Our first question is always, what size is your stove?
A five kilowatt stove is one of the most common, but they can range from about 4kw to 40kw. The advice on our site is mostly tailored to a 5kw – 8kw stove, so if your stove is smaller, you will use less fuel generally. If your stove is larger, it will be a bit greedier.
A very small stove, for example one in a caravan or shepherd’s hut, will be best run on Hotmax or Everyday Value Briquettes. They’re easy to light, small enough to fit any stove, but hot enough to make the space cosy very quickly.
A 5kw – 8kw stove will run brilliantly on Woodlets Briquettes, Woodlets Heat Logs or Pini-Kay briquettes. These break up easily, burn hot and long, and can be used to light the stove and as a main fuel.
A larger stove might be best run on Beech Nestro or Envi XL – both of which are chunky enough to satisfy even very greedy stoves running lots of radiators.
If you’re not sure what kilowatt your stove is, look at the size of room it’s heating. Is it a big room? Is the stove running radiators, or does it heat a back boiler for hot water? If the answer to any of these is yes, it is likely to be larger than 5kw. Some of our customers have stoves that are up to 40kw – these are pretty tough to keep running economically and will require a good mix of experience, art and science to get the best out of.
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