Seems like a good deal on firewood....

How you getting on with the birch?

I got some oak from them and I'm unhappy with it. It's exceptionally hard to light and you can easily put out a solid bed of embers by putting a large block on it.

I know oak is hard to get going but this stuff takes the biscuit. Spanish oak perhaps?

Is that with Free Delivery (which it seems to be)? If so it's a pretty good deal. Stakelums have it for the same price but are looking for €50 delivery!

I got the pallet of oak from Rathwood.

I ordered it with a long wait which suited, Driver called when delivering I wasnt home he even moved a few bits and pieces out of the way to put the pallet where I wanted based in Galway the Courier was Langans.

Very happy with the wood lights easy and burns for a long time with very little ash remnants.

For reference I am getting a tonne bag of ~20% moisture larch for €70 delivered from a local lad (Sunny South East). That seems on the high side but I couldn't say with certainty given I don't know pricing in your area.

That’s expensive in my opinion, my last bag of softwood was €80 dropped off in cork from a local guy on done deal

Thanks for the 2 replies on the air dried softwood - will skip that one as too dear

If anyone has a number (or a link preferably) for someone who would deliver to Dun Laoghaire then I'll take a PM

Thanks

One of my colleagues had the exact same experience on Friday he lives outside the city too, he didnt even get a phone call. I would say that is down to the individual driver rather than the company

Am I crazy considering Lidl?

I got a load from Finglas fuels and there's a fair bit of bark and thin blocks. Price was 'ok' for Dublin city.

But I keep passing the Lidl bags on a pallet (€5.79 each//). And thinking 40 bags would have been far better. There's a nice size consistency and burn rate to them too as I bought a few bags before.

Just re the Aldi bags, I bought a couple to try out and whilst they seemed good and dry they weren't burning great, checked the others with a moisture meter and they were around 26/28%. It may have just been a batch that got wet even though they were dry, but just bear it in mind before buying a heap of them

Got this https://www.rathwood.com/cp/hardwood_firewood_1m_400kg_kiln_dried_logs_pallet/15011

for €195 back in October using their easy pay thingy as I didn't need wood at the time. The last payment was 3rd December and it was delivered on the 6th. I've just unpacked it into the log store and I've got to say it's rubbish. At least 30% of it is like large piecrs of kindling, certainly not like any logs I've bought in the past. I'll burn it over the winter but will not be buying from them in the future no matter how cheap they are.

We have a small stove in our living room, these pieces would be small even in our small stove. Even my wife, who just knows that wood appears in the pile beside the stove but doesn't question how it gets there, commented that the pieces were tiny when I was bringing them through. I felt like I was in some bizzare challange in squid games, carry sticks from a to b.

Yeah, I complained to them already. It is what it is, I just wanted to let people here know. Maybe others will be luckier than me.

Smaller pieces burn faster.

Rathwood have lower prices today. So went with another bulk order.

It does burn fast, but at those prices I couldn't refuse, and I was fairly impressed with how well they delivered the last batch a few weeks ago.

I’m burning through the 400kg of birch from Rathwood at an awful rate. And we have a very small stove that we tend to only keep ticking over.

As already mentioned, the pieces are ridiculously small on average. I wouldn’t buy it again.

Birch goes up quick alright.

I am using Stove Coal from EcoGlow. The smokeless ovoids won't flame up so much, and so the Rathwood birch sitting on a bed of it is a reasonable combination. For now.

In general and from past experience I would stay well away from any firewood sold by Aldi, Lidl and petrol stations because it is all softwood and it burns too quickly and gives very little heat. Ive lit fires with it before at 8pm and you've ran out of logs at 10.30pm and the room gets cold so the heating has to go on, a waste of time. Ive also been caught out by damp wood from Aldi before and since then have seen an Aldi with an entire pallet of firewood sitting getting splashed by rain outside their shop.

Dunnes sell hardwood which is much better but also a lot more expensive, about 10 euro a bag at this point when it used to be 7 euro in winter of 2022.

On moisture meters Id bought one in Aldi last year which stopped working about 9 months later. Brought it back with receipt but they said as it was past 6 months since purchase I had to ring up some UK number to get a refund. Of course no one ever answered that number. So when they were on sale again last week I bought another one with the intention of swapping them out and getting a refund on the first one immediately. But now it turns out that moisture meter no.2 doesnt work either. So now Ive two broken units (Aldi brand called Ferrex) and I wont be buying one from there again.

Anyone ever buy logs from Finglas Fuels? Appreciate any feedback.