BeanQ Logs

[Steven P]

(not sure if I can put a shop name in there, but you know the DIY warehouse store I mean....)

 

Just browsing the internet instead of doing anything productive in my holiday, noticing that a pack of 'kiln dried hardwood logs' are priced at about £2.50 a kg, and then noticed in the shop winter clearance some engineered solid hardwood flooring for an extra £4 a pack and I reckon that is cheaper per kg (reckon a pack of flooring is about 20 to 25kg?). Better value there then, going to burn discounted hard wood flooring this winter......

 

So to start a thread for a bit of fun, what else can you burn that is better value than a petrol station / DIY store / supermarket pack of kiln dried hardwood?

 

 

 

(Noting of course than this is a thread for fun and you should of course follow the manufacturers recommendations and your legal obligations as to what you burn... since we all always do that anyway, not sure why I wrote this sentence).

[Steven P]

I'll put another in, 1kg bag of Gram flour in the cupboard that was out of date (but reduced when I bought it)

38p: 360kcal and if the internet works well for me, 9 bags is the same as 1kg silver birch... similar heat to that warehouse kiln dried logs (and also organic so no nastier fumes)

Edited January 2 by Steven P

[Doug Tait]

Wonder how much calorific value is within the "happy to help" (oh, they're anything but!) brigade at asda?

 

It'd give them a higher purpose than pressing reset on a self service checkout that reliably fails to recognise the weight of their very own bag for life, and for £10 something an hour it may be financially viable depending on the individual's combustion time.

[GarethM]

Looking at most of the staff they seem to leave on the overseeing & critique what you buy, they're rarely the beanstalks of staff.

 

So probably very high in calories.

[Peasgood]

Books, second hand from the charity shop etc.

Seriously and I know someone that does.(not me!)

[Steven P]

Have to point out that we can't burn supermarket staff.

 

... I don't think we can burn supermarket staff....

 

....can we...?

[scbk]

Years ago a friend was telling me he worked out it if you were in a supermarket or whatever the value crisps was cheaper kwh than the logs

[scbk]

29 minutes ago, Peasgood said:

Books, second hand from the charity shop etc.

Seriously and I know someone that does.(not me!)

Local furniture/bric a brac auction, you used to be able to get old books for like £1/box.

 

They don't take them in anymore, not much commission on £1!

[Conor Wright]

Bit of a tangent but I always pick up a cardboard box to throw my shopping into, almost all shops here have a trolley of empty veg boxes near the checkouts.

It's been well over a decade since I bought fire lighters, just rip up the box and throw the shreds into the bottom of the log basket and that's the fire lighters for the week.

Must have saved myself a fortune, I just don't know where it is...

[Welsh cleaning services]

Rolled up yellow pages,back in the day when I was supposed to be delivering the new edition @8 pence each.