Firewood Storage Shed Plans

When I bought a home that had a fireplace I thoughtThe shed had three walls and a roof. The floor was
it was pretty cool. However, I did not think aboutactually some cinder clocks over plastic sheathing to
where I would get the wood to burn or how tokeep moisture at bay. As I stacked the wood I
store it so for the first three years in our home thecarefully placed mouse poisoning deep inside so dogs
fireplace went unused. During a dinner party aor other wildlife could not get to it.
neighbor asked about the fireplace and offered toI tried to stack the wood as loosely as possible to
give me a set of firewood storage shed plans andmake 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, therethe winter and put it in the storage shed to season
are a lot of folks who sell it from the back of theirup a bit in time for the following winter.
trucks and run ads in the newspaper or yourI’d recommend that if you have a fireplace and
town’s trading post. Convincing me that Iyou need a place to store the wood that you
needed to build some kind of storage shed for theconsider building a firewood storage shed and that
wood was much harder to do and in fact, I refusedyou get a good set of plans to build it. Having a
to do it the first year and I ended up with a stack ofdetailed 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 myAnd make sure you price shop. Take your plans to a
firewood. I dug up the plans my neighbor had givencouple of different lumber yards for quotes and you
me and took them to the hardware store where Ican save a lot of money. Your firewood will be clean
got a quote for the materials. I then took that quoteand 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!