Peat fuel briquettes: 25 kg bags, big bags and bulk with delivery

The current price per bag and per tonne is in the table on this page; bulk is cheaper. It is cheaper because the raw material is milled peat from Ukrainian deposits in the Volyn and Rivne regions, and production is simple: drying and pressing without glue. Per kilowatt-hour of heat, peat briquettes are usually better value than firewood and comparable to long-flame coal.

For a stove, tiled stove or potbelly stove: peat briquettes. They light from paper, need no strong draught, smoulder for a long time and, unlike anthracite, do not produce carbon monoxide at low draught. Coal gives more heat per kilogram and suits a boiler with good draught. They are often combined: peat for the night, coal during the day.

There is a faint, characteristic peat smell when lighting, but the smoke is light and there is less of it than from green firewood. If the smoke is thick and smells sharp, the peat is damp or there is too little air. With proper draught there is no smell indoors.

An insulated house of 100-150 m² needs 6-8 tonnes per season, i.e. 240-320 bags of 25 kg; without insulation, up to 10 tonnes. That is more than coal or wood briquettes, but in money terms the season usually works out cheaper. Call us and we will calculate it for your floor area and boiler.

Dry and under cover: peat is hygroscopic, and wet briquettes go soggy and fall apart. In bags on a pallet under a canopy they keep for two or three seasons. Big bags must be kept under a roof. Bulk goes in a dry shed or bunker, not on the ground.

Partly. The smell comes from sulphur compounds and moisture in the peat: with a dry briquette and good draught it is barely noticeable and stays by the chimney rather than in the room; a sharp smell comes from damp peat or a closed-down draught. The ash can indeed fuse into a hard crust if peat briquettes are burned in active mode with the ash door vent open: they are designed for smouldering. Ash is 8-15%, i.e. 2-4 kg per bag, and it can be used as a fertiliser. Peat is not for everyone: order a trial bag and burn it for one night before buying a tonne.

A kilogram of peat briquettes gives 3.5-4.5 kWh, wood briquettes 4.5-5, so you need 15-25% more peat. If a tonne of peat is more than a quarter cheaper, peat is better value per unit of heat, and in practice it almost always is. The price of the savings is more ash, more storage space and slower heating. Plug the prices from the tables into the article "Calorific value of different fuels" and compare for yourself.

There are 40 bags of 25 kg in a tonne: bag price × 40 = price per tonne in bags. A bag at 150 UAH works out at 6,000 UAH per tonne. In bulk, a tonne is cheaper by the cost of packaging, but you need a dry storage area. The "Bag → price per tonne" converter on this page will recalculate any offer.

Yes. We send a 25 kg trial bag by Nova Poshta to any city, cash on delivery. Load it into your stove for the night, and by morning you will know whether it is right for you, before buying a tonne.

We do not take prepayment: you pay the driver on delivery or cash on delivery via Nova Poshta, and businesses pay by bank transfer with VAT under a contract. Weigh the bags in front of the driver: a check weighing is part of our delivery terms. Bulk and big bags are weighed at dispatch, with the actual weight stated on the delivery note. If the weight is short, we will make up the difference or refund it.