Birch firewood is a highly valued fuel in most countries. It provides high quality, easily available, and has outstanding burning qualities. Birch is known for providing a clean and long lasting burn, making it perfect when heating the home.
Why Choose Birch Wood?
Birch burns clean, producing very little smoke, creosote, and particulates. This makes it ideal for anyone that values cleanliness when using their open fireplace or wood burning stove. Compared to other woods, such as pine, birch produces less creosote, helping to reduce the risk of chimney fires, saving you money on chimney sweep services.
Clean burning is important for numerous reasons, including protecting your health, while improving air quality, not to mention helping your heating system last longer. Clean burning offers many benefits that appeal to UK home owners.
Improves Health
By choosing clean burning fuel, such as our kiln dried birch wood, you reduce indoor pollutants that negatively impact respiratory health and well being. This is important when you have younger children or elderly family members in your home that have respiratory diseases and are sensitive to airborne particulates. Birch releases fewer pollutants into the atmosphere and into your home, improving the quality of your living space.
Improves the Lifespan of Your Fireplace or Wood Burner
When you choose a clean burning wood, you have less creosote and ash to clean. Creosote builds up over time, reducing the efficiency and safety of your chosen heating appliance. Creosote builds up in your chimney or flue and is the leading cause of chimney fires in the UK. Choosing a cleaner burning birch wood, reduces maintenance, while extending the life of your chosen heating appliance.
Environmentally Friendly
When you choose birch kiln dried logs, you reduce your impact on the environment, as they do not cause major air pollution. With less smoke and creosote, not to mention the airborne particulates, you reduce air pollution problems. In addition to this, with many UK towns and cities now being smoke free areas to protect the environment, you need to choose a clean burning wood to reduce smoke and pollutants, protecting ecosystems and helping to mitigate climate change.
Save Money
Did you know when you buy our birch kiln dried logs, you are buying Ready to Burn certified wood. This means the moisture content is less than twenty percent, which optimises your heating costs. Our birch kiln dried logs provide outstanding heat output with a long burn time, providing you the desired heat by using fewer logs, saving you money in the long run.
What Makes Birch Wood Different From Other Woods for Heating?
Birch has a BTU (British Thermal Unit) of 23.6. This means it offers good heat output with a cleaner burn. It is a well balanced choice, suitable for heating, providing you with a good heat to burn ratio. Oak, on the other hand, is known for its high BTU, which can reach as high as 25.7. Oak also offers a long burn with a high heat output.
Please note that these numbers are approximates and the exact numbers are determined by the moisture content and species of birch or oak wood. When it comes to choosing the best firewood for your home, we recommend focusing on the moisture content, which should always be below twenty percent, providing you with a clean burn, high heat output, and long burn.
Conclusion
Birch firewood offers clean burn, high thermal value and long combustion time, making it the perfect choice for heating your home this winter season. When you compare birch to other firewood, it offers a balanced solution to meet your heating and maintenance needs. Here at Thomson Wood Fuel Ltd, we supply high quality, Ready to Burn certified, birch kiln dried logs, providing you with an efficient burn. Our kiln dried logs have a low moisture content of less than twenty percent, ensuring you enjoy a clean, high heat, and long burn experience. Make your selection today and stay warm this winter.
