Old Parquet Floor Blocks

[stoker-steam]

I had a rummage through a skip and came up for air with a ton of old Parquet floor blocks that were some type of soft wood, whizzo I thought, great for kindling

 

How utterly wrong could I have been, I split it thin and the stuff just will not burn

 

Its now back in the skip!!

[Dean Lofthouse]

I have a load of Sapele parquet flooring and I sorted the rubbish out and it made my stove glow almost white hot

[Mick Stockbridge]

Maybe it's a foreign hard wood.......I was at the boatyard yesterday and a mate was loading his car with off cuts and he mentioned how this particular wood burnt the best he'd ever had, can't remember the name of it but he said it would'nt get going properly until there was plenty of heat in the stove.

[Dave Martin]

I had a rummage through a skip and came up for air with a ton of old Parquet floor blocks that were some type of soft wood, whizzo I thought, great for kindling

 

How utterly wrong could I have been, I split it thin and the stuff just will not burn

 

Its now back in the skip!!

 

When I was having a building demolished once a mate asked if he could have the Parquet floor blocks and I jokingly said that I had a load of rusty nails if he fancied polishing those but the laugh was on me because it looked beautiful in his house when cleaned up.

[High Scale]

I love a Parquet floor.

[Graham]

Get them back out of the skip and sell them.

[stoker-steam]

These are staying in the skip, the wood looks like Deal or some type of soft wood, if it was any sort of hard wood I would definately have salvaged it.

 

It seems to have been impregnated with some type of oil, smells a bit like pine loo cleaner, I thought this would make it burn like a Banshee, but its more like trying to burn asbestos.

 

I was told by the way to never burn Chip board, laminated woods, as they burn with such a fearce heat they can damage your burner.

 

Is this true??

[Dean Lofthouse]

Chipboard and laminates have glue and plastic in or on them which choke your chimney eventually and then set on fire

[Tom D]

What about these? I had a client who was using them, they burn long and very hot, Quite impressive. like a dense chipboard they are.Blazers Fuels - Fuel Logs

Edited January 19, 2010 by Tom D
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[County4x4]

I've no idea if it's true - but wouldn't it be a bit odd for parquet flooring to be made of softwood?? It might be completely normal - I have no idea - but you'd think they'd use something pretty tough wouldn't you?

 

I remember reading on the website of some outfit who sold sun dried African firewood to rich folks, that you would probably need twice the usual amount of kindling to get it started as it was iron hard. Once it was going though it was supposed to be hotter than hell and lasted for hours.

 

I'll try some when I'm rich and let you know....

 

Andy