Kiln-dried firewood is the speciality of ours at Dublin Logs. All of the hardwood of ours goes by way of a a kiln drying process to make certain it’s probably the most affordable and efficient gas when it reaches the customers of ours. But what’s kiln drying, and what exactly are the benefits of its?
Similar to the way building timber is going to need being dried to stay away from warping, firewood must be dried to reduce the moisture content of its and succeed burn off better. While not being dried or’ seasoned’, a great deal of the power produced by burning up the wood is invested evaporating warm water and also results in less effective heat output.
One of the more popular techniques of drying wood is to merely air dry. This consists of drying out the wood in an open air environment until the moisture content of its has dropped. This could have a huge amount of time, so the total amount of water left in the logs won’t ever be around wood that’s been kiln dried.
Alternatively, wood could be dried out in a kiln. This particular procedure is much more costly but allows a really specific temperature and moisture being reached, causing an ideal setting to supply quality that is high, lower moisture, simple to efficient and light firewood.
Fire wood which has entered the kiln of ours on-site is going to spend a short length of time of the oven as environment, and also when removed, have a moisture content of under twenty %. Our enthusiastic approach to sustainability is confirmed in the assembly of a biomass driven boiler to drive the kiln, using the wood chipping out of the felling operation. This method makes our firewood carbon neutral.
Due to the more efficiency with kiln dry logs, fires will burn off lots hotter for longer. What this means is a less expensive energy bill and also less wood storage required to hold the very same intensity of fire in case you utilized non-kiln-dried wood. It will take around three non dried logs to produce the very same heat as simply one kiln-dried log.
An extra advantage of our kiln dried firewood will be the clean burn. Any remaining sap and water are eliminated in the kiln, leading to less soot or maybe tar increase in the fireplace of yours. This is additionally a profit for chefs cooking over wood as there’ll be much less unpleasant byproducts which may have a detriment on the woodfired meals of yours.