Wood Shed Plans

I purchase a home that had a beautiful field stone fireplace in the living room, which I thought was very cool. The problem was that I did not think getting the wood or even where to store it, so the fireplace did not get used that first winter.  One night when we had a few friends over for dinner and one of them asked me why I was not using the fireplace. I told him I didn’t have any dry wood and did not know where to get any. He then offered me a set of firewood storage shed plans to store the wood in and even told me where to get the wood.

Getting the wood was the easy part; all I had to do was look in the classifieds of the local newspaper. There are lots of people who sell firewood and will deliver it right to your own backyard with their trucks. You can also find people who sell wood in your town’s trading post or even on bulletin boards at your favorite grocery stores. The hard part was convincing me to use the firewood storage shed plans and build a wood shed. I actually refused to do it the first year and ended up trying to have a nice fire with the wood from a wet and rotting stack of firewood.

Well, next spring I dug out the firewood storage shed plans that my friend had given me and started to build a nice dry home for my firewood. First thing I did was take the material list that came with the plans to the hardware store and got a quote for the materials. Once I got that quote I then took the list to a local lumber yard and they beat that price by more than 10%; boy did I feel good after that one.

The firewood storage shed plans called for three walls and a roof and the floor was built from cinder blocks over plastic sheathing placed on the ground to keep the moisture away from my wood. While I was stacking the wood in my new shed I placed mouse poison deep inside where no dogs or other wildlife would be able to get at it. I also stacked the wood as loosely as I could to ensure that there was good air flow throughout the woodpile. I actually purchased my wood in late winter, before I build my shed, doing that would ensure that my firewood would be well seasoned for the following winter.

I highly recommend that if you have a fireplace or wood stove in your home, get a quality set of firewood storage shed plans, and build a wood shed to store and dry your wood. Having a good set of firewood storage shed plans with a detailed material list will help you save both time and money. Make sure that you shop around for the best price on your materials, take you list to several different lumber yards for a quote. After using your firewood storage shed plans to build your shed your wood will be clean and dry and so much easier to burn. There is nothing more relaxing as a beautiful warm fire on a cold winter evening.