South Yorkshire Firewood

South Yorkshire Firewood is part of Legacy Firewood and a trading name of Legacy Habitat Management Ltd, a small independent Sheffield based business undertaking ecological and wildlife mitigation contracting works nationwide. We focus on the supply of firewood to the Sheffield and wider region.

We deliver throughout South Yorkshire, parts of West Yorkshire and parts of Derbyshire (mostly Hope Valley and East Derbyshire). You can check whether you are in our delivery area by entering your postcode into our Address Checker on our Delivery Page.

The best way to order is to give us a call on 0114 243 03034 where we can book you a time slot and process your payment. Alternatively, you can use the Enquiries Page on our website or send us an email.

We accept all major debit/credit cards over the phone, except American Express, and prefer to take payment at the time of order. This enables us to secure your delivery slot and saves us from having to chase payments for scheduled deliveries. We can also accept payment by bank transfer but can’t fully secure your delivery slot until payment has been received.

This depends on a few factors. Firstly, time of year and how busy we are, and secondly, we have to try and combine your delivery with other deliveries to your area. This helps with our efficiency, keeps vehicle miles & driver time down and helps to keep costs down. At quieter times we may be able to deliver to you within a few days to 1 week, at busier periods this may extend to 2 weeks from placing your order. It really depends on the availability of free delivery slots to your area at the time.

We generally deliver our kiln dried hardwood firewood logs in standard builder’s bulk bags. These are delivered on a small dropside (transit sized) van fitted with a small crane that is able to lower the bag to the ground at the back or side of the vehicle. These vans can fit onto most driveways that you can get a large car onto. If you have a particularly narrow or restricted driveway, or delivery location, please discuss this with us when you place your order.

We normally say no to this one but will try our best to find a mutually acceptable location to place the bulk bag. The cranes fitted to our vehicles are designed to be as light as possible so that they don’t compromise the weight carrying capacity of the vehicle. They can really only lower the bags to the ground at the back or passenger side of the van. We also have to minimise the risk of causing any damage to property or injury to people, so it is important to ensure that bags are lowered to the ground as soon as possible. Our drivers will use their discretion as to whether manipulating the bag into a certain position is possible and safe to do so.

We try our best to deliver firewood to you whatever the circumstances. If you live in a terrace house with no drive for example, we can drop a bulk bag onto the roadside or pavement as long as you are present to be unloading the bag immediately so as not to cause an obstruction on the public highway. We would need to have access at the roadside (a generous roadside parking space big enough for a large car) to be able to make the delivery. It’s sometimes worth ensuring that your car, if you have one, is reserving a space close to your property that can then be moved when we arrive.

We can also pack your bulk bag quantity of logs into 16 smaller net bags that can be carried onto your property if a bulk bag delivery is not going to be possible. This would have to be pre-arranged when ordering and a surcharge for packing into nets would apply in this case to account for the extra labour involved.

If we are unable to make a delivery once we have arrived, we may have to charge a redelivery fee for a return journey.

Firewood is normally measured by volume and not by weight, due to the variation in the weight of wood types. Our bulk bags are a standard builder’s bulk bag measuring 850x850x850mm, however, when loaded the bags bulge on all 5 side & bottom panels. Bag manufacturers won’t quote a volume measurement as this bulging is variable depending on the contents of the bag. In our experience, bulk bags hold approximately 0.8 cubic metres when filled with hardwood logs. We can deliver Sheffield Firewood in bulg bags.

No. All of the timber we use for our Sheffield firewood is felled in the UK under licence by a number of reputable forestry contractors as part of sustainably managed woodland projects. It is then transported to our processing yard within the region and cut and split into logs. This is then dried in our state-of-the-art heated floor drying barn. This system is powered by a biomass boiler running on waste wood chip and sawdust from our log processing and produces green electricity to run farm operations and contributing excess power to the National Grid.

All of our firewood delivered from Sheffield is British sourced hardwood of species that is all known as good for burning. We sell this as mixed kiln dried hardwood firewood. Typically, this could be Ash, Beech, Oak, Sycamore, Birch but may contain other species too. Due to the variable nature of firewood and timber supply, we can’t completely guarantee that each batch you receive will give you exactly the same burning experience, that is one of the beauties of burning wood. All firewood is dried to below 20% moisture content so that it meets ‘Ready to Burn’ criteria and provides as much consistency as is possible.

