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WOODLEIGH WOOD
Quality - ' Naturally air dried ' barn stored Firewood
Kingsbridge, Totnes, Ivybridge & Dartmouth.
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OIL, GAS and ELECTRICITY prices are at an all time high, so now is the time to look at the options.
If you care about the Environment you have a choice:
A - Help protect the planet for your children and buy our local Devon grown ' Naturally air dried ' Firewood.
- Or
B - Buy Kiln dried firewood that has been forced dried, often using
fossil fuels creating massive particulate emissions.
Kiln dried firewood may have travelled thousands of miles in gas guzzling lorries, again producing huge diesel emissions, all the way from Russia, Lithuania or other parts of Eastern Europe
Our locally grown Quality - ' Naturally air dried ' Firewood, which we sell to hundreds of loyal customers around the South Hams is all you need !
Firewood is sold by the 'Industry Standard' - 'Loose m3 ' and the Firewood is tipped loose off our tipper vehicle for you to move and store away. This avoids the use of any packaging.
Please ensure vehicles etc. are clear - all ready for your delivery.
Orders can be paid for via Online or telephone banking or COD (cash on delivery)
The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020
You will all be aware of the headlines in the news and media about changes to the Law on selling firewood, which was phased in, affecting larger Firewood producers, from May 2021 and now includes all producers from 1st May this year - 2022.
Basically there are 3 classifications of firewood:
1: READY TO BURN
2: DRY SEASONED
3: PART SEASONED
THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IF YOU BUY FIREWOOD TO BURN ON A WOODBURNER OR OPEN FIRE.
The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020
A - From the 1st May 2022 the Regulations apply to every Firewood retailer in England no
matter how much or how little Firewood they sell.
B - READY TO BURN. You can only legally supply or sell wood fuel in volumes of less than 2 cubic metres if it is certified as ‘Ready to Burn’. This confirms it has a moisture content (MC) of 20% or less.
Woodleigh Wood have already been Audited and Certified to supply ‘Ready to Burn’, which we chose to do in September 2020 and as such, we are required to have ongoing annual Audits and have a unique Certification No. which is listed on the ‘Woodsure’ website.
C - If you order 1m3 of Firewood from any source, it legally has to be certified as ‘Ready to Burn’.
D - DRY SEASONED. Wood fuel sales of Dry Seasoned of 2 cubic metres or more does not need to be Certified. Drying instructions stated in the Regulations are required to be provided even if the wood is below 20% moisture content.
E - PART SEASONED. Wood fuel sales of Part-Seasoned of 2 cubic metres or more does not need to be Certified. Drying instructions stated in the Regulations are required to be provided.
SUMMARY.
Whenever possible we encourage all our customers to continue to buy Part-Seasoned and
Dry Seasoned firewood from us in quantities of 2m3 and above, just like they have for
many years. These are the 2 best value for money types of firewood you can buy.
‘Ready to burn’ firewood will be available from us for those who can’t possibly store more
than 1m3 but will be more expensive than Dry Seasoned, as we naturally air dry it and it
has to be stored for longer just to lose a few % MC more than our dry seasoned.
Our Dry seasoned firewood generally has a MC of 17 – 24%.
I can see no advantage whatsoever in buying the more expensive ‘Ready to burn’ firewood.
Nearly all ‘Ready to burn’ you see offered for sale has been force dried in kilns using fossil
fuels, woodfuel or has been imported from Russia, Latvia or Eastern Europe and
transported in huge gas guzzling lorries, producing toxic carbon monoxide emissions
harmful to humans and the planet. Even UK produced Kiln Dried firewood is not a local
product and will have travelled long distances in lorries.
This can never be the right thing to be considering buying – say no to Kiln Dried firewood !
Part Seasoned firewood is the best value firewood available.
All our timber comes from FSC Certified Woodlands and is from local forestry and
woodland thinnings, where poorer trees are removed to allow trees for timber to thrive.
A 2m3 delivery of our perfect split firewood when stacked neatly only takes up 1 1/3 m3.
Our aim at Woodleigh Wood is to try to minimise the effect the ongoing increasing timber prices has on the prices we charge you for our firewood.
We are encouraging our Firewood customers to increase their storage capacity, which will help you and us.
Additional storage allows you to buy and store our lower priced Part-seasoned firewood in the Spring/ early summer and make substantial cost savings by buying in bulk at our Special Offer prices.
If stored outside with excellent airflow, covered correctly and following our guidance on the Website, Firewood bought before the end of June at the very latest will be ready by Autumn.
