Imported kiln dry logs ?

[ash_smith123]

Loose tipped. The transit is split into 3 cubic metre bays so we can go out to 3 different customers on 1 run if needed. Ideally a 7.5t with 5/6 cubic metre bags would be ideal but I would have to do the licence so opted against it. We sent a survey out to customers asking if they would rather them in bags and most came back saying loose is better as they have got to take it out of the bag in most cases anyway.

[richardwale]

Loose tipped here as well, in a bag as you say they have to put them away anyway so no,point. 1500 cube a year, that is very good going.

[mickdundee]

Bah!

 

 

 

It's a British thing. Everyone else in Europe seems to be able to dry their own firewood. We (collectively, as a nation) just can't be arsed.

 

 

 

It might be a British thing. But maybe because British housing developers insist on squeezing as many homes as possible into any area. I'm pretty lucky and have space for log stores but my house is 20 years old. Homes built 10 years ago can't park 2 cars on the drive. Visiting any of these estates after 6pm is a pain in the arse. Not much chance of these households surrendering 3m2 of driveway. And they've probably got a garden the size of a ping pong table!

 

 

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[richardwale]

Agreed. Buying firewood is a luxury, like having your garden landscaped.

Another thread maybe, buts its a total false economy to tell customers that installing a stove will save them money on their heating. ( unless the fuel is free )

It's a craze that I hope continues...only for personal gain

[gdh]

Agreed. Buying firewood is a luxury, like having your garden landscaped.

Another thread maybe, buts its a total false economy to tell customers that installing a stove will save them money on their heating. ( unless the fuel is free )

It's a craze that I hope continues...only for personal gain

 

I think that depends on the cost of firewood. Around here where a lot of people just have a log burner and an oil or gas rayburn it can be cheaper to use wood when the oil price is high.

[gdh]

Agreed. Buying firewood is a luxury, like having your garden landscaped.

Another thread maybe, buts its a total false economy to tell customers that installing a stove will save them money on their heating. ( unless the fuel is free )

It's a craze that I hope continues...only for personal gain

 

I think that depends on the cost of firewood. Around here where a lot of people just have a log burner and an oil or gas rayburn it can be cheaper to use wood when the oil price is high.

[Richard 1234]

It might be a British thing. But maybe because British housing developers insist on squeezing as many homes as possible into any area. I'm pretty lucky and have space for log stores but my house is 20 years old. Homes built 10 years ago can't park 2 cars on the drive. Visiting any of these estates after 6pm is a pain in the arse. Not much chance of these households surrendering 3m2 of driveway. And they've probably got a garden the size of a ping pong table!

 

 

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True but how many of these new builds even have a chimney?!

[SbTVF]

True but how many of these new builds even have a chimney?!

 

 

 

Plenty of stove fitters round our way are building inglenooks on the outside wall and knocking through then using a double lined flue up the external wall! Looks good and takes up no extra space in the house.

 

 

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[mickdundee]

Plenty of stove fitters round our way are building inglenooks on the outside wall and knocking through then using a double lined flue up the external wall! Looks good and takes up no extra space in the house.

 

 

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My house had no chimney. We had an external flue fitted in 2010

 

 

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[william petts]

I'm one who find chimneys rather attractive and houses without them don't look right, a lot of it is money and planning permission to build them I think