As natural gas prices have been elevated compared to recent years, many homeowners are now using solid fuels.

Therefore, if you are offered some logs/firewood for burning, you will want to use them this year to reduce your overall energy bills.

However, its most definitely not worth burning wet wood, it can cause damage to your chimney.

This can cause lasting damage to your chimney lining, the chimney flue, and the wood-burning stove itself- so this is why we never recommend burning wet wood.

It can, therefore, cause damage to your property, but it can also cause a massive nuisance to your neighbours if the chimney is bellowing thick and constant smoke.

In this article, we explain we suggest an affordable alternative that is much better for use when heating your home.

What is wet wood?

A common preconception when we talk about wet wood, is that we are simply talking about logs left out in the rain.

However, when we don’t describe this type of wood, that’s “wet wood” we are talking about logs that have recently been felled and, therefore, have not been seasoned.

Wet wood, is also wood that’s not been kiln-dried.

This basically means the wood’s moisture content is high, not because it’s been left out in the rain, but because it’s freshly cut brand-new wood that has recently been chopped into pieces by, say, the tree surgeon.

What’s the problem with burning wet wood?

The disadvantage of massive is that it could damage your chimney flue, sometimes substantially, by cloaking it up with excessive amounts of soot. The excessive amount of soot that can build up does increase the chances of a chimney igniting, causing a chimney fire.

This is why it’s essential to get your chimney swept. Ask a chimney sweep how often you should have your chimney swept as this is essential maintenance of your wood burning stove and chimney.

However, wet wood can cause excessive soot buildup quickly before exacerbating the problem and damaging the chimney lining.

Also, the wood-burning stove can easily cost upwards of a thousand pounds per unit, and wet wood can clog up the actual wood-burning stove with soot, if you burn wet wood.

Wet wood is, therefore, a total. False economy

Wet wood is often sold cheaper because the tree surgeon or the person selling it hasn’t allowed it to dry season, and they haven’t kiln-dried.

Therefore, people who know little about firewood might find it tempting to purchase it because it is sold so cheaply.

However, this type of firewood is cheap for good reason. It will damage your chimney, and what many people don’t understand is that it will produce an extremely dull burn. This means that it wont produce much heat at all.

So, what’s the alternative to using wet wood?

The simple answer is to use high-performance, kiln-dried firewood produced by a company with experience producing quality firewood.

The solid fuel should then have a low moisture content.

Why not place an order with us today

We sell high-quality, high-performance kiln-dried firewood. We also stock many varieties of firewood, ranging from cherrywood to oak; we have most of the common varieties that many people like to burn within their homes.

Introduction

At the current time of writing, a thick layer of frost covers rooftops and cars in South Wales.

Therefore, many homeowners are turning on their central heating longer and more often than they usually would during this cold weather.

However, this is accompanied by concern over natural gas prices and the cost of their monthly energy bill—therefore, you may wish to burn solid fuels instead. We are one of S.Wales’ major suppliers of solid fuels, that is, kiln-dried quality logs.

This is why many homeowners in Cardiff through Newport like to have a log store with ample logs stacked within it. We can supply quality logs in large quantities.

It’s most certainly a comforting feeling when you walk out to your garage or garden and know that you have a lot of logs stored in your log store.

We can deliver a vast quantity of firewood all at once

Many people sometimes have wood-burning stoves installed, but they may no longer use them because they find replenishing logs inconvenient and time-consuming.

For example, loading heavy bags of logs from the local supermarket can be a chore that most people do not want to endure.

This is where we can help:

However, when you learn about our super low prices—those are the prices for our high-performance, kiln-dried firewood—many customers keep purchasing from us.

Stock up on your firewood now.

If your firewood is running relatively low, now is the time to replenish it. We can help you replenish your log store and deliver our quality firewood at your convenience.

Why choose our firewood?

This is an excellent question, as there are thousands of firewood companies you could potentially call to purchase logs from.
Here are seven good reasons to buy from us:

– Our firewood is produced locally
– Its kiln-dried
– Low-cost delivery available
– We only stock quality logs, ash oak and many other types
– Friendly team
– Low-cost logs
– We cover most of Wales

However, so many people pick us as their firewood company of choice because of our quality control standards, which we believe are quite literally second to none.

