Buy Compressed Sawdust Bricks for Ecological Heat
Your environmentally conscious, easy to use, economical solution to winter heating. Wood stove owners can now enjoy the ease of clean burning, high heat, low polluting fuel just like wood pellet stoves.
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One pallet of our Bricks contain as much heat measured in BTU's as one cord of wood*. That's one 4'x4'x3' pallet of Bricks replacing a 4'x4'x8' stack of cordwood and at 8% moisture or less almost every BTU in them is available as heat for your home since you're not wasting heat boiling off water from the wood itself!
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Like Wood Pellets, Bricks are cheaper than fuel oil, less polluting and greenhouse gas neutral, recycling the C02 that the tree absorbed in its life.
*(Typical cordwood moisture content of 21% so as far as usable BTU's go, you'll receive as much as 1.5 times as much *heat value from one pallet of this product as you would from cordwood. All the heat released during the burning process of this firewood is goes into heating your home, not boiling off the water from the wood that is in the stove waiting to burn next, plus, most cord wood you buy isn't that great these days. You'll always have your share of Poplar, Grey Birch and other low BTU value woods in your load along with wet, punky wood and grit that produces no heat at all and even consumes heat when put into a fire because it's wet.
Bricks are a CO2 neutral, renewable, environmentally friendly replacement to this popular home and industrial heating fuel. They have the size, shape and density required for a long even output of heat energy.
- Bricks turn your wood stove into something as easy to use as a pellet stove, but you don't need electricity to run it!
- The ECOBRIXs make a good alternative to pellets because they can be burned in any kind of stove.
- Using Brix you can use a clean burning fuel without having to invest in a whole new stove.
- Once you buy a pellet stove all you can burn is pellets and they require electricity for maximum efficiency!
- Bricks are fashioned after Brown Coal Bricks burned in Europe for generations.
One ton/pallet of Bricks equals 16,000,000 BTU's
- 16,000,000 BTU's is 113 gallons of fuel oil
- 167 gallons of propane
- 158CCF of natural gas
- 4,778 kWh
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Use The Bricks in
- Your wood stove
- Fireplace
- Great for restaurants and public areas because they don't throw sparks and stay evenly lit through out the burn. Little need to poke the fire once they're lit. No smoke in the room either!
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.Great for tailgate parties too. You can cook with them and not smoke up the parking lot and it will warm you up too!
Quantity
Now taking pre-orders for 2009-2010 heating season. Lock in your price and quantiy. Call and order now. Receive discounts for multiple pallet orders. 802-385-1096
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Price
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Trial Pack Containing 6 Bricks - *Shipping Included
Same price shipped anywhere in the U.S. |
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| 1 Bundle - 38 lbs - 20 Bricks |
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| 2 Bundles - 76 lbs - 40 Bricks |
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1 Pallet Layer - 10 Bundles = 380lbs
Call for a shipping quote now or after check out. |
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| 2 Pallet Layers - 20 bundles = 760lbs |
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1 pallet - 1000 Bricks - 50 Bundles - 4' x 4' x 3'
5 layers - ~2,000lbs |
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| Truckload and MultiPallet Discount Pricing Available |
Call - 802-385-1096
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A note about these products.
Here's my input on this product.
Bricks are made from resources found here in North America.
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Advantages of Bricks over Cordwood
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One pallet of Bricks(TM) delivers the same heat as a full cord of wood*
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No bugs, easier storage, less mess, makes use of leftover wood that used to be treated as waste
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Bricks are ideally sized for wood stoves. Packing density is optimized. You can fill every corner of the stove with high density fuel and extend your burn times greatly.
Bricks produce 1/2 the particulates (smoke) compared with good cordwood:
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Replacing normal firewood with [densified wood] firelogs can be an effective means of reducing pollutant emissions from existing fireplaces...
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One pallet of Bricks equals one cord of regular cord wood and takes up half the space
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Bricks are clean of bugs (dead & alive!) bark, debris and dirt
100% wood with very little ash (typically below 1%) and low moisture content -> less than half the moisture content of cordwood -> much more heat makes it into your house instead of converting water into steam which is lost up the chimney.
Twice the density of cordwood – about the same energy density as coal - extending burn-times by more than 2.5x .
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Consistent size means more complete combustion
No sparks, pops and very low smoke
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20 Brick packs (approximately 40 lb) at an economical price - cheaper than oil and much less mess and hassle than cordwood
Pressed wood firelogs offer the potential to lower woodstove and fireplace emissions."
Houston, James T., 1999, Louisiana State University Master's Thesis, The Development of a Firelog With Improved Air Emissions
Results show an average reduction of 52% in [Particulate Matter] grams per hour emissions overall...[Carbon Monoxide] emissions were more modestly reduced by 27%, and [Volatile Organic Compounds] were reduced 39%." "...even the worst performing firelog had only 29% of the worst wood fuel emissions and 74% of the cleanest wood fuel."
Barnett, Bighouse, 1992, OMNI Environmental Services, Inc., In-Home Demonstration of the Reduction of Woodstove Emissions from the Use of Densified Logs
"The overall average PM [particulate emissions] for all 9 stoves using cordwood were 24 g/hr. Using [densified logs] the emissions averaged 12 g/hr for an average reduction of 52%"
Hayden, Braaten, 1991, ERL/CANMET, Ottawa Ontario, Reduction of Fireplace and Woodstove Emissions Through the Use of Manufactured Firelogs
Less polluting - Burning Biomass recycles carbon in the atmosphere. Oil, gas and coal pull it from the ground (where it has been for millions of years) and put it in the air - an average house creates 5 tons of new carbon per year burning fuel oil.
* Testing conducted in modern stoves with typical New England cordwood.
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I've used this product myself and find all the claims about the clean burning consistency and quality to be true.
These products along with the Fire Logs are a clean and safe alternative to the messy dirty cord wood we're all used to and can be a real benefit to urban and suburban people who like the heat and cozy feeling they get from heating with wood but have concerns about air pollution. Not only that, the consistent nature of the product means you won't get into an argument with the fire wood guy about just how much is a cord and whether there's Poplar and Grey Birch hidden in the pile or not. These products are the same every time you order them.
Some differences between this product and the Fire Logs are as follows:
The Bricks, despite the manufacturers claim of needing only one piece of newspaper to start them, are harder to start than the Fire Logs. Both products start best when you to kindle a fire under them just like any fire wood but the I found that the Biobricks start more slowly and have the occasional false start and may need more of a fire to get them going. Once they get lit, they burn pretty much the same as the Fire Logs do with one exception. Our firestarter products work even better than newspaper.
Because they don't have the hole down the middle the Bricks expand when they get hot so you have to make sure there's space around them before you light them up. If you pack them tight in the stove they could expand and crack the stove. Leave a little space around them when you burn them.
Fire logs are easier to light and don't require any specific arrangement in the stove to get the maximum performance from them.
Both do best in good quality, air tight wood stoves to give you the maximum heat and efficiency possible. You can burn them in and older inefficient stove if you want to without any problem but they will burn faster than necessary since they are made from kiln dried wood fibers.
They burn okay in fire pits, barbecue grills and fireplaces too if you just like to have a flame for aesthetic purposes or grilling food and they won't throw spraks into the room and burn holes in the carpet or flooring.
NEVER use starting fluids, gasoline, deisel or kerosene to start these wood products. It won't work. When the Bricks get wet they turn into a pile of sawdust that won't burn no matter what fluid gets them wet. They don't need fluid to burn.
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