Choosing and Caring for your firewood
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About firewood
Quality, well seasoned firewood will help your wood stove or fireplace burn cleaner and more efficiently, while green or wet wood can cause smoking problems, odour problems, rapid creosote build-up and possibly even dangerous chimney fires. All of our wood is seasoned and stored in doors in our circulated and heated 300′ facility. Well seasoned firewood is easier to start, produces more heat, and burns cleaner. 95% of our hardwood is ash and provide high heat and minimal smoke. The edges of well-seasoned, ready-to-burn wood typically appear dark with cracks and splits visible in the wood. Good wood is light weight and makes a clunk sound when two pieces are hit together.
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Storing Firewood
Even well seasoned firewood can be ruined by bad storage. Exposed to constant rain or covered in snow, wood will reabsorb large amounts of water, making it unfit to burn and causing it to rot before it can be used. Wood should be stored off the ground if possible and protected from excess moisture when weather threatens. The ideal situation is a wood shed, where there is a roof but open or loose sides for plenty of air circulation to promote drying. Next best would be to keep the wood pile in a sunny location and cover it on rainy or snowy days, being sure to remove the covering during fair weather to allow air movement and to avoid trapping ground moisture under the covering. Also don’t forget that your woodpile also looks like heaven to termites, so it’s best to only keep a week or so worth of wood near the house in easy reach. With proper storage you can turn even the greenest wood into great firewood in 6 months or a year, and it can be expected to last 3 or 4 years if necessary.
Buying Firewood
Firewood is generally sold by volume, the most common measure being the cord. Other terms often employed are face cord, rick, or often just a truckload. A standard cord of firewood is 128 cubic feet of wood, generally measured as a pile 8 feet long by 4 feet tall by 4 feet deep. A face cord is also 8 feet long by 4 feet tall, but it is only as deep as the wood is cut, so a face cord of 16″ wood actually is only 1/3 of a cord, 24″ wood yields 1/2 of a cord, and so on.
Proudly serving Welland, Wainfleet, Port Colborne, Dunnville, Fort Erie, Wellandport, Lincoln and surrounding areas. Just give us a call or stop by and pick up your own firewood! To place an order call 905-734-5703. We can usually deliver within a day or two. Large quantity and wholesale prices available.
