Why choose Firewood Express?
FIREWOOD EXPRESS ARE A FAMILY RUN BUSINESS PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY FIREWOOD THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE UK
WARMTH FROM OUR FAMILY, TO YOURS…
WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW WHO MANUFACTURE OUR OWN FIREWOOD!
Firewood Express are one of the very few Nationwide firewood suppliers who cut, dry & pack all of our our firewood in-house. We carry out our processing using all manner of funky machinery and vehicles from our production facility in Angus, Scotland.
This ensures we have complete control of the quality of your firewood.
We have a range of highly driven individuals on our workforce. These include the Captain of a local Rugby Team and ex members of the Armed Forces, Lumberjacks and Law Enforcement Officers.
Our team are especially chosen for their hard work ethic & attention to detail and each have their own unique specialities which when pulled together result in some great quality firewood!
When knitted all together the above helps set us apart from others and results in the top quality firewood our customers have come to expect – as can be evidenced in our 2k + TrustPilot reviews!
FIREWOOD EXPRESS PROVIDE AS STANDARD...
Low Firewood Moisture Content
We are members of the READY TO BURN Firewood scheme who regularly test & monitor our output to ensure we are meeting (and often exceeding) Government standards & regulations.
Sustainable and environmentally sensitive raw firewood procurement
We have a strict firewood procurement policy. We utilise predominantly UK forestry production from within a short distance of our bulk firewood processing plant. All supplies must have a forestry commission felling license. We do import a boat load from Scandinavia or Baltic States, once per year. It is grown to strict European environmental standards and is imported by boat to our local port (Montrose). The boat involved normally loads up with spruce destined for paper making on the return load.
Budget logs available in the summer months
In the summer months, we always have a promotion on Semi-Seasoned firewood for DIY log drying. This promotion allows you, the customer to buy firewood at the lowest price of the year, whilst also keeping our firewood production plant busy. We recommend larch for this option as it can reduce its moisture with good storage to below 20%. We process firewood for sale all year round.
Softwood Firewood log Specialists
Unusually for a firewood supplier, we specialise in, and support the use of, softwoods for firewood. We specifically recommend larch, and to a lesser extent, Scots Pine. We do this because the best “bang for buck” or best value firewood is larch. It is cheaper to procure, very easy to process and to kiln dry, so we are able to supply it with a large discount over hardwood. However, there is also a shortage of hardwood in the UK, hence the reason huge amounts are being imported from Eastern Europe (these are the neatly stacked wooden crates you see), so we see supplying softwood as utilising UK production more completely.
Nationwide Deliveries
Deliveries are carried out by our contractor, Freightroute. They utilise both hub and spoke and point to point distribution systems to ensure low cost and low environmental impact. All trunk vehicles are very young and are fitted with the latest Euro Cat 6 low emissions engines. Our delivery vehicles also make collections so aiming to be full in both directions.
Farm History
Firewood Express UK is a trading name of the family farming business of Gowanbank Farms Ltd. The family are involved in farming the fertile arable land bounded to the South by the beautiful Angus coast including Carnoustie and Arbroath and to the North by the Angus Glens.
The farm has been in the family for over 100 years. They were originally involved in traditional mixed farming, this was taken forward to the present day by current retired partners Duncan & Kay Henderson.
The current farming generation are the Pattullo family of Mike & Cara (Duncan & Kay’s daughter) with their daughters Emma & Louise.
They are involved in a variety of speciality crops, from malting barley for whisky and beer production, to table potatoes, daffodils and even gladioli.
Their flower production is so important now that they are involved in packing and delivering direct to major supermarket chains. Some of their daffodil bulbs travel across the Atlantic to the USA.
