Burning Peat In Fireplace

In an insert to get a good burn you would have to have one designed for peat or coal.

Burning peat in fireplace.

Start with a hot blaze of kindling and small pieces of wood and place the dried fuel on top. 30 lbs per box. Peat briquettes have a longer burn time and a higher heat output than wood. There won t be any harm in burning peat but unless you have air from below the fire and the fuel on a grate you won t have much success burning peat well.

It s peat burning weather here in new england was just wondering what the level of satisfaction was with any of the mail order products. Perfect for your fireplace fire pit chiminea barbecue and campfire. Suitable for open fires stoves chimineas outdoor fire pits and bbq. Peat burns pretty much the same as wood or coal and the general principles are the same.

In an open fireplace you simply use an elevated grate to get a decent burn. Dried and compressed they burn hotter longer and cleaner than firewood. Here i take a look at how easy or how hard it is to get a log burner goin. Grant 1974 vespa rally 200 1974 vespa primavera 125 1963 solex 2200 1938 buick special 2008 mini cooper s 2010 mazda cx 9 1986 vw vanagon syncro westfalia 1989 vw doka tristar in the stable.

Siobhán s irish fire logs are 100 organic irish peat briquettes. You can also burn turf or sod on open hearths and in well engineered fireplaces with grates. The resulting peat brick or briquette as they are commonly known is a fuel that is virtually smokeless slow burning and easy to store and transport. 22 irish fire logs approx.

Create that homely feeling with the scent of burning real irish peat. Natural locally dug peat is still used for domestic heating in scotland and famously in ireland where the slices of peat are always called turves and the fires are turf fires even when manufactured peat briquettes are used. Approx 20 24 individual bricks in a bale of briquettes. Briquettes are widely used to heat homes and business throughout the country.