Home heating

[grenfell]

Oh , one thing I forgot to add. When I tried making these I used , as I said , a car jack but I also made some smaller ones just with my hands sort of a paper snowball . The big advantage was the drying time being so much shorter than the bricks. They are also a bit quicker to produce as well as there's no messing around filling and unfilling the machine and pumping the car jack.

[featherstick]

We've done the whole briquette thing too. Not worth it. Paper is good twisted into a long spiral, bent over and used as a firelighter, used as a mulch on the allotment, or added to compost. Turning it back into logs isn't worth it.

[grenfell]

In the amazon link someone commented that just leaving a newspaper out in the rain , leaving it to dry produces pretty much the same result as the whole brick making malarkey .

[Stasher]

I too have a very low opinion of the paper briquette making fiasco

In the amazon link someone commented that just leaving a newspaper out in the rain , leaving it to dry produces pretty much the same result as the whole brick making malarkey .

But I think I just might try this, minimal effort.................