what is the best wood our solid fuel burner to heat a room?

Wood needs to be well seasoned before it is burnt in a stove, irrespective if you have a woodburning stove or a multi fuel stove. Different woods take varying amounts of time to season but, as a guide before being used in a stove, wood should be cut, split and stacked under cover with the sides open to the air for at least a year. It is then good practice to have it in the log basket, inside the house, for a few days before it is actually used in your wood burning stove.

If you have your wood delivered 'ready to burn', stress to your supplier that the wood must be well seasoned, as it is being burnt in a stove and, as a way of checking, most woods tend to get splits across the grain on the ends of the log when it is dry.

Conifer wood tends to be rather resinous and is best used as kindling. Old skip wood / builders timber is ideal as kindling.

Whatever you can source to burn unless you are buying it in as logs. It needs to be as dry as possible and the moisture under 20%.

We use a mixture of larger and smaller logs and it can be a mix of anything. We have been given a large amount of softwood as well and we mix that in with harder log woods.

To get warmth you have to hot burn as much as possible and not be afraid to use plenty of wood, ticking it over is counter productive as the resin can damage and block the chimney liner.

We are currently trying to get a year ahead on our wood to make sure it is well seasoned.

Nothing. No matter what type of wood you use you'll need sacks and sacks of the stuff to try

and keep the room warm.

Oak

Surely it must be the cheapest you can find.