How to Store Firewood Indoors
Firewood is an affordable way to keep your home warm during those cold nights in winter. When you store your firewood outdoors, though, unpredictable weather can leave your supply wet or frozen. This renders it unfit to burn in your fireplace. Storing it indoors may be a hassle, but it almost guarantees that your firewood will be dry and ready to burn when you need it. You must store it properly for the benefits of having it indoors to outweigh the inconvenience. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Choose a location where you can store the firewood right next to a sturdy wall. The space you need for your pile will depend on how much wood you use during the winter months. If you use a lot of wood, you need a larger storage area.
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Lay down wooden pallets. Use only enough wooden pallets to stretch from one side of your woodpile to the next. Set a sheet of plywood on top of the pallets and nail it down so that it holds them all together in one sturdy piece (there is no need to do this if your woodpile only requires a single pallet).
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Anchor a wooden stake to the pallets at one side of the area you designate for your woodpile with "L" brackets. Keep about 3 inches of space between the wall and the stake. Place an identical stake at the other side of the designated pile area.
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Measure the length of one of the average sized pieces of wood in your pile. Anchor down another stake parallel to the first, but further from the wall. Set it about an inch less than a log's length from the first.
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Anchor down the fourth and final stake of the frame. Place it parallel from the second wooden stake at a distance of about an inch less than an average log's length. Your stakes should now form a rectangular frame (your pallets may protrude further than the wooden stakes, though).
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Stack the wood logs starting at the corners. Move into the middle as you stack so that the center never rises above the edges. Keep at least an inch of space between the wall and the wood in order to protect your wall.
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Hook bungee cords from one side of the frame to the other. This will help keep the wood from sliding forward and falling from the pile. Stack your logs so that there is as little space between each log as possible to ensure that your stack is less likely to collapse.
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Tips & Warnings
Wear gloves to protect your hands from sap and splinters as you stack your wood.
References
- Photo Credit firewood image by Marcin Janiec from Fotolia.com
