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03/02/25

Hello All!

Busy period for us now as Winter drags on towards hopefully a bright and sunny spring. Stocks are good ( We sell all year round) deliveries are busy though, we are a small family business and don't have the delivery resources of Amazon or the like, so please think of that when you order. We are currently looking at approx 1 week to 10 days lead time for deliveries (although that can change if we have room on the vehicle and are heading in your direction), one vehicle on the road and only so many hours in the day. Leave us a message and we will get back to you either that day or the following morning if we are working late, which is usual!

Answer Service 01434 220115

Email. rawlogs@btinternet.com

Look forward to hearing from you. 

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As the text below will tell you we now comply fully with the latest legislation in relation to log sales. Don't forget that all our logs are sourced from the land around Rawlogs base in the North Tyne, not imported and therefore without all the carbon footprint and ridiculous often international transport requirements that a lot of logs on the market suffer from. Your Rawlogs logs will typically have grown, fallen and then been subsequently dried all within approx. 25 miles of your stove.

 

A lot of the trees that provide our current stock were blown over in the severe storms that took place over the last couple of years. This created one hell of a mess that we are still working our way through. The trees are stacked on top of each other, often inaccessible and create much more work than our usual planned felling programmes. However we thrive on hard work and the end product is excellent local high quality firewood.

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The New Clean Air Act

As you may have heard the new Clean Air Act has come into place. This means there are now controls on solid fuels that heat the home, of which logs are included.

DEFRA are enforcing the new legislation and they state:-

"To help improve the air we breathe and ensure householders choose cleaner fuels, sales of traditional house coal and wet wood (the two most polluting fuels) are being phased out in all of England from 1 May 2021.  Wood sold in volumes of less than 2m³ must be certified as 'Ready to Burn'. This confirms it has a moisture content of 20% or less.  Manufactured solid fuels must also be certified as 'Ready to Burn' to confirm they meet sulphur and smoke emission limits.  Traditional house coal (bituminous coal) can no longer be sold, apart from coal supplied loose direct to customers by approved coal merchants."

This is a big and costly challenge for us.  The only practical way that we can turn over our stock quick enough and hit the sub 20% moisture target is to force dry or kiln dry the logs. 

The benefits are that the logs produced are (when burnt efficiently) as clean as you can get. They give off more heat energy so you can reduce the amount you burn to get the same heat. 

The drawbacks are that an extra drying process adds cost to the production of the logs.

From now on we are looking at only providing kiln dried logs. Our service will continue and as our existing customers know this means we always try and get your logs where you want them, not just tip and run! 

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Please email orders on rawlogs@btinternet.com or call us on 01434 220115 (ANSWER SERVICE)

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