How we make our heat logs
Turning the off-cuts from one business into fuel for another was a simple idea. Here is how it works, from the workshop bench to your log basket.
Step by step
From off-cut to heat log
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Step 1: It starts with a van
Every shelving and racking job we build at Darracott Designs leaves off-cuts of clean, dry board and timber. For years it went in the skip.
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Step 2: Sorting and shredding
The off-cuts are sorted so only clean wood goes forward, then shredded into fine, dry shavings.
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Step 3: Pressed under pressure
Our briquette press squeezes the shavings so hard that the wood binds itself into a solid log. Nothing is added: no binders, no wax.
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Step 4: Bagged and stacked
Warm off the press, the logs are bagged, stacked on pallets in the dry and ready for the next delivery run.
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Step 5: Delivered to your door
We load up and deliver around North Devon, or you can collect from the workshop in Torrington.
Why we do it
Why we started making briquettes
Our day job is building van shelving and racking at Darracott House in Torrington. It is precise work and it leaves off-cuts: good, dry wood that was too small to use and too good to throw away.
A briquette press turned that problem into something useful. Now the waste from one bench becomes the fuel that keeps a neighbour's stove going, and nothing leaves the workshop for landfill.
A closer look
Each log is pressed dense and solid. Dry wood shavings squeezed this hard hold together on their own, so there is nothing in a Darracott heat log except wood.
In the stove
Stack a few in the firebox on a bed of kindling and they catch quickly, burn with a steady flame and break down to a fine ash that is easy to sweep out.
Like the sound of it?
Get in touch for a price, or come and see the press in action.