Yes I live in a smokeless area, looks like I am going to have to blend, i just don't have the room to store another ten bags of polish coal, but it looks like it's my only solution.
I've been lighting my open fire for the last ten years, and for the most part without a problem, with smokeless coal, so i know my technique isn't the problem. Jack the Lad, I do it more or less the same way with some scruched up newspaper.
Ash burns well whether green or rotten.Try lighting it with briquettes or some small pieces of wood (I find rotten branches from an ash tree are excellent and dont spark). You can buy those bags of 'kippins' (chopped pieces of wood) from petrol stations these days. It is crap fire fuel though.
hi uncorked,
You could consider taking the matter up with the supplier as the coal in question might be part of a substandard batch.
aj
Ash burns well whether green or rotten.
PS I've found it impossible to get fire started from newspaper recently - I only buy the IT on a saturday, but it doesn't burn well now it's recycled/coloured (not sure which it is).
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