Short Pieces – Blue Gum – (Bulk Bag 20kg) (For Small Fireplaces)

Short Pieces is short firewood for a small fireplace: seasoned blue gum cut 5 to 20cm, 20kg to the bag, for compact closed-combustion units, apartment hearths and chimineas. It's the same bloekom as our standard bag, cut short so nothing hangs over the grate, and The Firewood Company delivers it from Parow across Cape Town, the Winelands and the West Coast.

Short Pieces at a glance

• Quick facts: 20kg bag · pieces 5 to 20cm · seasoned blue gum (bloekom) · covered by our Dry Guarantee
• Wood: blue gum, seasoned, sourced in the Western Cape; part of our fireplace wood range
• Best for: small fireplaces, compact closed-combustion units, apartment hearths, chimineas
• Not for: a fireplace that takes full-length logs, a Weber
• Lights and burns: lights readily; stacks neatly in a small firebox
• Delivery: one flat fee per drop for your area, from R200; carried in and stacked within 50 m of where the truck offloads

Best for / not for

• Full-size fireplace? The standard blue gum wood bag is the better buy, or the firewood combo for a winter's worth.
• Want identical compressed logs? Eco logs: 12 to a 10kg pack, 20cm each.
• Stack it in our fireplace wood rack, the Tall Rectangular Floor Display (500mm wide × 1,000mm high × 250mm deep): pieces of 20cm or less sit inside its 250mm depth.

How to light it

Put a firelighter under a handful of kindling, a few short pieces over it with gaps for air, and let it catch. In a closed-combustion unit, use untreated kindling: Kindling / Starters (Premium).

Short Pieces: common questions

How long are the short firewood pieces?

5 to 20cm, cut to fit a small firebox, in a 20kg bag.

What firewood fits a small fireplace?

Wood cut short enough to lie flat in the firebox. Short Pieces is the same seasoned bloekom as our standard bag, cut 5 to 20cm, for apartment hearths, chimineas and compact closed-combustion units.

Will short firewood fit my closed-combustion stove?

The pieces are 5 to 20cm long; check your firebox takes a 20cm piece. Blue Gum is one of the two woods we recommend for a closed unit.

Short firewood or eco logs for a small stove?

Short Pieces for a natural wood fire. Eco logs (heat logs) if you want 12 identical compressed logs, 20cm each.

Stocking up for winter? Build my order for me works out how many bags your fireplace needs, and our delivery page lists the fee for your area. The Firewood Company, Parow, Cape Town: firewood delivered since 2001, with 4.9 stars from 700+ Google reviews.