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Kiln-dried logs - For the warmth you need to get you through next winter

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  " A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart."                                   — Gladys Taber Fireplaces have long been considered the heart of the home and the true focal point of a room. They provide comfort and a feeling of content when the weather outside is cold and bleak. It’s a place to share intimate talks, tell stories, or just sit together around a warm glow.  The traditional log-burning fireplace is still considered the perfect choice for a warm, rustic living room in the U.K. Indeed, a log burning fireplace is classic and timeless, but to achieve a high temperature with little to no smoke, it’s all about the fuel… You need wood that’s not ‘green’, it must be sufficiently dry and well-seasoned. For thoroughly dry wood, kiln dried logs are the superior fuel.  Low moisture content ...

Find the best wood logs for your fire

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  Not all forms of wood burn the same way, wood from some trees can burn slowly, providing lots of heat, whilst others can burn much more quickly and produce much more smoke. When you come to purchase wood logs for your fireplace there are a few things for you to consider. Firstly, where will the wood be burnt?, do you have a wood burning stove, or an open fire? - The choice of which wood logs are best for your fire will be dependent upon how it’s being burnt. Let's look at some key factors which will help you choose the best type of wood to keep you warm throughout the colder months. Which wood logs burn better and keep my chimney clean? You should avoid using softwood as your main fuel for burning. Hardwood is a much superior choice as it is more dense and produces greater heat output when compared to softwood. Wood logs from softwood trees do catch fire quickly but they deposit a high amount of soot on your chimneys due to the high sap content. Softwoods are much better utilise...

The Wood That Burns Brighter

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The fire burning from your wood burning stove throws a soothing glow, enveloping your home with that snug and a cosy atmosphere! But the only daunting task lies in firing up your stove. Which fuel do you use to light up the fire? Your thought might go back to those large stone fireplaces giving its warmth using piles of firelogs to a gathering of family and friends. But with changing times, the piece of wood to light up your stoves have changed dramatically. There are major differences in the fire fuelled by a firelog and a fire fuelled by heat logs. The recent trend for wood-burner stoves are heat log sawdust briquettes. You have a variety of options to choose from them, so which is the right one for you? At The Green Olive Firewood we have the best heat logs that you can rely on. Heat log sawdust briquettes are made by compressing sawdust compound at a very high compression rate up to 1000kg/M3. The higher the compression rate the better the quality of the heat logs as the ...