This is a very common question but one that is impossible to provide an answer to. It is very dependent on how often you use your wood burning appliance, the type of appliance and flue, and the adjustments you make to the air control valves on your appliance. Even the same make & model of wood burning stove can have very different burning characteristics in a different setting.

Ideally, a purpose-built wood store under cover from the rain but with open sides for ventilation is the best option for storing your logs. Alternatively, a stack of logs not in direct contact with the ground and covered over with a tarpaulin or polythene sheet is also suitable, as long as they receive some ventilation. Contrary to popular belief, logs can tolerate a reasonable amount of rain if left exposed for short periods. Firewood logs need to be sat in pretty heavy consistent rain to fully absorb water, even so, only the outer few millimetres of wood will become wet. This can easily be dried off by bringing the logs inside for a short while to dry off before refuelling your fire.

We can collect these from you next time we deliver. If you aren’t going to be in, you can leave the bag out for us to collect. You can use it to mark the location of where you would like your freshly filled bulk bag leaving. We reuse the bulk bags as often as possible to reduce waste.

Burning unseasoned or poorly seasoned wood can cause excess soot and creosote build-up in your wood stove and flue. However, blackened stove glass is more often than not a sign that you are not getting enough airflow through the firebox of your stove to result in complete combustion of the firewood. Try opening up the air flow valves a little. This will increase burn rate and get through firewood more quickly so it’s about getting a fine balance of just enough air but not too much so that you are rattling through wood fuel and losing heat up the flue. You’re aiming for complete combustion, maximum heat output and good fuel economy. There’s a knack to it and every stove is different. Stocking up a stove at night and shutting down the airflow valves to try and keep a fire smouldering overnight is also a very fast route to blackened stove glass.

All wood types have different burning characteristics and no 2 bulk bags of firewood logs are the same. Even wood of the same species but from different parts of the tree can perform differently. Oak is known to be one of the best firewoods, it has a high calorific value, i.e. has lots of heat energy to give out, but it is very dense. It therefore needs a little more airflow through the firebox of your stove to burn completely. There is generally never going to be one airflow setting on your stove that works for all stove refills. Again, you have to fine-tune the airflow valves for each burning session to get the best results each time.

We do riddle (clean) our logs twice before delivering your firewood, the first when it is cut and split and the second during bagging. This second clean minimises the quantity of dust and scraps that get into the bag. It is still possible that some gets through or is loosened further from the logs during transit and unloading at your property. In our experience any small quantity of smaller material is suspended within the ‘air’ spaces between logs in a bag and doesn’t affect the quantity of logs received. When bags are unloaded by hand, the smaller pieces can drop to the bottom of the bag and begin to look like an alarming quantity. You can still burn this material, use as kindling or as mulch on your garden.

If you do feel the quantity of smaller material is excessive, please give us a call or email us some photos and we can have a look into it.

We aim to meet all of our scheduled delivery appointments for firewood Sheffield where possible. In the event of a snowy or icy weather day, we will make an assessment on the day as to whether to send out firewood delivery vehicles for the day. We may attempt to make contact with you to see what local road conditions are like. We do also have some 4wd vehicles so may be able to get to you in these if our regular delivery vehicles can’t get out. This would require us delivering to you in smaller net bags as opposed to a bulk bag but is an option if you are needing your wood fuel. If it isn’t safe for us to get vehicles out and meet your delivery appointment, we will be in touch with you and redeliver as soon as we can after conditions improve.

You are welcome to collect firewood from our yard Nr Meadowhall, Sheffield, if you wish. You can take as many net bags as you can fit in your car, or if you have a van or trailer, we can load up a bulk bag for you to take away. Please give us a call beforehand at firewood Sheffield just to check that we have bags made up and ready for you to collect.

We also stock:

• Softwood Kindling
• Firelighters
• Compressed Sawdust Heat Logs
• Smokeless Coal and E-Coal (50% olive stone waste)

Please see our products page for details.