Terraced Street Firewood Delivery

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How do people get firewood delivered when you live on a terraced street? We have an estate car so planned on collecting, but there’s nowhere close enough. Would love a crate but concerned about delivery via a lorry.

What do others do? We can keep doing trips to B&Q for large bags to stock up.

Don't they just dump it on the pavement (or in your front garden if you have one) using the crane on the lorry? That's what they do round here, it comes in one of those big white bags that sand and stuff also come in. And then you have to carry the wood through the house to the back, an armful at a time?

Or is the street too narrow for the lorry?

I saw someone in our village have it dropped on the road outside their house (between parked cars). They then spent a few hours carting it around the back in a wheelbarrow until they'd moved it all (they have access via an alleyway).

Tbh the price difference and energy you get between 1 ton bags of wood and 12 hour night briquettes is so small these days that I don't even think we'll bother with traditional firewood this year. Since we moved in July last year, a bag went up from £65 to about £95. Plus, night briquettes come in boxes and take up about a tenth of the space. But, they are messy.

If you're gonna buy, buy in summer!

We’re trying to stock up now before prices and demand goes up. I’d be a bit concerned about a lorry trying to get down the street. Think we might just do a few trips to B&Q as they do 60L bags and can fit a few of those in the car.

3 cubic metres, delivered on the street - me and a big trug spent the next four hours carting it in and down to the basement. See the positives - it's a great workout !

At least if you buy briquettes they normally state exactly how much energy you are getting for your money.

With wood you very often don't have a clue and it can vary by +/-25%.

That's true. The company we use are usually pretty good though, the bags are pretty full.

A cubic metre should, in theory, be 750kg.

To @lightinthebox. The guys who deliver our wood turn up in a transit van, not a lorry. The two of them pull it off the van and drag it into the garage.

Would it be impossible to get one dragged off your pavement and through your house? The bags are usually about a metre wide.

Would you consider one of the wheelie bin delivery companies? (I appreciate its not always possible for a terraced house). There's a few of them around, but something like this: https://wheelinwood.co.uk/
That way even if you can't keep the wood permanently at the front of the house it would be much easier to wheel it round to your back garden for day to day use.

I mean, how do you get anything else delivered? People in terraced streets still buy new sofas, move house, buy new washing machines etc - most involve delivery via lorry.

if you live on a terraced street, it should be illegal to have a fire. So irresponsible.

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We don’t have a drive so it gets deposited in the parking space outside the house and we load it into a clean wheely bin and take it round the back to the wood store. This year we had 5builders bags delivered and it took 2hrs max.

Wheelie bins are great for moving logs, or a wheel barrow if you have/ can borrow one? Just get them tipped on the road and move them ( before people start sealing them ) 🙂

Dumped on the pavement - despite meant to have a crane to put in front garden. Took me about an hour to stack it inside using a wheelbarrow type thing

We’re lucky, the most recent delivery stacked our wood for us (we’ve had it dumped by the pavement in the past and moved it ourselves)
I buy a cubic yard as no room to store more.

I'm confused, why would you struggle to get it delivered? Terraces where literally designed for coal, coke, wood and solid fuel deliveries as thats what houses ran on.

eh? 🤔

I was going to say the same thing as someone else, how do you think anything is delivered on a terraced street, big lorry, or small truck in the case of wood, drives up and delivers?

Assuming its an older property isn't this exactly why terraced houses generally have right of way through each others gardens? My understanding is this was initially allowed to enable to delivery of coal, logs, etc back when that's how all our heating was powered.