| When I bought a home that had a fireplace I thought | | | | The shed had three walls and a roof. The floor was |
| it was pretty cool. However, I did not think about | | | | actually some cinder clocks over plastic sheathing to |
| where I would get the wood to burn or how to | | | | keep moisture at bay. As I stacked the wood I |
| store it so for the first three years in our home the | | | | carefully placed mouse poisoning deep inside so dogs |
| fireplace went unused. During a dinner party a | | | | or other wildlife could not get to it. |
| neighbor asked about the fireplace and offered to | | | | I tried to stack the wood as loosely as possible to |
| give me a set of firewood storage shed plans and | | | | make sure there was good airflow and that was |
| clue me in on where to get the wood. | | | | pretty much it. I got my wood towards the end of |
| The acquiring of the wood was the easy part, there | | | | the winter and put it in the storage shed to season |
| are a lot of folks who sell it from the back of their | | | | up a bit in time for the following winter. |
| trucks and run ads in the newspaper or your | | | | I’d recommend that if you have a fireplace and |
| town’s trading post. Convincing me that I | | | | you need a place to store the wood that you |
| needed to build some kind of storage shed for the | | | | consider building a firewood storage shed and that |
| wood was much harder to do and in fact, I refused | | | | you get a good set of plans to build it. Having a |
| to do it the first year and I ended up with a stack of | | | | detailed set of blueprint for any wood working |
| wet, rotting wood. | | | | project will save you both time and money. |
| So, I broke down and built a little home for my | | | | And make sure you price shop. Take your plans to a |
| firewood. I dug up the plans my neighbor had given | | | | couple of different lumber yards for quotes and you |
| me and took them to the hardware store where I | | | | can save a lot of money. Your firewood will be clean |
| got a quote for the materials. I then took that quote | | | | and dry and will burn easily. There is nothing like a |
| to a lumber yard and they beat the price by 10%! | | | | beautiful warm fire on a lazy winter’s day! |