Compressed wood products

Depends on the manufacturer, some burn better than others. Which one are you looking at burning?

See if you can find these: https://www.ecolutioncanada.com/

Albrown, the can-wicks work well as does the mirabuches, they are often on sale at patrickmorin.com.

I don't remember what the brand is but the home depot has a comp log sold in boxes that is also
very good, but more expensive.

Don’t burn the wax logs in your stove. No bueno.

They do work good. You have to careful how you load them. They can get VERY hot and overfire easily if you put too many in or dont pack them tight.

There was a deal going for the Eco Bricks at my local hardware store. Thought I'd try them out. Bought 7 12 packs for $25. The work really well. They burn faster than your typical split, but you don't need to use many of them because they seemed to burn hot.

I started using some Envirobricks http://envirobrick.net that are available at some Tractor Supply Store locations. Work well, produce a lot of heat for a fair amount of time. 3 packs of 6 bricks for $10.

I burned three 12 packs of bio- blocks the past 3 days. I am very impressed with how hot and long they burn. Just annoyed I had to drive an hour north into central jersey to get them.

TWilk117 said:

I burned three 12 packs of bio- blocks the past 3 days. I am very impressed with how hot and long they burn. Just annoyed I had to drive an hour north into central jersey to get them.

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The Enviro bricks are available at TSC in Sicklerville.

Jan Pijpelink said:

The Enviro bricks are available at TSC in Sicklerville.

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Do they have the 6 packs of smaller bricks?
I’ll look online. But if you know for sure please let me know. My TSC in Southampton only has the large ones.

I also like the bio blocks because they are the perfect size for my little stove. I just throw 1 or two on some coals, open the air for 20 seconds, and they are lit.

The really annoying thing is that when I stopped in a fireplace/ stove and patio shop near me when I was redoing my hearth/ preparing stove install, and they had a giant pile of bio blocks. Once my stove was set I went back, and they were sold out, and not getting anymore until next burning season.
I went to an ACE hardware in Princeton and bought them out.

TWilk117 said:

Do they have the 6 packs of smaller bricks?
I’ll look online. But if you know for sure please let me know. My TSC in Southampton only has the large ones.

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They have the 6 packs. I use them in our 1.6 cft stove. Perfect size. I burn wood in the bigger stove.

Right on. Thank you. I’ll have to take a ride down yonder. My brother works down that way but I’m not sure I want to pawn that deed off on him. @Jan Pijpelink

Funny, now TSC online says they do have 6 packs in Southampton. I’ll have to give them a call. I hate driving anywhere around here.

Edit: it funny cause I’ve never seen the 6 packs there. Ever.

TWilk117 said:

Funny, now TSC online says they do have 6 packs in Southampton. I’ll have to give them a call. I hate driving anywhere around here.

Edit: it funny cause I’ve never seen the 6 packs there. Ever.

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Don't buy them out in Sicklerville, I might need some.

Jan Pijpelink said:

Don't buy them out in Sicklerville, I might need some.

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Laugh out loud! I’d rather cut my foot off and burn it than drive to Sicklerville. I hate driving right down 38 to Southampton and it’s like maybe 10 minuets. But there’s so many f-omg red lights and traffic. Yikes! You and I are pretty close.

I loaded up my F400 with 5 of the smaller bricks that come ina a 6 pack at TSC last night at 11 and woke up at 6 and found a couple almost baseball sized hunks still glowing. I still am trying to figure out the best way to load and light them. Good heat and a much longer burn than all the dead wood I have scrounged up lately. The blue secondary flames were mesmerizing and I just watched them for about two hours making sure I didn’t over fire before I went to bed.

EbS-P said:

I loaded up my F400 with 5 of the smaller bricks that come ina a 6 pack at TSC last night at 11 and woke up at 6 and found a couple almost baseball sized hunks still glowing. I still am trying to figure out the best way to load and light them. Good heat and a much longer burn than all the dead wood I have scrounged up lately. The blue secondary flames were mesmerizing and I just watched them for about two hours making sure I didn’t over fire before I went to bed.

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If you load all 6: 3 E-W and 3 N-S on top. No more than an inch space between every 2 bricks. Shut air down at 300F.
One fire starter between 2 lower bricks.

Liberty Bricks. $180/ton at the facility we're lucky to be near.

Easy starts for the cat and good long burns in the Fireview. Minimal ash. Makes it very easy to get 30-lbs of wood into a 1.8-cu-ft firebox.

I typically arrange the 2-lb bricks like this:

3 stacks of 3 across the back(after raking coals front + center where the airwash will hit them.)
1 stack of 2 on either side of coals.
1 or 2 on top of coals.

Disclaimer:
Know how well you can control the air on your stove before trying an all-brick load. I can turn down the draft as much as necessary to control the burn of this fuel.
YMMV.

I have been burning them intermittently the past few weeks.
Tractor supply kept running out everyone has caught on to them this year.

I like the 3 big ones better than the 6 small ones. Usually with hardwood in my jotul castine I get 4-6 hour burns during the day and can get some coals in the morning if I use oak only or rounds.

With these blocks mixed with wood I wake up to a full bed of coals and a 200 degree stove.

Last week I had a 16 hour burn I could not believe it.

Just need to watch the air once I get to 200 I close it down and it cruises to 5-600 hundred.

They are well worth it

Jan Pijpelink said:

I started using some Envirobricks http://envirobrick.net that are available at some Tractor Supply Store locations. Work well, produce a lot of heat for a fair amount of time. 3 packs of 6 bricks each for $10.

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I just tried these... much better than the 20 pound 3 pack... less mess.. more dense

EbS-P said:

I still am trying to figure out the best way to load and light them.

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Best I’ve found is to just replace one medium spilt with three or four of the bricks. I put them at the bottom of the load between whatever your front and back splits are.