foreign firewood

[ash_smith123]

I have a kiln, and a second kiln going in the next few months and I sometimes buy imported kiln dried because firewood is my sole business and if I turn people away, I may have lost that customers forever. Maybe I don't agree with the sustainability and 'eco-ness' of it but unfortunately without it we wouldn't have the customer base we have now for me to go full time and push the business on. Importing timber isn't new, the uk imports thousands of tons of round wood/timber products so why should firewood be any different?

When it comes in cut, split and dry at £60+vat a cubic metre and I have been having core prices at £70+vat a ton delivered as a business it's hard to turn away. I do make more money of buy it in cord, process and kiln dry it but if I can't keep up I have to find another way.

Due to the massive amount of new stove customers the market is changing massively. Our kiln dried to seasoned percentage has gone from 90-10 in seasoned favour to this year 50-50