Can you burn pallets in a fireplace

We often burn pallets and sharing pictures of burning the pallets and the aftermath has led to getting this question a lot:.

To be safe, you might want to avoid burning pallet wood indoors. We burn it exclusively in our outdoor fire pit, where there is tons of air flow. Also, you will end up with a lot of nails in your ash.

You can scoop it up and put it in the trash, or use a large magnet to collect them. You can use a reciprocating saw or a circular saw to quickly chop up pallets into burnable sized pieces. There are tons of sources for free pallets, we wrote a whole blog post about where to find free pallet wood here!

There are some additional codes that can go on pallets but the main one to watch out for is MB. It means it was treated with Methyl Bromide. If you don't see an IPPC logo then you know not to use it. While a pallet may be perfectly safe without the logo, it could also mean it was treated with chemicals. Another issue is what has spilled on the pallet. I'd be careful, personally, about oily pallets or ones that have clearly had something spilled on them. While most industrialized countries have an NPPO, not all do.

That means the country may not comply with the standards of other countries. For the most part, if you stick by these guidelines and don't make a food cutting board from a pallet, you should be safe using them for projects.

As with any project involving cutting wood, you should always use a mask to keep from breathing in particles and pollutants. Good job I love it when people on the inside of whatever drop some info to the public. Reply 5 years ago. Seems like that would be common sense, but I see people burn it.

They have no clue what they are doing to the environment! Question 2 years ago. I have access to very large palletts that have massive beams attached.. And 24 ft long.. I'm thinking they would make a perfect little house for me to live in.. I'm looking for the label on them now.. Question 3 years ago on Step 3. Some are not marked. Are they ok to be used outside regardless of any markings or non markings or would they still be unsafe?

Please advise. Due to being cautious, when choosing shipping wood, I knew it was best not to get it. I find that the heavy EURO pallets are the best, using around of them in the winters. My steel wood-stove the biggest one made by PRITY , with a firebox that is about 65cm cube, with a water-heater right under the flue. When all of the vents are open and the pallets are burning it can reach up to sqm home as warm as 23 degrees in as little as 2 hours.

With the 8 meters of singe stainless wall flue that wounds around the inner side of my home both upstairs and downstairs, I get heat in all areas of my home. The fumigation will often be performed using methyl bromide, which is highly toxic, and a chemical that depletes the ozone layer. Another thing at risk are rusty nails and even wood shards that are used, as they have the ability to penetrate food packaging.

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