Home made fire bricketts...

[Yorkshire Andy]

Came across this gadget in our budget department store £9.99

I think I'm a bit strong for it as I bent one of the levers first time...

Anyhow re bent it and...


So I have a good supply of sawdust and wood shavings...

So tried 2 options cup flour and 2ltr water andva good glug of PVA and 2l water... And mixed



Stirred the shavings into the "glue" solution


Now after the first go the excess liquid pissed all over the floor so a dig in the shed and a paint roller tray allows me to catch the run off and re use



Anyway




I have found the flour and water bricks keep their compressed shape the PVA ones are expanding like bread prooving in a warm room

[Yorkshire Andy]

Once dried out I will update and burn them in our chimnea which with a bit of tubing gives simple back up cooking

[preppingsu]

Please keep us updated. We have a brickette maker like that. Did newspapers one year. Took ages to dry but burnt really well.

My OH was wondering about wood shavings as we generate a lot. Not sure about burning the glue ones though.

[Yorkshire Andy]

That's why I've tried both PVA was sat in the shed so meh and about 100ml in 2 l of water and used across 4 bricks I'm hoping all will be good

Other idea is a bit of wall paper paste powder

I work in the timber trade and most places can't sell wet or hard wood shavings to anyone so I can get what I need even pine shavings for the pet trade retail at £5.10 per 25kg and those £1 fire bricks are less than 1kg

[Arzosah]

I work in the timber trade and most places can't sell wet or hard wood shavings to anyone so I can get what I need even pine shavings for the pet trade retail at £5.10 per 25kg and those £1 fire bricks are less than 1kg

That's interesting to know! I've got an old fashioned timber merchant really near to me, gathering up a few bagsfuls of shavings and letting them season somewhere to use in the garden, even, would be great. Using them for this too, of course

Thanks Andy.

[Plymtom]

I like this but storage is an issue for us, plus I wonder if the flour version would encourage rodents and the like?, but a chimnea to cook on is interesting, we have two very small ones, which may be efficient for the likes of a kettle, when I clear the yard out i may have to experiment