Seems like a good deal on firewood....

Fair play @Muahahaha

i have enough wood for a few months already in the shed, but I plan on buying another 2m before the price gets too high. Is ok to keep it outside for a few months and pallet wrap it? I’m waiting for another shed to be installed but it would be December at the earliest.

sorry if this is off topic, but is oak firewood worth the extra expense ?

doesn’t say what hard wood it is and I wouldn’t pay €230 for 2 1tonne bags never mind the €290 it’s the worst way to buy firewood in my opinion

I used this place last week for 1.2m oak. Was 280 at the time but up to 360 now. Delivery was prompt, he had a mechanical pallet truck and moisture content ranges from 8 to 12 percent. I haven't burned any yet though. Seems to deliver nationwide. Not sure how good value it is but might help some given the supply shortages. I usually use monaghan but they were out of stock.

https://www.kennyfuels.ie/product-category/briquettes-kindling-hardwood-kiln-dried-birch-oak-hornbeam/

Apologies if I should have started an independent thread for this question, but it seems there are people in this thread with plenty of good firewood heating knowledge. I'm a complete newbie here.

We have a single mixed fuel stove with no backburner, downstairs (which is open and planned all the way into the kitchen). I'm wondering if we tried for most of the time to use the stove (it's not that big now), with firewood, would the savings be significant enough (I know any amount is good at this stage)? My only concern is that we would pay 360 or so for the 1.2m crate, but then end up firing up the gas anyways.

Basically, wondering where and how the savings are best made using firewood (in what scenarios etc)

Considering getting the below from https://www.coughlanfuels.com/

Very much appreciate any info/responses thanks!

Thanks out of my range also. Am probably looking at adding some sort of a lean to on an existing barna shed.

Thats a difficult question to answer without knowing how well insulated your house is, the space it is heading. They stove make and model, and how efficiently it runs. It really is very subjective.

But all that aside, the question I have for you is have you lit and heated with the stove in recent years and how did you find it (ideally with firewood) . If you were able to maintain a good temperature without burning masses of fuel without much support grom your other hearing system that would tell me your stove is efficient and/or your have a well insulated house. In this scenario it makes sense to use the stove. If not the 1.2m won't last that long and you may as well be burning money.

A high efficiency stove (jotul or morso etc) in a well insulated house will heat much of the property using little fuel for many months of the heating season.

Now I'm different to you in that I have my own close to infinite firewood supply but I've more or less heated three different homes almost exclusively with firewood for last 12 years or so.

One of those is where my mother lives on farm and getting wood to house is trivial; the other two were where I have lived and it involved a bit of work but no big deal.

The energy rating on the house would be C2 at best (it was just tested last month for selling) to maybe C3/D1. All small houses circa 90m-120m.

A few things to note

*we are all soft as fcuk from being reared in centrally heated houses

*all your house doesn't need to be warm; living space is fine and cool bedrooms are not a bad idea

*lots of houses, even recently built can leak air a lot around doors and windows. Assuming you have proper ventilation for your stove and CO alarm you could gain a lot in terms of comfort with checking door/window latching mechanisms, caulking windows for very very small money.

*Regularly clean your stove; a 5mm coating of ash on inside of stove will have an decent effect of stove efficiency.

*Don't buy expensive kiln dried wood and then store in some damp corner of your yard; if possible have inside near stove (obviously not too near) for a few days before burning.

*learn how to utilise your stove to maximise efficiency.

*Going forward buy your wood in the spring when cheapest and ideally in bulk (or unprocessed if you have space/facilities).

I would have quite a few local people buying wood of me and the smart ones buy when I text them and about to take unsplit fresh wood out of the forest. Typically €80/box v €150/box and even better if in lengths. Its only a hobby/forest management for me but people will get better value for most suppliers like that.

If you store it properly; split to expose as much surface area as possible, well vented and covered on top you'll get to 20% MC pretty quickly, which in my experience hasn't caused issues with really heavy use eg my stove was lit about 4 times between Xmas and St Patricks Day!

Some good info in this book

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/16/norwegian-wood-lars-mytting-man-made-things-trees-robert-penn-review

Anyone recall how much these crates were last year?

https://www.coopsuperstores.ie/Fuel--Heating/Fuel-Storage/Oil-Tanks/Calor-Crate-Of-Kiln-Dried-Beech-Logs-430kg-0051916

from reading up about best wood to get I've read that beech is a very hard wood.

Is it suitable for a stove and is it really hard to get lit?

My first choice would be ash, followed by or beech. Oak can be hard to light and birch burns really quickly.

I've burned nothing but this for four years in my stove. Kiln dried only though, it's far from difficult to get lit.

Ditto, put an order in last week and got a text the next morning asking if wanted to go on the wait list as they had no wood crates of any type in stock for the foreseeable. I ordered a crate of birch from Noblewood instead.

what price was noblewood? And what did you get?