briquettes burning low and slow overnight and using logs from the embers in the morning. I do thatband works a treat
My log burner heats my central heating and hot water and i have tried a few briquettes and I find the heat laughable to. so I'm still on coal and wood .and yes wood suppliers are taking the piss as more people are turning to log burner for cheap fuel. but if the prices go up more people will turn back to gas and the log suppliers will cry as there will be one to sell to. joke will be on them.
You can’t compare 1 heat log to 2 oak logs and a couple of shovels of coal!! You need to compare the weight of the log and the weight of the oak and coal surely!!
Crazy expensive way to heat your home These Lekto fuel logs are 5 X the cost of mains gas per kwh. Always check the price per kwh and compare to mains gas or electricity.
@@alex_ob1 Wood is about 5kwh per kilogram of heat output when burnt. Divide the cost of a kg of these wood bricks by 5 to get price per kwh and compare to mains gas etc.
you normally get heat logs from supermarkets etc and occasionally they are good prices, they burn really hot and look similar to these but with a hole through the middle down the length of the heat log. Not sure about these I tend to assume any thing with glowing reviews all over the internet is fake to be honest
im like you look for alternatives but iv def stopped buying coal as too expensive but i got a chainsaw for birthday and i go out looking for fallen trees n then get em aswell as pallets from wharehouses at min im sourceing all my wood for free as like you say the logs have shot up in price
At the end of the day we are burning what we can for as little as we can. Again I used Facebook, a local timber company that build roof trusses etc fill up the ton bulk bags with decent off cuts. Ok I have to cut some down to size but for £20 a ton bag it’s a win win candle. Some People want £100 per bag for logs 🤔 I can get 5 ton bags for their one. I empty the transit van of painting gear and go and get 3 bags a time, think smarter 🤔🫡. Some people paying £20 a 20kg bag for logs 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not an accurate comparison, if you filled the stove with logs and coal but only put one briquette in. I know myself the briquettes are not great but you at least need to make a fair comparison.
I'm sure the instructions are to use your usual fuel to get the temperature up, then add these. It didn't look like you had the fire going well enough to begin with. The night briquettes are just to keep a slow burn. I'm happy with mine using them this way.
My advice to you candle is bin the logs and coal, do what I said below in the previous comment. £100 for 5 ton bags last me months and months for non treated timber 👍🏻
When you spray new builds do you do woodwork first to completion then walls then ceilings thinking getting into spraying myself as its killing me working like a dog onsite. Thanks mark
Solid fuel is the way to go I think. I know it's getting more and more expensive but in my opinion it works out a much cheaper option than wood. Hotmax fuel logs are brilliant for a quick warm up but solid fuel is better for keeping the fire going all day.
Honest question, do you know how to make a proper fire and how to use a log burner? That log won't do anything if the bed you're putting it on is so small and cold. You get a good, hot bed of ash and coals and those logs will kick out the heat, they do for me!
This seems to be a problem of storing the heat, which seems to be zero in this situation and a big one in the united islands of monarchy(keep your independence who can!). Hot fire, big heat, only now, nothing to store the heat but the plate steel of the fireplace. Most of the energy goes "to the birds". (A saying, to let the heat out of the house go to waste. Birds like those places for reasons). Build a big fireplace to store the heat, brick, stone, concrete. Have the hot gasses/air give all they can to the mass, not just going from the fireplace straight to the sky. Burn it hot when heating, but after that you can keep a small fire to maintain. Because when built well, most of the heat goes in the mass of the fireplace and not trough a pipe to the sky. It means you can sleep when there is no fire, because the mass has the energy stored. The next day you dont need to build a hellfire to heat EVERYTHING FOR 5 MINUTES, but keep a steady fire to heat up the mass. For some reasons to us nordic people pressed coal briquets is only used in bbq in summer. Not as a heat source in winter. We know how to get heat out of wood and get the most of it............. And for TOMTHE,,, i commented here because you are completely right. Big log needs support. one compressed "log" is still a log Needs a bit support ofcourse. For candleman: Put a 8x8x20 pure log in a fireplace as the only one and how it burns on its own. Does it heat your shitty fireplace hot enough?
Poor comparison there. If you filled the fire with the same volume of briquettes as you did with the coal you would have got more heat from the briquettes. As much as coal, I don't know but we both know which is better for three environment.
Did you watch the video? Why have you introduced environmental considerations into this discussion when this is not what this post was about? The point of the video is the economic and heating benefits of alternatives fuel sources to coal and wood, the environmental impact of burning any fuels is a different discussion completely. By replacing wood/coal with this type of fuel source will financially cost far more to gain an equivalent heat output, which is something the suppliers of the fuel are misleading consumers on. So for a non scientific test, this is very helpful and also matches my own disappointing experience with this fuel source.
