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Stove Logs,
And How Many
You Actually Need

Cut to 8–10 inches for a standard UK firebox, ready to burn the day it lands. Work out a whole winter in about ten seconds from your own stove rather than somebody’s average.

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Winter Sizer

One Winter, One Number

Most people either run out in February or have a ton bag rotting in the garden by May. This works from your stove’s output and how you actually use it.

1Stove output5 kW
3 kW14 kW
2Evenings a week
3What you burn on
4How long the season lasts
Will It Fit?

Measure The Firebox First

The single most common ordering mistake is a bulk load of logs that will not go through the door at an angle. Ours are 8–10 inches — 20 to 25cm. Slide your firebox width across and see.

YOUR FIREBOX — 40cm our log: 25cm
Internal firebox width40 cm
18 cm60 cm

Eight to ten inches is the standard length in the UK for a reason: it leaves room to get a log in at an angle, close the door, and still have air moving round it. Anything from 28cm of internal width upwards is comfortable with our logs.

Below that it gets fiddly, and below about 24cm you are splitting every log before it goes in, which nobody keeps doing past the first fortnight. If your stove is one of the small 4kW models designed around 6 inch logs, tell us before you order bulk — it is a conversation worth having rather than a load you cannot use.

Measure the internal width, left to right, at the widest point of the firebox. Not the door frame, and not the outside of the stove.

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Three Common Problems

Nearly Always The Same Cause

Stove owners blame the stove, the flue, the weather and the sweep. Three times out of four it is the wood, and the three problems below are the same problem wearing different clothes.

Black glass
Wet wood, or the air closed down too far

Below roughly 260°C the smoke does not ignite. Those unburnt particles have to go somewhere, and the coolest surface in the stove is the glass.

The fix: Burn drier wood and give it more air for the first twenty minutes. The airwash only works once the fire is properly hot.
It will not get going
Wood too wet, or logs too big too soon

A cold stove needs a small, fierce fire to establish a draught. A big damp log on cold kindling smothers it before the flue warms up.

The fix: Kindling, then thin splits, then full logs. Kiln dried lights noticeably faster from cold than seasoned.
Creosote and chimney fires
The same unburnt smoke, cooled in the flue

Creosote is what black glass looks like when it happens up the chimney instead. It builds fastest on damp wood burnt slowly, and it is what actually catches fire.

The fix: Dry wood, a hot burn, and a sweep at least once a year. This is the safety argument for dry wood, not just the efficiency one.
Which Of The Four

All Ready To Burn. Pick On Habit.

Every one of these is under cover, ready the day it arrives and cut to the same 8–10 inches. The choice is about how you use the stove, not about quality.

Fastest to light

Kiln Dried

Under 20% moisture. Lights from cold in minutes, burns hottest and keeps the glass clearest. The one to buy if the stove gets lit at short notice on a wet evening.

£450full transit, 4.4m³
Best value

Seasoned Mixed

Five air-dried hardwoods. Ready to burn, and the cheapest per cubic metre of anything we sell that is ready. The default for most households burning most evenings.

£420full transit, 4.4m³
Longest burn

Seasoned Hardwood

Pure hardwood, never blended with anything lighter. Dense, so it holds a fire longer — the one for banking the stove down before bed.

£460full transit, 4.4m³
Cleanest flame

Seasoned Ash

Single species, so every load behaves the same. Low resin, very little spitting and a steady, even flame. The connoisseur’s choice, and priced sensibly for it.

£460full transit, 4.4m³
Stove Questions

What Stove Owners Ask

How much firewood do I need for a winter?
For a typical 5kW stove burning most evenings through a normal Dorset winter, budget around 3 to 4 cubic metres — which is close to a full transit load. Burn every day and it is nearer 5. An open fire rather than a stove roughly doubles it. The calculator on this page works it out from your own stove and habits rather than an average.
What size logs fit a wood burning stove?
We cut to 8 to 10 inches, about 20 to 25cm, which is the standard UK stove length and fits the large majority of fireboxes with room to get the door shut. Measure the internal width of yours before ordering a bulk load — anything from 28cm up is comfortable. Some very small stoves want 6 inch logs, and ours would need splitting for those.
Why does my stove glass keep going black?
Nearly always wet wood, or the air shut down too far, or both. Below about 260°C the smoke does not burn properly and the unburnt particles land on the glass and go up the flue as creosote. Dry wood and a proper burn on a decent air setting keeps the glass clear — the airwash on a modern stove only works if the fire is hot enough to drive it.
Is kiln dried worth the extra over seasoned?
Sometimes. Kiln dried is drier, so it lights faster, burns hotter and keeps the glass cleaner — worth it if you light the stove at short notice or you have a small, fussy firebox. Seasoned mixed is ready to burn too and is about £7 a cubic metre cheaper in a full transit. Plenty of people buy seasoned for the bulk of the winter and a few nets of kiln dried for lighting.
What burns longest overnight?
Dense hardwood. Our seasoned hardwood and seasoned ash both hold a fire longer than the mixed load, because there is no lighter timber in them. The technique matters as much as the wood: a good bed of embers, one or two large split logs rather than several small ones, and the air turned down but not shut off.
Do I need to season the wood you deliver?
No, apart from the unseasoned range, which is sold deliberately fresh for people stocking up for future winters. Everything else — kiln dried, seasoned mixed, seasoned hardwood, seasoned ash — is ready to burn the day it arrives. Keep it dry once it is with you: off the ground, covered on top, open at the sides.
How often should the chimney be swept?
Once a year at minimum for a stove burning dry wood, and twice for heavy use or if you burn anything damp. Wet wood is the thing that builds creosote fastest, which is the thing that causes chimney fires, so dry wood is a safety argument as much as an efficiency one. A sweep will also tell you honestly whether your wood is up to scratch.
Can I burn wood in Bournemouth and Poole?
Yes. There are no smoke control areas in Bournemouth, Christchurch or Poole at present, so there is no legal restriction on burning wood in a stove or open fire. BCP Council recommends dry seasoned wood and Ecodesign appliances, which is sound advice regardless. Local rules can change, so it is worth checking the council's own page if you are buying a new stove.

Order the winter in one go and stop thinking about it.

A full transit is 4.4m³ tipped where you want it. Free delivery, pay on the day.

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