Where to get dry firewood?

[Hoser]

We have the luxury of an operating fireplace this time. As we would like to supplement the central heating (dreaming) is there dry firewood available in the area for a reasonable price?

[John1]

There is a garden/landscape company next to Julio's restaurant. Their firewood is kept under tarpaulins and you can fill your car boot up for about 15euros.

[logicbob]

On the way into CVO you can buy a barrow load for 10 euro's.

[jeremy]

Large supplier can be found on the main (newer) road to Silves - you can see the sign from the road - Fill
your boot for a reasonable amount

[Bruce Wallis]

Large supplier can be found on the main (newer) road to Silves - you can see the sign from the road - Fill
your boot for a reasonable amount

That is by far the most expensive way of buying firewood!!
There is a place on the left on the main road just before you get to Rocha Brava, you can buy up from 1/4 a metric tonne at the rate of about 80 euros a tonne. ( they deliver and stack)
This less than half the price you'll pay at the roadside.

[jeremy]

Bruce - This is not by the roadside (I agree that is expensive & often damp), but on an industrial estate just out of Silves - J

[steve]

80 euros a tonne? Are you sure? This seems incredibly cheap.

[Hoser]

Do you think I can burn a tonne of firewood in two months? It' s got to be two cold months which I hope will not be this coming new year.

[pato]

Do you think I can burn a tonne of firewood in two months? It' s got to be two cold months which I hope will not be this coming new year.

Get up at six and visit the boardwalk.

[steve]

I light my fire at about 4 pm each day in the winter and perhaps in the morning on the few days when it is very cold. I reckon to burn between one and a half and two tonnes over the winter.

[pato]

I light my fire at about 4 pm each day in the winter and perhaps in the morning on the few days when it is very cold. I reckon to burn between one and a half and two tonnes over the winter.

Wouldn't even miss it.

[John1964]

80 euros a tonne? Are you sure? This seems incredibly cheap.

In England I pay £65 per tonne for softwood logs and £75 per tonne for hardwood logs so 80 euros per tonne seems comparable.

[Geoff]

There is a place on the left on the main road just before you get to Rocha Brava, you can buy up from 1/4 a metric tonne at the rate of about 80 euros a tonne. ( they deliver and stack)

There is a garden/landscape company next to Julio's restaurant. Their firewood is kept under tarpaulins and you can fill your car boot up for about 15euros.

Is this the same place?....just wondering what a 1/4 metric tonne looks like....usual places have a barrow load for 10€....nice and dry last year at a place on the left, driving into CVO, but a couple of hundred yards before the (non-operational) traffic lights.

[John1964]

Do you think I can burn a tonne of firewood in two months? It' s got to be two cold months which I hope will not be this coming new year.

Wood is very heavy! If you light your fire for say 6 to 8 hours each day you will use the best part of 2 tonnes in a month,especially if it is an open fire where you can't control the rate of burn as you can in a wood burning stove.

[John1964]

There is a place on the left on the main road just before you get to Rocha Brava, you can buy up from 1/4 a metric tonne at the rate of about 80 euros a tonne. ( they deliver and stack)

There is a garden/landscape company next to Julio's restaurant. Their firewood is kept under tarpaulins and you can fill your car boot up for about 15euros.

Is this the same place?....just wondering what a 1/4 metric tonne looks like....usual places have a barrow load for 10€....nice and dry last year at a place on the left, driving into CVO, but a couple of hundred yards before the (non-operational) traffic lights.

You know the large white bags of sand etc that get craned off lorries for building work? One of those completely full is about 1 tonne of wood.