We’ve gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of our firewood is superior to some other companies.

We have achieved that by building a purpose-built kiln at our farm.

This kiln has been purpose-built to heat firewood for a prolonged period of time, so the logs/firewood are subjected to huge temperatures for a very long period.

Because we have built our kiln, we can manage the quality control process, ensuring that all the logs are subjected to a high temperature for an extended period. This drastically reduces the moisture content and means all our firewood is always ready to burn.

Please place an order with us today.

If you want to order with us today, please call us.

Introduction

Different types of firewood do burn differently. Therefore, it’s essential to understand what type of logs you are purchasing and how to improve the heat that’s generated from the logs you buy from your firewood supplier.

It often comes down to how logs have been seasoned or kiln-dried by the supplier. However, it is also about how the logs are stored once they’ve been through the kiln drying or seasoning process.

How to improve the efficiency of your firewood

Which wood species do you purchase?

Some Cardiff residents, have owned a log burner for an extended period of time, and often they know what types of logs they want to purchase from a local firewood company. For example, they may call us and say they want a type of hardwood delivered, such as a beach, ash or oak.

In our experience as retailers of quality logs in the U.K oak is a very popular type of firewood in the United Kingdom.
However, other types of hardwood, such as beach and ash, are also very popular.

Then you have your softwoods, such as pinewood and also spruce. These are, again, perfect types of wood. The only downside to using softwood to help heat your home, is that this type of wood can often burn much quicker, so softwood will usually need replenishing much faster.

Ask your log retailer about the moisture content of the wood

Your log supplier should go to great lengths to reduce the moisture content of the wood.
This is so that it burns hotter and also burns longer. The added benefit is that it’s much easier to ignite when the moisture content has been dramatically reduced.

Now, this needs to be kept in mind because a lot of people often get frustrated when buying logs that don’t ignite easily. However this is often because you may have purchased green wood, which should not be burnt.

However, kiln-dried wood or seasoned wood, where the moisture is greatly reduced, would be much easier to ignite with firelighters.
With eco-friendly firelighters or perhaps other types of firelighters that can be widely purchased from different retailers, good quality firewood, that’s been kiln dried should be very easy to ignite.

How can you improve the heat output of firewood?

The first thing you should do is make sure your firewood company is correctly kiln-drying the firewood.
It’s a bit like baking a cake in the oven, in that the logs must be baked for a sufficient amount of time.

This baking or kiln-drying process subjects the logs to tremendous amounts heat, allowing the moisture content to evaporate from the timber.

This, therefore, this allow the log to burn brighter, hotter, and longer once it’s been from the kiln drying process.

Now, there are some companies that might sell greenwood. They might state that it is kiln-dried, but it hasn’t been kiln-dried for long enough sometimes. What happens then is that the moisture content is still high. It will then produce an excessive amount of moisture, which will damage the chimney lining and the stove itself.

So do avoid purchasing green wood.

When you want to purchase high quality logs, do contact us

If you looking for a local company to buy firewood from, then do call Forestry Firewood Ltd. We are your local firewood company supplying most of South Wales with both hardwood and softwood logs. We have vast experience in kiln drying timber, and we sell very high quality firewood to local companies and the general public.

If you want firewood delivered to your home, please get in touch with us today.

Introduction

Regardless of the kind of firewood you purchase, you will undoubtedly want it to offer exceptional heat and burn for as long as possible.
Some types of firewood are very popular here in the United Kingdom, such as ash firewood, oak and birch logs.

In this article, you’ll discuss the different varieties of logs and which ones are popular in the United Kingdom for use as a solid fuel to help heat your home.

Ash firewood

You might think all firewood is the same if you recently bought a log burner? That all logs does the same job in terms of burning and generating heat.

However, homeowners who have owned a wood-burning stove or had an open fire for many consecutive years often find a type of firewood that they like the most. This means different firewood offers different qualities; some can produce a slow and rather dull burn, but it burns for much longer. However, the all-rounder, one of the most popular type of firewood, is ash firewood simply because it offers brilliant and bright heat generated over a sustained period.

