We operate a service supplying logs and chipping for the domestic and commercial market.

We recycle all our green waste either as split logs for burning (Only seasoned - Minimum of 1 year – hard woods are used to comply with the clean air regulations ) or chippings for flower bed mulch, in time once decomposition sets in it can then be used as a soil conditioner.

We also supply quality hard-woods of large trees that are either dying, dead or other wise condemned for carvers and sawmills.

For Your Interest
The most common form of wood fuel at the moment are logs. These will usually come from local sources and can be bought from a variety of outlets – e.g. garden centers, farmers, tree surgeons etc. It is important the logs are dry and well seasoned. Burning wet or unseasoned wood is less efficient and can cause harmful build up of deposits in the chimney over a short time, the reason is that when the logs heat up the sap and resin within the logs will be boiled out first causing thick coatings of creosote or resinous materials which can cause chimney fires, or prevent the chimney functioning properly. This can also allow harmful fumes to escape into the home and indeed the environment.

Efficient burning is achieved by setting the appliance to fast air flow. This will ensure that all the gases are fully burned. Only set to slow burn when all wood has been reduced to charcoal and ash. Newly added wood set to burn slowly creates smoke and creosote in the chimney. The stove or open fire should not be banked up with logs for overnight burning.

If you buy logs which have not been seasoned, you should store them under cover but open to allow free air circulation for at least a year. Some logs may take 2 to 3 years to fully season. Bring the fuel into the house a few days before you want to use it to get it as dry as possible. Wood from different trees has different heat values . Wood fuel has typically less than half the calorific value of coal and smokeless fuel, so you must be prepared to use a greater volume of wood to heat your home or room, unless you use both wood and mineral solid fuel.

Under the Weights and Measures Act, coal and smokeless fuel have to be sold in defined weights, which makes it easy for you to compare the cost between suppliers. Unless there is a local statutory instrument in force, there will be no such statutory weight for deliveries of wood. The logs and wood are usually sold in “nets” or by lorry load, so take care to check the amount you can expect to get for your money. Fresh felled wood weighs about one tonne per solid cubic metre but will lose up to half its weight when it becomes fully air dried, so find out for how long the wood has been seasoned before delivery.

If you burn wood, you should have your chimney swept at least twice a year. Do not burn any painted or treated wood. Treated or painted wood will emit chemicals which are potentially damaging to health and the environment. This also applies to MDF and chipboard.

Wood fuel is carbon neutral in other words trees absorbs as much carbon dioxide in its growth as it releases when it is burnt or if allowed to decompose naturally on the ground. For this reason, the installation of wood fuel appliances are treated more favourably in Building Regulations.