What is Woodsure approved firewood and why should you be buying it?

But what is the best, most efficient firewood to use as fuel?

If you want to use wood as a fuel to heat a room in your home or even your whole house, or if you need to use it within a stove, ideally you want slow burning wood with a high heat output. Hardwoods are much better for use in wood burning stoves and fireplaces than softwoods. 

Hardwood comes from deciduous trees (trees that shed their leaves) that grow slowly, such as Ash, Oak and Beech. As a result of the slow growth, hardwoods are much denser than softwoods, which come from evergreen trees that grow much quicker, such as pine, spruce and cedar. Because of their greater density, hardwoods can produce up to 50% more heat output than softwoods and, since they burn slower than softwoods, you’ll need to fill your fire or stove up much more infrequently. 

What is Woodsure firewood?

Woodsure is a non-profit organisation that aims to improve the quality of woodfuel. 

They have been appointed by DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) to take charge of their Ready to Burn certification scheme, which will go hand in hand with The Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuel Standards) (England) Regulations 2020.

These new regulations will launch in May this year and will restrict the sale of coal and wet wood for home burning to cut harmful pollution to the environment and human health. 

Woodsure, Ready to Burn firewood is government approved firewood that has been fully seasoned to reduce the moisture content, or even kiln dried for better performance, and will provide a high heat output with far less harmful smoke. 

Where can you buy Woodsure firewood?

As tree surgeons, you can imagine that we have a lot of spare wood available from many of our jobs. 

We have high quality, seasoned firewood available for purchase at an affordable price. 

We sell both good quality seasoned firewood as well as kiln dried logs, which provide better performance. 

All of our firewood is a mixture of Ash, Oak and Beech and is Woodsure, Ready to Burn approved, so you can rest assured knowing that it is better for you, the environment and will provide you with a much better burn. 

To find out more, view our prices and purchase firewood visit our shop.