Storing Seasoned Wood?

Richard_Terry

Hi all.

This is my 1st post here - I've looked around but haven't been able to find the answer to this question...

I've just ordered a multifuel stove. The plan is to burn a mix of wood & anthracite on there. Storing the anthracite won't be a problem, however storing any big amount of wood could be.

I plan to buy fully seasoned wood, however there's nowhere outside my house I could realistically store this. We live in a small terraced house, and putting a wood store in the yard would take most of the space!

We do, however, have a large and mostly dry cellar. Would it be OK keeping seasoned wood down there? It won't just be dumped on the floor, I'll build a timber frame to keep it off the floor, and will stack it neatly, as it would be stacked in a woodstore.

I understand the main reasons for not storing wood in the house can be because of rodents building nests in a woodpile (surely they couldn't do this if it was stacked?), because of bugs living in there (It's a cellar, we already have plenty of spiders down there), and because of possible harmful spores growing (as I'll only be buying fully seasoned wood, this should prevent or at least put off mould growth).

In addition to the above, I won't be buying vast quantities of wood at any one time, so it'll get turned around fairly quickly.

Does anyone have experience of this/recommendations?

Thanks,
Richard

TechTeacher

If your cellar is well ventilated, you should be alright provided the moisture cont5ent of your well seasoned timber is not too high <20%. You will be surpised how much you will get throgh and buying a trailer load rather than a few bags is always going to be cheaper. Try looking at stacking some single thickness against a wall. Or ask your supplier if they could store some for you for a small charge.

mirrorimage0

lol ours at the moment is under a plastic sheeting in the back garden as we have so much of it and our store shed has not turned up as yet but thats another long story.
we have been putting what we need in our side housing beside the garage and its been absolutley fine, you are better of getting a trailer load though rather than bags, we pay around £50 for ours and it lasts a few months but we buy the same amount every three months so although we dont use loads in the so called summer it will stock up for winter