Can also get a scavenging licence for £50 to go in and collect your own after they’ve been felling.

They stopped doing them.

Never buy wood by weight, but it by volume.

Edit: Scavenging licence seems to be local based some do it. NW FC is £120 for a year.

bristolbiker is scaremongering with his 15m3 figure!

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To qualify – that was last winter, which was a lot colder than this year – this year, looks like we’re going to come in at around 8 m^3 used. Our wood source is free, and essentially limitless, bar about 5 days work each year to fell, split and stack, so we don’t rein-in the fuel use over the winter – and will quite often have chimnea patio heaters on in the summer (that really does go through wood….. ) as well as occasion evening burns through late spring/early autumn which all comes out of the wood stores. This summers project to to build wood store No 3 to add another 4-ish m^3 capacity…..

I have a 11kw stove, 3kw of this goes to the room, the rest goes into the central heating system, we work five days a week so it’s only used in the evenings and weekends, we’ve used about 5 cubic meters over this winter and it’s cost has been about £300.

A 7kw fire in a small front room is going to be like a Swiss sauna, have the installers worked out the correct size stove for your room?

My front room is 18′ x 13′ and 3kw was all that was recommended.

yes, its variable up to 7kw, its base level is 3kw

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-7TKEQ6

Something that a big log can be made into

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