Bit of advice needed please?

[Got_Wood?]

I recently bought 2m3 of supposedly seasoned logs. When stacking them, they felt quite wet so I bought a moisture meter (they were stacked within a couple of hours of being delivered). The wettest logs were on the top of the pile so they are at the bottom of the stack. When the meter arrived (2 days later) I split and tested some of the drier logs and they are showing somewhere between 27-29% so not dry enough to burn. 

 

I've spoken to the chap I bought them off who has basically said they have been seasoned but not undercover, and then wiped his hands of the problem.

 

I've got half the logs in a outside log store, and the other half in a coal shed. I believe that there are regulations that should be followed and I could probably report the seller, but I'm not really interested in going down that route if I don't have to.

 

I'm wondering if anyone could suggest roughly how long these may take to dry down to the 20% moisture they should be as this will help me make a decision on if I should push the seller for a refund/ replacement.

 

If it helps, the logs are mainly Ash. I realise a lot of people say that Ash can be burnt green but I don't want to burn anything more than 20% moisture.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

[doobin]

2m3 means that they don't have to be ready to burn but there should be a leaflet with them explaining how to store them properly to season them.

 

get them somewhere with as much airflow as possible but under cover. Work out a decent system for this and then push for a cheap deal out of season in the future- cant beat making sure they are seasoned prpoerly yourself.

[Got_Wood?]

Yeah there wasn't a leaflet with them, and I checked the woodsure website, they're not registered with them either.

 

Yeah I'll rotate the logs from the coal house into one of the log stores once I've emptied one. Hopefully with a combination of a month in the store and then a few days inside in the log basket they'll be about dry enough.

 

 

[scbk]

Sounds like you need a decent capacity log shed. A coal store would be no good for logs.

[Got_Wood?]

Yeah to be honest I over ordered, I didn't expect there to be as many as there are. I had to quickly DIY up a second log store out of some spare bits of fence panels I had lying around. 

[scbk]

How much wood do you burn in a year? If you want to be sure of dry logs, buy them in the spring time for the following winter.

[Whoppa Choppa]

20% is only a recent figure. For years, HETAS specification was 25%.

[Got_Wood?]

I think we'll probably get through the 2m3 this year. We've only had it for a year and last year I just had a few bags here and there. I'll probably just buy in 1m3 going forward. The coal shed is under the stairs where the gas & electric meters are so a little weary of having too much in there and we don't have much space for any more log stores.

14 minutes ago, scbk said:

How much wood do you burn in a year? If you want to be sure of dry logs, buy them in the spring time for the following winter.

 

[Got_Wood?]

3 minutes ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

20% is only a recent figure. For years, HETAS specification was 25%.

 

Ah that's good to know, thanks

[scbk]

If you don't have the space to dry logs yourself, then you'll always be at the mercy of the supplier - so finding someone locally who can reliably deliver dry wood is important, this might not be the cheaper "logs 4 sale" blokes on gumtree/facebook