To buy real Bio Bricks in Central New Hampshire (whenever they become available, IF they are available), there is a consortium in Manchester NH area that has replaced smaller distribution channels. One always hopes such a development is a good thing, but my old supplier which I formerly used (Big Fish in Sanford ME) is no longer listed as a distributor according to Bio Bricks website. The consortium has relatively decent prices and delivers, but I am skeptical about the future since this exclusivity will make competition rather difficult.
On a related note...
I went to the Rochester (NH) Fair last fall (2008), a local woodstove distributor was exhibiting. I talked to the distributor representatives there, and we talked about alternative fuels such as Bio Bricks. He had a LOT of misconceptions about Bio Bricks, and yet he took orders for wood pellets at the Fair. I told him the Bio Brick product is 100% mixed wood product that has been chipped and compressed (without binders) into block form. Despite this information, he maintained this was not acceptable as a fuel. I told him the bricks used the same formula as wood pellets, he told me I was wrong, these bricks contain straw, agricultural by-products, etc.
One VERY important thing that came from him: a woodstove manufacturer will VOID you warranty if you burn anything but a mixture of hard and soft natural wood logs such as are cut from a woodlot and properly dried (meaning not even machine processed). I said what about those color logs that are sold at the supermarket? He said one in a season shouldn't be a concern unless it damages their stove (yeah: he said their stove). He argued that if they can determine that their stove was damaged by any non-natural wood products, if their stove was damaged by OVERFIRING for any reason, if their stove was damaged by burning only pine, then they would void your warranty.
Distributor, you have lost my interest in any of the brands that you sell - if your manufacturers will only allow me to burn 3/8" diameter x 24" long 2 year old indoor dried yellow birch, you are no longer dealing with woodstoves that consumers will want. On the other hand, mister distributor, these alternative brick fuels are selling very quickly and the reasons we consumers buy these bricks include the delivery and storage convenience and for the consistent and clean burn characteristics. So, mister distributor, get off your high horse, tell your stove manufacturers to play HERE in the field where the buyers are heading, because, mister distributor, if you don't stand up for the consumer, the consumer will ignore you and you woodstove manufacturers and we will stand for ourselves by not buying your weak designs.
American business wants to be all about the income, so they design unique, niche market, one of a kind but inflexible items; the consumer doesn't ask for those unique, niche market, one of a kind but inflexible items. It is not just the money to us, it is 'cost for performance + cost per value', and the consumer decides what performance and value they want (business CANNOT force us to buy anything, so they will have to come back to what we want), the decision of what we want to buy is not made by the woodstove manufacturer.
Woodstove distributor, send these weak, inflexible woodstove designs back to the manufacturer and make the manufacturer see that they failed to reach these consumers; on the other hand, if you stand on the manufacturers side in support of woodstoves that fail to work for the consumers needs, see if that helps you any repeat buys.
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