Best wood buying sites

Guru86

Good evening

I am about to move into a house that has a multi fuel stove in.

I would like to buy some wood to use in winter and just seeing if anyone can recommend a site that does seasoned or kiln dried wood at good prices?

Thank you

zeupater

Hi

It really depends on how you're going to use the burner ... when it's really cold & occasional weekends to impress visitors, or to provide a significant proportion of your heat demand ? ... and ... what storage is available ...

We're pretty rural and have never found an online supplier which comes anywhere near the prices of the dozen-or-so suppliers in the locality (some excellent, some appalling) ... probably be better to let us know roughly where you are and someone may be able to help, alternatively, scout around for a local country pub with a log-burner and ask who supplies theirs (might not be successful but at least it's enjoyable!) ...

Unless you've got a really dry log-store in place ready to accept a delivery then it's probably better to stay clear of kiln-dried - from experience they just soak-up any moisture returning them to the moisture-level equivalent of a 'barn dried' load pretty quickly, thus wasting the premium paid.

Best price is for a tipped load, usually around 3 cubic metres, weighing around 2 tonnes if well seasoned hardwood - but you can get larger loads for an even better price (we took a ~9m3 load once, the woodlice and wasps loved it!). Softwood usually burns hot but quickly and denser hardwoods burn much longer ... softwood is cheaper per load, but normally considerably more expensive per unit of energy released .... unless you trust the supplier, beware of mixed loads (hardwood/softwood) even if they state a mix (say H-80%/S-20%) - from experience, many suppliers will simply provide a tipped load of (mainly) softwood with a 'skin' of decent hardwood on top to make it look like a decent mix, claiming to have never 'guaranteed' a mix percentage, just a 'typical' makeup for a load.

HTH
Z

Guru86

Thanks we moving to near Richmond North Yorks. It's that not rural.

There a outhouse they old owners have used as their log store so have somewhere to store it.

I want to use it to heat downstairs during winter due to being oil.
Thanks again

transcriber

New hardwood floors are very popular nowadays. The old floorboards are dry and burn well. You can either become a skip rat and remove floorboards from skips in the street after asking the skip users permission or contact installers of new hardwood floors in your area an ascertain the cost of them bringing the old floorboards to your home.