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Do you know how much is in a cord of firewood? According to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ (VDACS) Office of Product and Industry Standards, all bulk deliveries of firewood for home heating are required to be measured in cords, or fractions or multiples of a cord. Therefore, if you purchase firewood to heat your home, you need to know the size of a cord to be sure you are receiving ail the firewood you ordered and paid for.
Here is the answer: a cord is 128 cubic feet of firewood. That amounts to a pile of wood stacked in compact rows that measures 4 feet wide, 4 feet high and 8 feet long (4x4x8 = 128). The pile could also measured feet wide,' 4 feet high and 16 feet long (2 x 4 x 16 = 128) or any other dimensions where the width times the height times the length equals 128 cubic feet.
Firewood sellers know exactly how much wood makes up a cord and also know that most consumers lack this basic information. Legitimate sellers will deliver a full cord. Con artists, on the other hand, will take advantage of uninformed purchasers. Here are some of the ways they cheat buyers. Unscrupulous sellers may unload the wood after dark when the buyer cannot accurately assess the size of the load, and then demand immediate cash payment. Or they might unload when the residents are not at home, and come back after dark for pay
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