Real Wood Guide

The definitive guide to burning wood biomass fuels - real wood and manufactured wood based products as a form of eco energy in your home and garden.

Burning Wood as a fuel

Wood burning in the UK has become very popular in the last few years as more and more people have come to recognise the benefits of using wood for burning.

There has been a dramatic increase in sales of wood burning stoves, multi-fuel stoves and wood burning boilers and cookers.

Real wood has great benefits

The number of UK people choosing to swap from other sources of heating and opting to use wood fuel for burning for hot water, heating or for social uses like burning wood in a chimenea or a garden firepit has been significant.

Wood burning emits a lovely aroma and if you use seasoned logs or kiln dried logs you will get extra benefit of producing more heat from dried logs.

Logs 2U sources wood for burning from sustainable FSC certified woodlands in the UK, so you can be sure that whenever you buy wood for burning (clearly marked as FSC in the product description) from our website it will always be from a well managed woodland or forest.

The Real Wood Guide is a series of online articles about using real wood as a fuel.

Subjects in the Real Wood Guide

• Buying and installing a stove
• Burning Wood and the Clean Air Act
  
• Choosing a Log Supplier
• Maintaining your stove
  
• Create a perfect log fire
• Splitting Logs
• Burning wood and other solid fuels
• Glossary of terms

• What are the benefits of burning wood fuels?

• Why should I burn logs?

• What's the benefit of Kiln Dried Logs?

• Which is better - hardwood logs or softwood logs?

• What is the differences between seasoned logs and kiln dried logs?

• How to season logs?

• Difference between seasoned and unseasoned logs?

• Understanding the mositure content of logs?

• What sizes and weights are the logs?