Choosing your logs
Explore kiln-dried and Irish air-dried hardwood, and find the right logs for your home.
Hardwood for your home
Hardwood logs for sale from Kildare Logs are seasoned for over a year to provide our customers with some of the best high energy long lasting firewood for sale on the market. Kildare Logs have Hardwood logs for sale such as Ash, Oak and Beech amongst others. Hardwoods such as oak are very dense giving each log high high heat output and a longer burn than other hardwoods but gives less flame. Beech is a great option: it is very dense but still gives you a bright red flame.
Seasoning Irish firewood in Co. Kildare.
Kiln-dried logs for sale here at Kildare Logs are sourced from sustainable forestry in Eastern Europe. We have long been an advocate of only selling Irish firewood but with the shortages in Irish hardwood stock, we decided to provide a way of buying kiln-dried firewood that was ethically sourced and properly kiln-dried so you know that the wood is clean.
Different hardwoods suit different needs. Compare how easily they light, how long they burn and the size suitable for your appliance.
Birch lights readily and produces a lively flame, making it useful for getting a fire going. Pairing birch with slower-burning oak gives a useful balance: choose one crate of each with our mix-and-match savings, or a mixed hardwood bag for smaller amounts, subject to availability.
Ash provides great heat with a medium burn duration. Ash is valued for its heat output. Any firewood can spark; use a suitable fireguard for an open fire. Ash firewood has long been the favourite firewood for heating Irish homes. It is a native tree that has been used down the ages in Irish culture such as the use of the butt of the tree to produce hurls.
Hornbeam and Beech logs provide high heat and longer burning than ash logs as they are denser, they also keep a nice flame so they are our top choice for firewood logs. Beech has a reddish tinge to its colour with a smooth dark bark whereas Hornbeam is paler in colour and blackish smooth bark.
Oak is the densest choice of logs as it is a slow-growing hardwood, they also burn slowly and produce plenty of heat. Oak is a great choice of firewood especially if you want a slow burning time, they can though be a bit problematic if your stove has low airflow (draw) as they can be a little harder to get going.
Crates & bags
Seasoned in Ireland
Hardwood Logs are logs harvested from deciduous trees such as Ash, Beech and Oak. These three types of timber have high calorific values, meaning they produce a lot of energy per log. As a result of this, you don’t need to fill your stove as often and more than likely find the stove will reach higher temperatures. Our air-dried firewood has a moisture content of 20% or less; our kiln-dried firewood has a moisture content of 18% or less.
How do we get to these levels in our climate you may ask? Well, we have some fairly unique drying regimes that are based mainly around airflow and getting heat into the logs to evaporate out the water. We do all this by harnessing the power of nature. You can read more about this on our blog search for the power of Polytunnels for drying firewood.
Starting the fire should be done with some kindling to get the wood up to temperature fast. This is the key not just for a warm room but also to keeping the stove and chimney working as they should. Hardwood burns cleanly and hot so long as it's dry. You will find your stove windows will stay cleaner for longer and when up to temperature will self-clean the windows.
Other benefits of dry seasoned hardwood are less polluting smoke along with less tar build-up. A great plus of dry hardwood firewood also is the fact that most of the log is turned into energy resulting in very little ash left behind. Check the current product options for availability before ordering.
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