Oak really stands out as one of the slowest burning firewood options when choosing a hardwood fuel for your home. It offers exceptional heat retention, along with its ability to sustain a long lasting fire. Oak is exceptionally dense, allowing it to burn steady and slow, making it ideal to keep your fire going without having to constantly maintain it.
Oak is a sustainable wood fuel choice, promoting responsible forestry practices, while reducing environmental impact. It is sourced from managed forests, providing you with a slow burn with outstanding heat efficiency.
Heat Output
Oak is the most popular type of wood used to heat homes throughout the UK. It has a high BTU (British Thermal Unit) rating, meaning it produces a lot of heat. Oak can provide between twenty four and thirty million BTUs per cord, making it the best hardwood to heat your home this winter season.
Slow Burn
Thanks to its dense nature, oak burns steady and slow, providing consistent heat over a long period of time. This is beneficial when you want to maintain a warm home on a cold winter night.
Best Oak for Heating
There are two common types of oak used for heating homes in the UK. Red oak is widely available. It tends to burn hot and offers a great flame, making it a common choice for firewood, while white oak is denser, burning longer than red oak. It is ideal for fireplaces where you want to enjoy long lasting heat with minimal maintenance.
Clean Burn
What most home owners love about oak is it provides a clean burn. Once oak has been kiln dried, it produces minimal smoke, reducing the risk of creosote building up in your chimney, helping to reduce the risk of chimney fires.
This hardwood also provides excellent coals that can retain their heat for an extended period of time. They are easy to light and the fire will burn hotter for longer.
Environmentally Friendly
Our oak kiln dried logs are harvested from local supplies that practice sustainable forestry, reducing your impact on the environment. With their minimal smoke and long burn times, they are an environmentally friendly choice offering a clean burn, providing you with better air quality when heating your home.
Conclusion
With the moisture reduced to less than twenty percent during the kiln drying process, our dense oak logs offer a slow burn rate with hot coals, that boost burn efficiency. Our kiln dried logs are Ready to Burn certified for immediate use in the UK, offering you a log that doesn’t use its energy to reduce moisture, but rather uses its energy to heat your home for longer. Do you have questions regarding our oak kiln dried logs? Give our Thomson Wood Fuel Ltd team a call now to discuss your heating needs.
