One of the things we fell in love with in our house was the stove. We had never had one before and we were so excited to be able to have a fire in the living room. We promptly nipped to the petrol station and bought a tiny bag of logs for a fiver and then spent half an hour and a box of matches trying to convince them to light. Over the next couple of years we got practiced at fire lighting and sourced logs from a variety of places, trying kiln dried (hellish pricey but a lovely burn) and locally chopped trees that arrived months after being ordered and were tipped off a trailer into the garden leading to a lovely afternoons work barrowing and stacking-inevitably in the rain to be seasoned in the woodstore AKA spider-house in the garden. One winter I went out in the dark and sleet to fill the log basket and discovered that as well as all the enormous tarantulas, we also had a mouse living in the woodstore. Well, dearest reader, you can imagine my reaction.
My phone must have been listening to me tell my husband I wasnt going out to the woostore again becasue I started being served ads from Lekto. After having a bit of a read I decided to give it a try. It felt more expensive than buying the chopped tree from the man with the trailer but I liked the idea of using up by-products of the timber industry and that it arrived on schedule (not two months after expected) and that it was in neat boxes which I would stick in the garage meaning we would be able to get rid of the sipder-house. I just needed to convince my husband.
The time came to set the first fire, and not only did it catch wayyyy easier than lighting a normal fire, each “log” burned hotter and longer than any of our previous bits of chopped tree. This meant we were having to tend the fire less frequently-which if you have three small children is an absolute god-send because I cant tell you how many times Ive accidentally let the fire go out because theyve distracted me and Ive forgotton. I dont think thats happened once since we switched.
They have a lot of info on their website about how many killawatt hours each different type of log gives out, and they also sell plain chopped tree so you can see how they compare if youre into numbers and spreadsheets like my hubby. Once he had seen the numbers, and how easy to light and long they burn he was a convert too. He’s actually more evangelical about them than I am. I think my fvourite product might be the night bricks, I chuck three in about 5pm and the embers are still glowing when I empy it at 7am the next morning-when our energy bill is sky high and living in the frozen north thats a product I would struggle to live without in the middle of winter!
Fun fact-when we lifted the spider-house to get rid of it we found a mummified rat underneath it. Cant tell you how glad I was to get rid of it. Also hubby has started chopping up the hardwood heat logs to use in the Ooni pizza oven-and thinks they work better than the little kindling sticks they recommend-so, Lekto, if youre reading this-could you please make a pizza oven product-thanks!! 5 stars I wouldnt go back to chopped tree.
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