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Where can I buy Natural Wood Pellets?

Posted: Thu Nov 4, 2021 8:44pm
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Just had a pellet burner installed ready for winter months.  I've heard some wood pellets are sealed with chemicals and can give off carbon monoxide.  

Does anyone know where in/near or around Moraira I can purchase bags of organic natural wood pellets with no chemicals involved?

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Posted: Fri Nov 5, 2021 9:35am

DEP003 wrote on Thu Nov 4, 2021 8:44pm:

Just had a pellet burner installed ready for winter months.  I've heard some wood pellets are sealed with chemicals and can give off carbon monoxide.  

Does anyone know where in/near or around Moraira I can purchase bags of organic natural wood pellets with no chemicals involved?

All fossil fuels, when burning, give off Carbon Monoxide and indeed stored wood pellets can even give off CM before being burned. This is according to various sites on Google.

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Posted: Fri Nov 5, 2021 2:10pm

If the pellet burner is allowing CM to escape into the room, I would be seriously worried!!!

We buy ERTA wood pellets certified EN plus, A1, ES006 at 5 Eu per bag from Haas Sohn/ Jesus Comacho in Teulada. From Moreira about halfway down main road through Teulada on LHS from your direction. Big shop on corner.

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I have recently installed one.  I took the advice of friends who have had one for a while and have tried every pellet you can buy to see which is best

Their conclusion is the best by a long way is  Natur Pellet, a Green bag with a squirrel on it  ENplus-A1 from Leroy Merlin.  They give good heat, stay together and don't produce much ash.  Any pellet must have a moisture of 5% or less and should give a calorific value of around 18MJ/kg.or better

Cheaper ones fall to bits and make a mess during handling and others were just plain rubbish, literally.  Made of wood chippings and sawdust from local furniture factories.  It might be called recycling, but that's not what you need for your fire.

Note to Buffolobil.  Don't believe anything you read on Google, there is so much rubbish on there.  Wood pellets in bags do NOT give off Carbon Monoxide in storage.  There would be a lot of dead people around if they did. That is just scaremongery.  They should be stored in an airy, dry  place but that is to stop them getting damp.

Incidently Carbon Monoxide is CO not CM.

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 2:30pm

Classic man wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 10:39am:

I have recently installed one.  I took the advice of friends who have had one for a while and have tried every pellet you can buy to see which is best

Their conclusion is the best by a long way is  Natur Pellet, a Green bag with a squirrel on it  ENplus-A1 from Leroy Merlin.  They give good heat, stay together and don't produce much ash.  Any pellet must have a moisture of 5% or less and should give a calorific value of arou...

...nd 18MJ/kg.or better

Cheaper ones fall to bits and make a mess during handling and others were just plain rubbish, literally.  Made of wood chippings and sawdust from local furniture factories.  It might be called recycling, but that's not what you need for your fire.

Note to Buffolobil.  Don't believe anything you read on Google, there is so much rubbish on there.  Wood pellets in bags do NOT give off Carbon Monoxide in storage.  There would be a lot of dead people around if they did. That is just scaremongery.  They should be stored in an airy, dry  place but that is to stop them getting damp.

Incidently Carbon Monoxide is CO not CM.

Obviously not everything is correct on Google but unfortunately  it is a proven fact that at least six people have actually died, actually on their death certificares,  from CM poisoning from stored wood. So don't come out with anymore glib statements.

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 3:03pm

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 3:03pm

I will simply ask you to keep this conversation polite.  You should read the green band at the top.

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 3:39pm

Buffolobill wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 2:30pm:

Obviously not everything is correct on Google but unfortunately  it is a proven fact that at least six people have actually died, actually on their death certificares,  from CM poisoning from stored wood. So don't come out with anymore glib statements.

Do you have a link for this please? 

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 4:04pm

I have just looked this up and I have attached a link.  This gives you far more info than you need.  Basically the deaths have occurred where pellets are stored in BULK which will NOT be the case in domestic situations unless you have a bulk tank where the pellets are blown in from a truck, but that technology is not available in Spain. Even so, such stores would be ventilated.

The best recommendation is to keep them dry, off the floor or on a pallet in a ventilated area and you will not get gassed.  Posting information without the full story is dangerous and unnecessarily worrying and as I said before, scaremongery.

http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/12792/pellet-offgassing-simple-problem-simple-solution

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 5:11pm

Classic man wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 4:04pm:

I have just looked this up and I have attached a link.  This gives you far more info than you need.  Basically the deaths have occurred where pellets are stored in BULK which will NOT be the case in domestic situations unless you have a bulk tank where the pellets are blown in from a tr...

...uck, but that technology is not available in Spain. Even so, such stores would be ventilated.

The best recommendation is to keep them dry, off the floor or on a pallet in a ventilated area and you will not get gassed.  Posting information without the full story is dangerous and unnecessarily worrying and as I said before, scaremongery.

http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/12792/pellet-offgassing-simple-problem-simple-solution

I was surprised to read that wood pellets can give of carbon monoxide, but it seems they do. Another link from the UK Health and Safety below.  I would say the message is - have a carbon monoxide detector.

AItch.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/safetybulletins/co-wood-pellets.htm

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 5:27pm

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Posted: Sun Nov 7, 2021 5:27pm

All good info, but let's not get carried away.  The deaths occurred from BULK storage facilities not a domestic store.  Just play it safe and ensure your storage is dry and well ventilated and you will not get a problem.  A CO detector could be a good idea but in all honesty I don't think it would be needed if the advice is followed.

I worked for years offshore and no one was permitted to enter any sort of enclosed space till it had been ventilated and checked with a gas detector..  There have been lots of deaths on ships due to people not following the advice and the others who went in to rescue them.  On one ship four people died  from precisely that.  Chain lockers are bad places.

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