Sure I saw a thread on here recently suggesting a brand of briquettes that had some good bulk deals available - buggered if I can find it though!
Any suggestions - north west / south manc based.
Cheers
Has anyone had any success with the papier-mâché type home made briquettes?
cheers drac
"Has anyone had any success with the papier-mâché type home made briquettes?"
you mean the wet some paper and compress it down using your briquette maker and let it dry.....then burn it
if so - the grand parents had a go at this back in the 80s when QVC were selling them on sky as the latest great thing...... it uses more paper than you think , produces alot of ash and is very time consuming.
Noticed Aldi had tonnes in at the weekend. Looked like a wood equivalent of a cereal bar.
A friend tried the wet paper gadget yonks ago. The blocks took forever to dry out.
Thanks, I thought it probably wouldn't be as easy or good as they suggested....
Has anyone had any success with the papier-mâché type home made briquettes?
Burn pretty well, if you have a sauce of free paper (I collect the shredding from my office) it's worth it. As said above, produces allot of ash. I normally burn them with a single wood log.
Needs to be a very sunny week for them to dry out (summer only). Takes a good few days if left in the sun.
It is a pain in the bum making them though.
[i]it uses more paper than you think , produces alot of ash and is very time consuming.[/i]
sort of good enough in combination with wood, but next to pointless on it's own. Still a massive waste of time though.