Burning Peat In Fireplace

Peat briquettes a smokeless alternative to burning coals or logs on your burners.

Burning peat in fireplace.

Siobhán s irish fire logs are irish peat briquettes made from the finest milled peat ireland s answer to burning wood. Briquettes are widely used to heat homes and business throughout the country. Perfect for your fireplace fire pit chiminea barbecue and campfire. Siobhán s irish fire logs are 100 organic irish peat briquettes.

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. Each will burn for about 3 hours. Create that homely feeling with the scent of burning real irish peat. Start with a hot blaze of kindling and small pieces of wood and place the dried fuel on top.

In an insert to get a good burn you would have to have one designed for peat or coal. 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. Dried and compressed they burn hotter longer and cleaner than firewood. 22 irish fire logs approx.

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. Peat burns pretty much the same as wood or coal and the general principles are the same. Suitable for open fires stoves chimineas outdoor fire pits and bbq. Here i take a look at how easy or how hard it is to get a log burner goin.

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. You can also burn turf or sod on open hearths and in well engineered fireplaces with grates. Approx 20 24 individual bricks in a bale of briquettes. 30 lbs per box.