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Under 20%, and that is what everything we sell as seasoned or kiln dried is dried to. Above about 25% you start losing a real share of the heat to boiling off water; above 30% the fire struggles, the glass blackens and creosote builds in the flue.

For a 5kW stove burning most evenings through a Dorset winter, 3 to 4 cubic metres – roughly a full transit load. Weekend-only use is nearer 1 to 1.5. A regularly used open fire can reach 6 to 9, because most of its heat goes up the chimney.

Yes. Our seasoned range is air-dried under cover until it is ready and sold ready to burn. The only product that needs further drying is our unseasoned firewood, which is sold deliberately green at a lower price for people drying it themselves over 12 to 18 months.

Ash, if you want a single answer – high heat, long burn, lights easily and barely spits. Oak gives more heat still and burns longer but is much harder to get going. For most people a mixed hardwood load is the best buy, because it gives you light timber to start the fire and dense timber to hold it.

Free across 23 postcodes – BH1 to BH18, BH21 to BH24, BH31 and SP6, covering Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Wimborne, Ferndown, Ringwood, Verwood and the rest. Beyond that we still deliver and quote the run before you commit to anything.