100’s of our customers have been doing this for many years and return to order again every Spring.
Firewood is delivered tipped loose off a tipper truck for you to move in a tub trug or wheelbarrow and store away.
Wheelbarrows and Tub Trugs are available locally from Martin Pears Engineering near Halwell.
2024 Price List - IN STOCK ready for delivery
Ready to burn, Dry Seasoned or Part Seasoned
Around 98% of our customers now buy the 50/50 % Softwood / Hardwood mix - This is what we burn ourselves and what we recommend for all the right reasons - PLEASE SEE FIREWOOD TAB - at top of page.
Bags of dry split Kindling for fire lighting - now slightly diff. size @ £5.00 each.
Due to rising transport costs a £10 - 25 charge will apply to certain areas and remote locations to us could be additional depending on order size.
Understandably some of this increase will reflect in our Firewood prices.
LATEST NEWS ***
IN THE PRESS:
You may have seen the headline -
Wood burners : Most polluting fuels to be banned in the home
' READY TO BURN FIREWOOD '
NO NEED TO PANIC - as Woodleigh Wood have always supplied 'Ready to burn' Firewood that complies with the latest legislation coming into force, which controls what Firewood is legally allowed to be sold in quantities of 1m3 and below as 'Ready to burn'.
In addition we will still be able to offer you our Part - seasoned Firewood to buy in bulk that we have been selling for many years, which allows you to save considerably on cost by finishing off seasoning the firewood yourself in your own woodstore.
(Comprehensive drying advice is given on this Website - just click on the FIREWOOD tab at top of this page).
ALSO - We can still sell our excellent Dry Seasoned Firewood that we have been selling for many years - provided it is in 2m3 quantities or above when the Legislation is compulsory for us from May 2022.
THIS IS WHAT MOST CUSTOMERS NOW BUY !!!
They have increased their storage and are buying Part seasoned in 2m3 quantities and when they run out buy our dry seasoned in 2m3 quantities that they have been buying for years.
You can buy the 'Ready to burn' but it is more expensive.
Please send us an email if you would like to be added to our 'Special Offer email list' to hear about the 2 or 3 special offers we have each year. ( Most existing customers will already be on the list).
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ORDERING BY TEXT RECOMMENDED ( or EMAIL ) - AS WE ARE OUTSIDE FROM DAWN TO DUSK.
Phone messages left on voicemail may take A little longer to
receive!
By Mobile or Text: 07808 882 623
By Email: wood@woodleighwood.co.uk
By Phone:
Kingsbridge 01548 550 000
Totnes 01803 640 444
Ivybridge 01752 477 002
DELIVERY DRIVER needs your mobile No. and a Dropped pin of your location - exactly where to tip Firewood:
HOW TO SHARE A - 'GOOGLE MAPS' - DROPPED PIN of your location FROM YOUR MOBILE FOR THE DRIVER:
Step 1: Open the Google Maps app on your iPhone or Android phone. ( APPLE MAPS IS NO GOOD !!! )
Step 2: The map will show your location with a flashing blue circle with a white centre. You can stretch the map with your fingers to enlarge, so it’s easier to pinpoint where to tip firewood.
Step 3: Press and hold the screen to drop a pin- exactly where you would like your firewood tipped. A light touch is all that’s needed for the RED dropped oin to appear.
Step 4: Share the location by scrolling the tabs at the bottom of the screen until you see Share – Tap Share.
Step 5: Then select Messages, Messenger or WhatsApp to share the link to 07808 882 623
WE ALSO NEED A PHOTO OF WHERE TO TIP THAT SHOWS YOUR HOUSE OR OTHER CLEAR FEATURE IN THE PHOTO.
Please Note :
WE WILL NO LONGER DELIVER WITHOUT A PHOTO DUE TO INCORRECT NFORMATION BEING PROVIDED ON OCCASION.
ORDERING BY EMAIL IS RECOMMENDED ( or TEXT if no email ) - AS WE ARE OFTEN OUTSIDE FROM DAWN TO DUSK.
Phone messages left on voicemail will take a bit longer to reply to!
Our aim at Woodleigh Wood is to try to minimise the effect the ongoing increasing timber prices has on the prices we charge you for our firewood.
We are encouraging our Firewood customers to increase their storage capacity, which will help you and us.
Additional storage allows you to buy and store our lower priced Part – seasoned firewood in the Spring and make additional substantial cost savings by buying in bulk at Special Offer prices.
E.g. Buying 2m3 of Part - seasoned 50/50 on Special Offer is a lot less than buying Dry seasoned in Autumn - So it's definately worth extending or building a larger Firewood store.
