To buy firewood in Brisbane and specifically on the Northside of Brisbane, you would think would be a relatively easy’ish task.

You have the money, you have a fireplace, you have the want, the need and urgency as it’s starting to cool down.

But alas, it was harder than I thought to track down a consistent, convenient, cost effective and free delivery of firewood to our North Brisbane home.

For a start, if you can get through the endless list of linked pages and the odd Gumtree/Yellow Pages page that has firewood available but not in your area, and many of the the buy firewood on the Northside of Brisbane sites of companies that aren’t on the Brisbane Northside, let alone deliver firewood there, you are off to a good start.

Also many are Tree Doctors and have firewood as a sideline for their business and I found that a lot of these didn’t have firewood pricing at all on their sites.

Changing washers on a few taps around the house looked like an easy enough job, especially coming from an electrical background and being a self sufficient Kiwi that enjoys the simple life, I thought it would be easy, I have to tell you the actual job was the easy part, but the age of our house and taps was the defining time taking point in the whole process of fixing the leaks.

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