{"id":2458,"date":"2015-12-11T22:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodpellets.com\/blog\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:23:36","slug":"what-are-wood-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/11\/what-are-wood-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Wood Bricks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2464\" title=\"Wood Stove Brick Fuel\" alt=\"Cleanfire Wood Bricks for the Wood Stove or Fireplace\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BrickDimension.jpg\" width=\"347\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BrickDimension.jpg 578w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BrickDimension-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/BrickDimension-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/>Wood bricks are an excellent alternative, or supplement, to firewood. Much like <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" title=\"How Are Wood Pellets Made?\" href=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/how-are-wood-pellets-made\/\" target=\"_blank\">how wood pellets are made<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">, wood bricks are manufactured by densely compacting bark-free wood fibers into a uniform shape. But first, the wood fiber is kiln-dried to hold less than 10% moisture. Because of this extremely low moisture rate and absence of bark and insects, the buildup of creosote is significantly lower than standard wood burning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wood bricks are most commonly packaged in bundles of 15-20 bricks. \u00a0Bundles are sold individually and also in bulk, stacked neatly on on a shrink-wrapped wood pallet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Comparing Firewood and Wood Bricks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A full cord of firewood is about 8 feet long, 4 feet deep and 4 feet high &#8211; which takes up about 128 cubic feet of space and can weigh over 3,700 pounds.\u00a0A typical pallet of wood bricks is approximately 4 feet long, 3 feet deep and 4 feet high &#8211; which takes up about 48 cubic feet of space and weighs about 2000 pounds.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On average, dry firewood produces about 6,500 BTUs\/lb of heat. Although wood bricks are typically about 6 x 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size &#8211; they pack a serious punch, producing up to 8,000 BTUs\/lb of heat.\u00a0In comparing the two heating sources by equal weight<span style=\"color: #000000;\">,<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <strong>3700 pounds of wood bricks<\/strong><\/span> produces\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>29.6 million total BTUs<\/strong><\/span>, and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>3700 pounds of firewood<\/strong><\/span> produces\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>23.4 million total BTUs<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Therefore, 2,000 pounds of dry firewood (1 ton) is equal in heat output to approximately 1,625 pounds of wood bricks (13\/16 of 1 ton).\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about wood bricks? Give the experts a call at 1-800-PELLETS!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Order Cleanfire Wood Bricks Online\" href=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2472 alignnone\" alt=\"Wood bricks are an excellent alternative, or supplement, to firewood.\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/CFBKS.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"248\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1593 alignnone\" alt=\"Wood Stove Heat Brick Fuel\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/OrderNowCFBK.png\" width=\"269\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>*Product availability varies by region.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood bricks are an excellent alternative, or supplement, to firewood. Much like how wood pellets are made, wood bricks are manufactured by densely compacting bark-free wood fibers into a uniform shape. But first, the wood fiber is kiln-dried to hold less than 10% moisture. Because of this extremely low moisture rate and absence of bark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}