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Where do you buy wood for your stove?

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workinitout · 08/09/2022 21:03

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?

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workinitout · 09/09/2022 18:31

Soontobe60 · 09/09/2022 13:50

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!

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I've been comparing prices and at £0.75 per kg this B&Q product seems to compare well with some of the bulk buy options. Am I missing something? www.diy.com/departments/homefire-ecoal-solid-fuel-briquettes-10kg/257205_BQ.prd

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AnnaMagnani · 09/09/2022 18:43

Even an eco-stove will trigger asthma.

I can cope with ours as DH does all the faffing, and we only use briquettes. Also the room is unheatable without it so it's inhaler or freeze. However any 'country pub with a warming stove' is a total no.

WhizzFizz · 09/09/2022 18:44

That stuff is a form of coal not wood. If you have a multi fuel stove it's excellent, will last much longer than burning wood. Cheaper to buy in bulk from coal merchant though

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workinitout · 09/09/2022 18:57

WhizzFizz · 09/09/2022 18:44

That stuff is a form of coal not wood. If you have a multi fuel stove it's excellent, will last much longer than burning wood. Cheaper to buy in bulk from coal merchant though

Doh! Can't believe I missed that. I'm usually quite savvy, honest!

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Alexandra2001 · 09/09/2022 20:11

user1469988103 · 09/09/2022 13:37

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 ..

Even on the Asthma UK website, they say the newer stoves are much better & being cold and breathing damp air is even worse for an asthma suffer.

But as always, for Eco-design stoves to work as designed, they need dry well seasoned wood.

I'm hoping mine will mitigate the rises in energy costs, even as wood costs have risen.

user1469988103 · 11/09/2022 17:59

From everything I’ve read, wood burning is bad for health even if you have an Eco stove and use dry wood. This article from yesterday explains that there’s a link between the PM2.5 wood burning produces and cancer: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62797777

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