Making furniture involves planing, sawing and shaping timber (mostly hardwood) and this produces a considerable amount of waste in the form of sawdust, woodchip and solid timber offcuts. Whilst I have found a great way to make use of and thereby dispose of the timber off-cuts by burning them in my ‘Wood-Burning Stove’ on cold days throughout the year, I have yet to find an outlet for the sawdust and woodchip.

I probably produce around 3-4 (90l) bags of sawdust a week, so if anyone has a use for this please let me know and you can take it away free of charge, otherwise it will just end up at the dump.

Alternatively, if I could find a small scale briquetting machine that didn’t cost too much I could also turn this into fuel for the ‘Wood Burning Stove’ and save more money on gas!