1.2 m³ supplied
Kiln Dried Barrow Bag
Barrow bag × 6
£75.00 each
Firewood calculator
How much firewood do I need for winter?
Answer four questions for a planning estimate, then choose the storage option that suits you. Current pack volumes and prices help you decide what to order.
Your burning pattern
Planning estimate
1.1 m³
of loose kiln-dried hardwood, approximately 416 kg.
What we’d send you
6 × Kiln Dried Barrow Bag
Barrow bag · 1.2 m³ supplied
About £7.89 per evening, excluding delivery.
See this product →How this is estimated
2 nights × 5 hours × 26 weeks × 1.6 kg/hour. Planning density is 380 kg per loose cubic metre.
Actual use varies. This is not a price or delivery quote.
Current options
Ways to cover that estimate
Recommendations use current availability and published pack volumes. Final prices, stock and delivery are confirmed before payment.
1.5 m³ supplied
Kiln Dried Bulk Bag
Loose volume filled bag × 3
£140.00 each
2.0 m³ supplied
Premium Kiln Dried Logs
Loose tipped × 2
£225.00 each
Why people bother
Dry wood is the whole difference
Wet logs hiss, smoke, tar up your flue and give out half the heat you paid for. Properly dried hardwood lights first time and burns clean — which is the entire reason we pay to have it properly kiln dried rather than just selling what comes off the saw.
The short answer
Most UK homes land
between 2 and 5 cubic metres
If you just want a number before you order, these are the bands the trade works to. Our calculator above narrows it down using your stove, your nights and your hours.
How you burnRough season needWhat that is from us
Weekends onlyA fire Friday to Sunday, October to March1–2 m³2–4 bulk bags, or one premium load
Three or four nights a weekThe most common pattern we deliver to2–3 m³One premium load plus a top-up
Most eveningsLit after work, banked down at bedtime3–5 m³Two premium loads, or a standing order
Wood is the main heatingDay and evening, often rural or off-grid5–7 m³A season contract, priced per cubic metre
Open fire rather than a stoveLovely to look at, hopeless at holding heatup to 3×Expect to burn three times a stove’s volume
These bands match the general guidance published by HETAS and most UK log merchants. Your own house, insulation and stove efficiency will move the number either way.
Getting compared like for like
Loose, stacked, bulk bag,
builder’s bag, barrow bag
More people get caught out by the measure than by the price. Here is what the words actually mean before you compare two quotes.
Loose vs stacked
A loose cubic metre is logs tipped in, air gaps and all. A stacked cubic metre is the same space packed tight, so it holds noticeably more wood. Always ask which one a price refers to.
Bulk and builder’s bags
There is no legal standard size. A “bulk bag” can be anywhere from a third of a cubic metre to a full one, so a cheap bag can easily be the dearer wood.
Nets and barrow bags
Handy for topping up and for tight access, but the most expensive way to buy wood per cubic metre. Fine as a top-up, painful as a whole season.
Logs per cubic metre
Depending on log length and how tightly it is packed, a cubic metre holds somewhere around 200 to 300 logs. Ours are cut to 9–10 inches.
Storage space
Roughly one square metre of floor at a metre high per cubic metre of logs. Two cubic metres takes about the footprint of a small wardrobe.
Weight
A loose cubic metre of kiln dried hardwood weighs somewhere near 350–400kg. Worth knowing before you plan to move it by hand.
We publish the volume and rough weight against every load we sell, so you can price us honestly against anyone else.
Six things that change the number
Why two houses on the
same street burn differently
1
Stove size and efficiency
A 5kW stove sips compared with a 10kW one. A modern Ecodesign stove gets far more heat from the same log than something twenty years old.
2
Open fire or stove
Open fires send most of the heat up the chimney. Plan on roughly three times the wood for the same warmth in the room.
3
Hours, not just nights
Four hours on a Saturday is a different animal to a stove lit at eight in the morning and banked down at eleven at night.
4
How dry the wood is
Wet logs waste energy boiling off water. Under 20% moisture is the target — anything wetter and you burn more to get less.
5
Species and density
Oak and beech are dense and burn long. Birch lights easily but goes quicker. A mixed hardwood load gives you both.
6
Your house
Insulation, ceiling height, draughts and which room the stove is in all move the figure more than people expect.
Still wondering?
Ten questions we get
asked every week
How many logs in a cubic metre, loose versus stacked, how much space you need, when to buy. Plain answers, no sales pitch.
Still not sure? Just ring.
Talk it through with the family who cut and deliver your wood. We’ll help you work out what you need.