6mm hardwood pellets for biomass boilers and pellet stoves. £700 per tonne including VAT and UK mainland delivery — £583.33 ex VAT.
Hardwood vs softwood heating pellets
Most bulk heating pellets on the UK market are softwood — pine and spruce, largely because sawmill residue from construction timber is abundant and cheap. Hardwood pellets are a different proposition.
Hardwood is denser, so a hardwood pellet carries more mass and therefore more energy per unit volume. In practice that means a hopper lasts longer between refills and you burn through fewer pellets for the same heat output. Hardwood also tends to produce a lower ash volume when it is clean, bark-free material like ours, which means less frequent ash-pan emptying.
The trade-off is price. Softwood heating pellets are cheaper per tonne. If your only metric is pence per kWh, softwood usually wins. Hardwood makes sense where refill frequency, ash handling or pellet consistency matter more than headline cost — and for anyone already buying hardwood pellets for another purpose who wants a single product across the site.
Check your appliance first
This matters. Not every pellet appliance is specified to run hardwood. Some boilers and stoves are designed around softwood ash characteristics and burn profiles, and running hardwood outside the manufacturer’s stated fuel specification can affect performance and may affect your warranty.
Before ordering a tonne, check your appliance manual for the accepted fuel specification — pellet diameter, ash content and material type. If it specifies ENplus A1 softwood only, do not switch without speaking to your installer.
Specification
- Diameter: 6mm
- Material: 100% virgin hardwood, predominantly oak and beech
- Moisture: below 10%
- Additives: none — no bark, binders or accelerants
- Packaging: 15kg sealed bags, approximately 1 tonne per pallet
Storage
Store under cover, off the ground, in a dry space. Pellets that absorb moisture swell, crumble and will jam an auger feed. Bagged pellets stored properly keep indefinitely — a tonne bought in summer will burn just as well the following winter.
A note on certification
In England, wood fuel sold for use in domestic premises must be certified under the Air Quality (Domestic Solid Fuels Standards) (England) Regulations 2020 — the “Ready to Burn” scheme. Requirements differ in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you are buying for domestic heating, please contact us to confirm the current certification status of the batch before ordering.