Where do you buy wood for your stove?

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I'm having an eco-stove installed so need to buy wood logs for it. When I googled, I found government guidance suggesting that suppliers need to be on an approved list here: biomass-suppliers-list.service.gov.uk/. So I put in my postcode but only found one supplier that delivers to my area. But am I right in beginning to think that this list is only for suppliers of waste wood? If you have a stove, where do you get your wood and how do you compare potential suppliers? Just on price or is there a quality benchmark too?

Local suppliers, there are lots. One is a sawmill, one is part of a local wood management regime, another is tree surgeons, and there are more. I don't know anything about "approved suppliers" sorry. I consider how soon I can burn it (when it will be seasoned enough, how long I'd store it for). Moisture reader is useful.

From the mountain. They cut down thousands of trees locally and then they left loads of logs lying around. My husband goes up there x3 weekly with a small saw and carries some small logs home. We are sorted for about 2 years.

From the local big estate. Reputable, well seasoned, low milage.

Thanks. The approved list srrms to be a recent requirement, since April 2022. But my local DIY chain store isn't on the list, despite selling small bags of wood logs, so that's why I'm guessing the list is just for suppliers of waste wood.

Don’t buy wood, we have lots of trees around us which are managed or friends have trees removed and we collect through out the year, we have roughly 3/4 years worth.

What's an ecostove? Is it different to a Woodburner?

I live in SW London (Twickenham) so there are no mountains around here, just Royal Parks. 🙂

I think that scheme is only if you want to claim payments from the RHI - then you’d need a supplier off that register.

If you’re like the vast majority of us, and just burning domestically, then any properly dried wood supplier is OK. Quite often tree surgeons will sell wood, or local timber places. Or you can source eco briquettes too.

Its a newer type of wood burner that meets latest government guidance on efficiency and allows you to burn wood, even in smokeless zones.

Local farmer, big bag of seasoned hardwood £60
New rules about sale of unseasoned wood but I only buy seasoned anyway.
There is a place in next village that sells crates of bought in hardwood for £120 but they reckon there is a shortage. Everybody's been stocking up in August, asI have. I wouldn't normally buy any until October.

www.gov.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive

Says here the RHI scheme is closed to new applicants. So I feel confident you don’t need a registered supplier as you’re not claiming payments from the scheme.

I buy eco-briquettes, a pallet at a time. Works out cheaper as you use less and much easier to light, keep alight and less ash to clear up.

I buy mine from The Luxury Wood Company. The do free nationwide delivery and offer a range of eco options, some of which are BSL approved. I've used them for about 4 years now and found them to be very good. The are not as expensive as the name might suggest.

www.luxurywood.co.uk/

Local supplier for a big palette or a couple of bags at a time from The Range.

They seem to be sold out of almost everything! 😐

www.woodfuel.coop/categories/wood-fuel/

I think the electricity bills crisis has pushed panic buying of wood and briquettes as they weren't sold out a couple of weeks ago but are now.

They seem to be sold out of almost everything! 😐

That doesn't surprise me at all. I usually buy mine in Spring or early summer to avoid the Autumn rush.

We buy from Certainty Wood, we had a full pallet delivered on Monday. They deliver nationwide. We have space for a pallet and easy access for a lorry with a tail lift for delivery. The do half pallets and bulk bags which are similar to builders bags.

Hi there - is your burner already installed? If not, you might want to have a rethink because there’s lots of evidence about the hazard to health from burning wood.Asthma and Lung U.K. have warned against using wood burners because breathing in the particles wood burning produces has been linked to lung cancer. Even Eco stoves produce high levels of those particles into your home and the wider neighbourhood. I didn’t know myself till recently quite how bad they are ..

I get mines from a local place that kiln dries hardwood. It is very dry ( I use little pieces as kindling) it's not cheap I paid 365 for 4 cubic metres but it is good) I also collect sticks on dog walks and chainsaw windfall and season it in the barn. Electric chainsaw and a logsplitter cost about £700 but last for years.

If you want to literally burn through your money rapidly, then yes, B+Q is the place to go!
We buy online from a local company who are very reputable. We also obtain wood from other sources such as tree surgeons but you have to be prepared to season it for a good year or so.
We’ve just bought a 2sq m pallet of kiln dried ash, cost us about £300 and will last us probably a couple of years dependent on the weather of course!

I ve one of these, its cleaner again than a DEFRA approved stove and its amazing.
Burning dry wood, its like a gas stove, hardly any yellow flame, virtually no smoke outside and when flue swept, after 6months, no soot and what was there was like a crumbly powder, it also uses about half the wood the old stove used for more heat.

Approved suppliers are those who sell larger quantities, they have to sell seasoned wood only.

Sorry, not 2 sq m, 4 cubic metres!

I didn’t know myself till recently quite how bad they are ..

…and have since made it my mission to pop up on every thread remotely related to wood burners and say the the same thing.

I've read up.about all that. The evidence is from older stoves and open fires, not from eco-stoves which are much cleaner and hence now the only type of stove allowed to be installed..I live in a smokeless zone, but an eco-stove is perfectly acceptable here.