Free Heat for Life With Paper Briquettes
Intro: Free Heat for Life With Paper Briquettes
STEP 1: Preparing the Paper
First what you need to do is take some paper or sawdust. Take this and place it in a big bucket. Fill it up with water to about the same level as the paper.
STEP 2:
Now rip the paper into small pieces until mixture is like mush.
STEP 3: Mold
Take a mold, I bought mine off eBay for $20 but you could make a homemade one out of pvc pipe, and squish the mush into a block.
STEP 4: Finished
Let these dry and now you have an unlimited source of fire bricks to burn using just water and paper. Congrats on your free heat for your household.
10 Comments
NutzDad 7 years ago
TioFrio 6 years ago
that is a good tip.
ThatGuyDuncan 7 years ago
I found almost identical instructions / title on YouTube three years ago. Are you perhaps forgetting to cite your sources?
My paper came from junk mail (hence "free", for those who don't know where we get the paper), which included lots of coloured pages (coloured ink, I mean). Newsprint with black ink was in lesser supply when I tried this.
Leaving the paper in the bucket for a few days (instead of hours) meant that I could use a drill for mixing -- no hand-ripping required.
I made my briquettes using the PVC-pipe-in-a-caulking-gun trick you allude to. I let the briquettes dry for three or four days next to a dehumidifier.
Lighting / burning them was simple BUT the stench was hideous. Did you experience that? At the time I had not yet built a rocket-stove -- perhaps a rocket-stove or gasifier burns hot enough to break down the stink. I dunno.
parisusa 7 years ago
GrantR1 7 years ago
Grunambulax 7 years ago
parisusa 7 years ago
karlmaskos 7 years ago
Another alternative? I take my sawdust on compact it into my waxed milk cartons. Easily starts the fire burns well and its free! As both items wood have been discarded.
87_camino_SS 7 years ago
Mr Durham 7 years ago
folks transporting felled wood across distances has proved a real problem in NC--it spreads disease-- and the NC forestry service asks folks to not do it. the other benefit of paper bricks is that it is light, compared to wood; also -- great solution for wet car camping less weight, lighter, won't spread tree disease.
I like the idea, BUT not from new paper stock