Another great quality of Ash firewood is that it often leaves minimal residue once burnt. The heat that it produces is so bright, it’s so intensely hot, that you may find that in the bottom of your wood-burning stove, in the ash collection tray, that when burning ash there is very little ash because of the huge amounts of heat this firewood generates.

This type of firewood, because it burns intensely and hot, produces fantastic heat when used in wood-burning stoves and open fireplaces.

Oak firewood, another great option

Even if you don’t know what oak firewood looks like, you will feel the difference as you pick up the log in your hands. This is because Oak is much denser and heavier than some other types of firewood.

Benefits of burning oak firewood

The benefit of oak firewood is that it can burn for a long time, which many people like. If you were to burn other types of firewood, you may need to opening the door on a wood-burning stove and add more firewood to keep the fire burning.

However, the main benefit of oak firewood is that it’s very dense timber and burns for a long time.

Therefore, you don’t need to add logs directly to your wood-burning stove as often, when your burning oak logs, because it burns for a long period. Whether you’re busy in the kitchen or working on your laptop, therefore you don’t need to check on wood-burning stove as often to see if another log needs to be added.

Birch firewood

Many people like birch firewood because it burns brightly and intensely, producing a great heat.

Birch firewood is well-suited to for burning in a log burner. It is ideally suited for solid fuel burning within your home because it produces a very abundant and bright flame. Many people also comment that it’s straightforward to ignite; therefore, you can ignite this type of wood with just a few firelighters and in a short period of time.

Delivery to your home

When you look at many Christmas cards delivered at this time of year, often featured on the Christmas cards is an open roaring fire.
Therefore, many people like to enjoy an open fire during November and December. Our firewood can therefore create a great atmosphere and makes the house feel nice and cosy.

We could deliver our firewood to your home, we can tip our logs off onto your driveway or perhaps at the rear of the property near the garage. Therefore, give us a ring if you want high-quality logs delivered to your home before Christmas.

Introduction

The nights are getting much colder, so many homeowners across South Wales now need high-performance firewood to help heat their homes.

With high natural gas prices still high, many homeowners currently depend on solid fuels to heat their homes.

This article explains why we are the company to choose when you need high-performance firewood delivered to your home in Wales.

An ample quantity of logs delivered at a fair price

Do you think firewood is expensive?

Some firewood suppliers are expensive; buying firewood only in small plastic bags can sometimes be expensive way of purchasing your firewood.

However, you could have a large load of logs delivered to your home when you call us. Plus our prices are very affordable.

We can deliver a vast quantity of firewood at once; our high-performance logs mean you will gain a large amount of firewood at a very reasonable price.

What type of logs do you sell?

Many homeowners want two main types of logs delivered in the United Kingdom: oak and ash firewood.

We regularly have many of these types of logs in stock and other firewood varieties of logs as well.

How do you ensure that you are not selling wet firewood?

The firewood needs to be dry before it can be burnt, and as logs will have come from a living tree, the timber is used to sucking up water from the ground for potentially decades.

Now, depending on the variety of timber, it can take a different amount of time for the wood to reduce its water content. One way of reducing the water content of firewood is to dry the firewood by seasoning it, often done in a large corrugated iron barn.

The alternative is the kiln drying the firewood, which means placing the logs in a small enclosed space and blasting the logs with heat for a sustained period of time.

kiln-drying firewood

Therefore, firewood is placed in the kiln, often for many consecutive days, and is subject to scorching temperatures, reducing the moisture content of the logs substantially.

You might see a slight rippling effect or crackling on the side of the logs that have been subjected to very high temperatures and which have been kiln-dried.

Our firewood is kiln-dried and moisture-checked with digital moisture meters to ensure its good quality and ready for shipment to our customers.

This quality control process gives you peace of mind about the firewood you’re purchasing from us in that it’s ready to burn as soon as it’s delivered.

Would you like to place an order with us?

If you want to order with us, why not ring us today?

We can dispatch one of our delivery drivers to deliver high-quality logs to your house.