Wood Shed Plans

When I bought a home that had a fireplace I thought it was pretty cool. However, I did not think about where I would get the wood to burn or how to store it so for the first three years in our home the fireplace went unused. During a dinner party a neighbor asked about the fireplace and offered to give me a set of firewood storage shed plans and clue me in on where to get the wood.

The acquiring of the wood was the easy part, there are a lot of folks who sell it from the back of their trucks and run ads in the newspaper or your town’s trading post. Convincing me that I needed to build some kind of storage shed for the wood was much harder to do and in fact, I refused to do it the first year and I ended up with a stack of wet, rotting wood.

So, I broke down and built a little home for my firewood. I dug up the plans my neighbor had given me and took them to the hardware store where I got a quote for the materials. I then took that quote to a lumber yard and they beat the price by 10%!

The shed had three walls and a roof. The floor was actually some cinder clocks over plastic sheathing to keep moisture at bay. As I stacked the wood I carefully placed mouse poisoning deep inside so dogs or other wildlife could not get to it.

I tried to stack the wood as loosely as possible to make sure there was good airflow and that was pretty much it. I got my wood towards the end of the winter and put it in the storage shed to season up a bit in time for the following winter.

I’d recommend that if you have a fireplace and you need a place to store the wood that you consider building a firewood storage shed and that you get a good set of plans to build it. Having a detailed set of blueprint for any wood working project will save you both time and money.

And make sure you price shop. Take your plans to a couple of different lumber yards for quotes and you can save a lot of money. Your firewood will be clean and dry and will burn easily. There is nothing like a beautiful warm fire on a lazy winter’s day!