I realise it’s still a bit hot for most to be thinking about his but…
What are people typically paying per m2 for delivered fire wood?
Does it vary much per region?
Mine is 80 euro per m2, delivered.
About ok but what type of wood?
I pay 50 euro per stair. Cut to size and delivered and stacked
Mainly oak
It’s all oak.
50 euro, that seems very good!
Wow! 
That is very cheap.
What is the dryness? And what length? 1 stère of 50cm lengths contains more wood than 1 stère of 25cm.
We live in a forest area so a stère of 33cm hardwood (0.8m3 stacked) costs €45. It is cut and dried in situ, so transport is less than a km which helps keep costs down.
I cut my own. Costs me only the fuel for the chainsaw but its getting to be a bit of a grind and I am thinking of doing 50/50 and buying some too.
I’m no longer 20 years old and although an incredible workout, boy does my body ache after a few days tree felling, splitting and stacking.
(Actually glad I’m not 20 either …)
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Aide à la personne tax break to have someone oome cut it ? I do not know if the use of specialost equipment disqualifies it as part of your regular light garden makntenance (ie chainsaw even though many homeowners use them às part of their various garden maintenance tasks)
No, that would not be eligible for SAP. The type of things included are those that require no specialist knowledge or equipment and for petit bricolage those that can be done in under 2 hours.
Using a chainsaw would be considered outside the scope.
I think we paid 65 euros for 1 stere of mixed timbers, around 30-40cm, just dropped in front of the house. It’s locally sourced.
Surley a stere is stere, it’s a cubic m3 wood, in whatever format.
Yes there will be slightly more air gaps with 25cm lengths but there should be twice as many actual units of wood.
That’s the overall external measurements of the stack. So for 33cm logs you end up with 0.8m3 solid wood, and rest air. Other lengths alter that calculation.
And my wood stacking is erratic so our 5 stères takes up a very variable length each year!
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When we first bought the small wood behind our house, I did that for the first couple of years, and some of trees needed clearing, so it was all a good workout and provided a stock of wood (mostly oak, some beech, and ash) for future use. Now that we’ve had the heat pump installed, we hardly ever put the fire (insert) on, and the wood is piled up on a 1-in-4 slope, so not easy to bring up to the house without machinery. As a result, my wood chopping/splitting activities have reduced down to clearing some, but not all, of the windfall that occurs over the winter, and leaving the chopped wood in situ.
Does it season OK if left outside? I am an ignoramus when it comes to poeles, but I thought you needed to make sure wood for burning is thoroughly dry, so as not to have it produce tar and gum up your chimney?
I so relate to this. We have a series of terraces, and bringing up by hand 500mm rounds of tree trunk works wonders for your leg and chest muscles!
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Wood does season if left uncovered outside, but it’s better to have a cover/bache over it, especially in the winter (in my experience of 20 years wood chopping, storage etc).
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