Do you store wood near your stove?

laxeylady

In the glossy country magazines you always see stoves with wood stacked up attractively round them, or in nice piles somewhere close. Does anyone actually put their wood round their stove? Hubby has stuck this weeks kindling under ours as it felt a bit damp, but is this safe? Can wood get too hot from the heat from sides or bottom of stove? It looks nice but how practical is it?

welda

Personally, and from a safety point of view, I never store wood in close proximity to stove. I know some stoves have a storage facility, ones I have viewed storage is underneath.

I suppose if you are going to be in room for a while, I reckon will be safe to store close by for drying out purposes. My policy is to have no combustibles close to, or around stove as possible. If I have no dry wood, I use other heating method.

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w50nky

I agree with Welda.

I do place logs and kindling around my stove but Never leave them unattended. I can put my hand beneath my stove and the hearth below it is not even hand hot but would still feel uncomfortable leaving anything too close to the sides whilst unattended. I suppose if you have a large inglenook style fireplace then the distances to your fuel would be safer. A lot of the pictures you see in advertising are just for show I think.

A._Badger

Guilty as charged. I store two racks of wood, one either side of my stove. I've never worried about it. It's not touching and I doubt it's anything like hot enough to catch.

That's just a personal opinion, not a recommendation, though!

flourpower1

agree with welda

ours is in a basket a good distance to the side of the fireplace

savemoney

I store wood near log burner sometimes if I can be bothered it take it out of the basket. I have had a log burner 3 years now and no problems storing it

suki1964

TBH if my stove is belting it out then I feel the hearth getting warm so Im very wary about stacking wood on that

However I do have two baskets to the side of the hearth which I store kindlers and logs

savemoney

I dont let the wood touch the burner off time a log does fall but I dont really leave log burner unattended for long, cant see it causing an real problems tbh

paddy's_mum

I survived a devastating house fire, caused by an electrical wiring fault in the immersion heater. I know to my cost just how fast a little bit of a glow can turn into a life threatening inferno. I don't store anything inflammable within reach of my woodburner.

To me, it's just daft to say 'well, the danger is small and nothing has happened yet'.

Q: Why take the risk? A: For the same reason you don't leave small children unattended in the bath or beside a garden pond or pet an unknown dog or walk alone up a dark alley.

crphillips

It's unlikely to catch fire although i met a guy who's house burned down due to stacking wood in the recess. Insurance didn't pay.

Also met a customer who got me round as his smoke alarms kept going off.......wood was touching the stove, charred and black :-)

It's when you load the fire up, leave the house to go shopping and forget to close the air inlets when the problem starts or a log falls onto the stove.

It's much easier to build a log store and season it properly, safely. Also it's not such a good idea having wood hanging around your house too long......you never know what's inside it.....would be a shame to introduce wood worm to your house.

thomashenry_2

As long as it's not touching the stove, it'll be fine.