Seems like a good deal on firewood....

If you were asking me then they are reliable and the wood is quality.

In terms of price I was getting it for €200-220 the past few years, but the €339 represents the going rate at the moment. If you beat it you won't beat it by much.

I would have loaded it up, told him to come and get it for a full refund. Even if you can burn half you still have to dispose of the other half.

I bought some olive firewood for a 'green' retailer in Galway last year and had a similar experience. I was so disappointed with it - sizes where everything from a pencil size to a football. Impossible to split by hand, impossible to stack, dusty. Really slow burning with a low flame and low heat output. Never again.

Seen it mentioned a few posts back, that elder is not a good fire wood, I burn it from time to time and it burns hotter and slower than most timbers, probably as hot as whitethorn, but it needs to be seasoned for at least 3 years untill the bark falls off it, I'd usually throw it a big lump of it with other timber if I wanted the stove to stay in all night, it put a fire out if you tried to burn it fresh

I am finding wet logs in Aldi "burn & glow Irish firewood" bags as of December. Before they seemed as good as Lidl's or Stafford's air dried. Now some logs come so damp that they can put off a well lit stove. Lidl's are same price and so far not bad.

I bought logs on www.buyfirewooddirect.ie - which has an address in Stillorgan Road, Blackrock (but seems to be an Irish outlet of a British company as I rang up wondering when delivery was).

The logs are good, and the price was better than most others. I've now got two large empty pallets in the garden which I'll have to cut up as the delivery driver told me he just delivers rather then returns them. I can't use the pallets in the Stovax wood-burning stove I have so it seems a bit of a waste.

Anyway, there's a competitively price alternative supplier of kiln-dried wood for the Dublin area.

Why can't you burn the pallets in the stove is it made of some special material that disintegrates when you burn pallets.

Stovax just include the standard warnings about pollution if you burn timber with paint or preservatives. Ideally don't heat the house with old garden fence panels soaked in preservative but the odd pallet isn't going to much harm. Blue pallets are treated but if you can find the letters HT on the pallet that means its been heat treated, no chemicals used and is safe to burn. The nails can always be a pain and get stuck in the riddler.

If you've nothing else they often make good chop wood for kindling.

Is that not a warning sign for you???

I bought from them before and got the wrong wood ash v oak and the wrong quantity once I measured the pallets. They tried to tell me what I'd gotten was more expensive and that it was weight not volume I should use as a guide.

For anyone who burns heat logs, be careful if buying from Premium Pellets. They advertise Premium Blazers but deliver an unlabeled inferior product.

the crates are usually delivered with the logs split and kiln dried and rammed with wood, much better value than the builders bags

to give a gauge on the number is very tricky

With a bag you are paying for air because the logs are not tightly packed, once you get kiln dried in a crate you won’t regret it