Here’s a cool sustainable product that can really help save some energy as the temperature drops this Holiday season.
The BioBrick is a brick of compacted and kiln dried wood waste (like sawdust) collected from sawmills and carpentry shops, etc. These bricks burn like coal in a wood stove, but still give of those soothing, mesmerizing flames that everybody loves to watch smolder in their fireplace.
The BioBricks are manufactured nearby in Bristol, CT and are sold by the pallet all over New England and New York.
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- BioBricks in their wrapping
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- The face of the brick
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- Ready to Burn
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- My family’s wood stove with a BioBrick fire.
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- The site says to arrange them nicely, we just pile them in.
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- A hot, slow, comforting burn
I took these photos in my family’s living room. This is our third winter using these bricks in our wood stove, and they’ve really lowered the cost of our oil heat, and are way more efficient than regular wood logs, according to the BioPellet website.
The only real disadvantage to the bricks is that they are only compatible with a wood stove like ours, and can’t just be thrown into a fireplace like wood logs or a Duraflame.
So, if you’re tired of staring at the silly image of crackling fire on TV every holiday season, but you feel guilty about the trees that died to make your fire, check out BioPellet.net and consider the BioBrick for your holiday heating.
