Firewood.

[David oakman]

I was on holiday today and the wife and i took the dogs to the seaside. While i was there i saw some firewood in net bags £4 a bag with 10-12 logs in each bag.

Well i have two stoves and i think i must be using 3 bags a night that is £12 a day and £84 a week. How do people afford this? I was wondering what the cost of coal is in comparison to wood?

[Chris Gagen]

ha! there's a hardware store near me that's selling what can only be described as "lumps" of wood, maybe 6" long and possibly half a regular sized wood basket full, for £6.99!! crazy crazy people!

[gensetsteve]

I was on holiday today and the wife and i took the dogs to the seaside. While i was there i saw some firewood in net bags £4 a bag with 10-12 logs in each bag.

Well i have two stoves and i think i must be using 3 bags a night that is £12 a day and £84 a week. How do people afford this? I was wondering what the cost of coal is in comparison to wood?

 

If you only have half a dozen fires a year and too lazy to put a tipped load away and you have just got a bonus of £160,000 from Barclays its a bargain.

[dave fox]

3 bags a night thats alot of logs mate what burner have you got or is it open fire?

[David oakman]

I know what you mean. Every christmas i get people coming to my yard asking for two bags as they light the fire just on christmas day and boxing day:lol:

[Big J]

I get through at least 15 cubic metres a year on one stove. Even at the cheapest local price, that would be almost a grand a year. Madness!

[gensetsteve]

I know what you mean. Every christmas i get people coming to my yard asking for two bags as they light the fire just on christmas day and boxing day:lol:

 

Yeah we get a queue of them normally 4pm christmas eve

[NoRush]

You should check out B&Q about 6-7 logs in a net for £7.98 well worth it NOT

[log_hauler]

As said there's plenty of people out there with central heating and a woodburner that gets lit once a year at Christmas. The guy in the house across the valley from us runs his entire home energy from wood burning range (cooking, 12 rads + hot water). He reckons to get through around 15 tonnes of hardwood a year. He gets one big lorry load of unprocessed logs delivered each year which he rings and splits himself. I think his lorry load of uncut logs cost £700 this year- not bad for all the heating in a fairly large house.

[David oakman]

Yes but think of all the work as well splitting it. Still i don't mind the work for myself i like the heat from woodburners better than any other forms of heat:001_smile: