[Closed] which smokeless coal for a stove ?

You're probably better off burning wood. If you find the right tree surgeon you'll get wood (chortle) pretty cheap. My mate burns smokeless in his fire and finds it quite expensive.

We use a formed coal looks like round briquettes, I forget it's full name but initials are FSB. Don't think it's smokeless though but can't see how that matters if you burning logs too, it provides a good long heat with a great ember base.

We probably only use 2-3 shovels fulls a day with the logs so not expensive at all, can't find a receipt but £17.50 a 25kg bag is roughly what we pay.

My old man owns a fuel merchant business. Give him a call on Monday on 01234 376722 and tell him I told you to call and he will give some good trade prices. Only thing is you may have to buy full/ half tonne at a time. He is also one of the biggest suppliers of logs in the uk

My chimney sweep friend has just advised me against using smokeless fuel on my stove, I was using some Surefire last year along with mainly wood.

He has swept several chimneys recently with SS liners which have ranged from having lots of pinholes to being crumbly ruins. These were not old either, less than 5 years.
My chimney is twinwall stainless so I am sticking to wood now.

He reckons the chemicals in the smokeless fuel stick to the sides of the chimney if there is some condensation at the top of the chinmey mainly and create a corrosive substance which sits there and eats your chimney.
Clay liners seem to cope with it okay though.

I found the surefire okay when I was using it although a bit boring. It doesn't really give a nice flame like a log, it just sits there glowing.

If you burn smokeless fuel you need to ensure the liner (if stainless)is for smokeless (904) not the cheaper 304 as the eflux especialy when slumbering is acidic and will eat through liners.
Google and there is plenty of info

We use a smokeless fuel for our Morso's, with a stainless liner in one and a ceramic one in the other. Generally keep a base of smokeless with logs on top.
A good quality smokeless burns hotter than wood, will keep in overnight if you need it too, and shouldn't affect your liner.
Cheaper ones, often from strange parts of eastern Eurpoe are high in sulphurs so will rot out liners quickly. They are often of poor quality coal products, so can burn too hot so's to buckle or distort a stove ( less likely with cast iron stoves like Morso's ) so sweeps have told me. Also, coal will be similar, but can leave 'fly ash' ( very fine ash ) in the liners so blocking them unless swept several times a year. Our sweep noticed it when one year we used up a load of coal to get rid of it.

Logs are ok, though different types of wood will burn differently and some leaving more tars than others. Unseasoned wood will leave more tars due to the water content. If it's not properly seasoned, burn some solid fuel with it as the hotter exhausts will reduce tar build up.

Look up a solid fuel supplier in your locality, they are more likely to supply good stuff and will be cheaper than your petrol station. Different merchants will keep in different products each being.....different! They might well deliver free for an amount ordered, and some will do 'summer prices' until about now, and might do bulk orders and deliver in smaller lots as you burn.

I'd recommend smokeless + logs on top, it also helps vary heat content, provides alternatives if logs/fule supply going down.

But it's your choice!
cheers
Q