Firewood is sold by the 'Industry Standard' - 'Loose m3 ' and the Firewood therefore reduces substantially when neatly stacked. Please be aware of this before you order Firewood from us.
1m3 of firewood takes up approximately 0.6 m3 when neatly stacked, so 2m3 takes up approximately 1.2 m3, 3m3 takes up approximately 1.8m3, and 4m3 takes up approximately 2.4 m3.
Lots of you are now building narrow wall storage against garage walls etc. - 20” wide that take 2 rows of 10” logs with sturdy shelves. These take minimum floor space and allow for storage of several m3 of Part – seasoned firewood to finish seasoning yourself.
A wall storage 3ft long x 5ft high x 20” wide will store 1m3 of 10” stacked firewood. So a 8ft long store will hold approximately 3m3. All then store needs is a sloping roof and not face due South West to avoid rain driving in. Best outside but towards the front of a garage can work.
The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 - made on the 9th October 2020 - Require that we supply the following statement that applies to wood that has - 'Not been seasoned ':
"This wood is not suitable for burning until it has been dried. You should not burn wood until it has a moisture content (mc) of 20% or less.
Wet wood contains moisture which creates smoke and harmful particulates when burnt. As well as being harmful to your health and the environment, this can damage your stove and chimney and is an inefficient way to heat your home. Dry it in a sunny, well-aired space for at least two years, keeping rain off in the winter.
Radial cracks and bark that comes off easily suggests wood that is ready for burning. Test the wood when you think it is ready for burning, ideally with a moisture meter. First calibrate the meter and then measure a freshly split surface to get the best reading. "
Note: Moisture meters available measure on a 'Dry basis' so if you test a log and the reading is 25%, this means that the log is at 20%.
We sell 'Part seasoned firewood' that will of course not take 2 years to season. If you follow our guidance on storage it will finish seasoning very quickly during the Summer months - you just need to have forward planning and buy before June at the very latest.
The legislation that came into force in MAY 2022 still allows you to buy 2m3 of our Part - seasoned Firewood to finish drying in your own woodstore.
WE CAN STILL CONTINUE TO SELL OUR DRY SEASONED FIREWOOD IN DELIVERY QUANTITIES OF 2m3 -
which GENERALLY IS 17 - 25 % MC that all our customers have been
buying for years.
We are required to tell you to read the same statement above from the Regulations in relation to dry seasoned firewood as well.
The idea of printing off a hard paper copy of the statement above and giving it to every customer each and every time we deliver part or dry seasoned firewood, kind of defeats the object of caring for the planet.
We will have some copies as required in the vehicle, which will be offered to you and for those who do not have access to our Website.
So please help us to keep firewood prices down - Buy Part - seasoned Firewood now in quanties of 2m3 and above, increase the size of your storage, store more and save money.
YOUR LOCAL RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLIER
PROFESSIONAL - RELIABLE - CONSISTENT
We are a local family business situated right here near Woodleigh in the heart of the South Hams.
Employing local people, processing local timber and providing a service for the local community keeping everyone warm in winter.
Many people rely on us 100%, as a woodburner is often their only form of heating.
We in turn support the local economy by using other local businesses and services in the course of running our business and living our lives here.
Locally grown timber from Woodland thinnings - a sustainable and renewable fuel.
This is our advertising vehicle - you may have seen it around.
We park it at various locations throughout the South Hams to let local people know where they can buy good quality firewood locally.
It is rarely in one place more than 7 days and is strategically placed so as not to cause an obstruction or offend anybody and is in compliance with all relevant UK legislation.
On average we are at a location 3 or 4 times a year.
Before parking at locations with grass the area is cut and any litter picked so as not to inconvienience local contractors who may be responsible for the grass cutting.
We have found the local community to be very supportive of our business and the way it is operated.
Woodleigh Wood is a local family run business who supplies and delivers Hard and Soft Quality ' Naturally air dried ' Firewood directly to your door 7 days a week.
Woodleigh Wood are able to supply you with exactly the Firewood you require for your Wood Burner, Multifuel Burner or Open Fire.
We are now able to provide 500mm (20") long logs for Bio-mass boilers in Part - seasoned and Dry Seasoned timber.
OUR FIREWOOD IS AVAILABLE IN:
8", 10" & 12" LONG LOGS (or any combination of the 3 sizes).
At this time of year, 98% of our customers buy Dry seasoned 50 / 50 10" small split logs - @ £ 275 - 285 / 2m3 depending on location.