Building My Firewood Shed
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If you look carefully, you'll see that even heavy rain or snow only penetrates a piece of wood a fraction of an inch. Since you've already been letting it dry out on your porch before you burn it, I don't think the shed will make any difference in the amount you burn for the same amount of heat.
But... relief from the annoyance of having to struggle with tarps and snow and etc. as others have said, is huge, not to mention no longer having to move it twice before you burn it.
As for your opening, depends entirely on your prevailing winds in winter whether snow will blow into it to any degree. You could also, if you find you need to, make some sort of roll-up tarp door you can let down when major snow is expected and deflect the worst of it.
Oldman47
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Nicely done, it looks good. I have to ask why you cut into the fascia on each end to allow the support beams to show.
Webby, I like the look of the front of your shed. I probably would not have spent the effort of those angled cutoffs but they do add to the look.
Webby, I like the look of the front of your shed. I probably would not have spent the effort of those angled cutoffs but they do add to the look.
I have to look at it everyday, I wanted it to look nice.
I am thinking of the same thing for heavy snow. I just have to figure an inexpensive way to do the tarps.
To be honest, it's a wood shed, I wasn't real concerned with all of it's appearance. I'm more interested in it being practical.
If it were me, what I'd do is just get several inexpensive tarps, screw the tops into the shed using big washers and tie them up with some rope. When it looks like snow, just unroll them and let them fly loose in the wind. They won't keep the interior of the shed totally snow-free, but they'll do most of the job. You don't, I don't think, want to anchor them to the ground because, A, it's not necessary, and B, the pressure on them from a good windstorm might rip them off. Or you could, I guess, figure out a way to anchor them but poke a bunch of holes in them so the wind goes through, but I'd try just leaving them loose first.
I'm assuming the opening is facing the prevailing winter wind direction. If it's perpendicular, that's harder and you may have to rethink a little bit, maybe put some shutters up on that side as a windbreak or something.
Or just the hell with it. You'll still be much, much better off than you were.
My little 1800-something farmhouse has an attached enclosed but well ventilated wood shed at the back of the house that holds about 3 cords stuffed to the gills, and it's a fantastic boon.
crizpynutz
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I like this woodshed design. lol
I like this woodshed design. lol
Yes. Well worth it.
I have two sheds. One is a lean to off my garage and holds 5.5 cord.
Second is the same style as yours and is fully open front and rear. Can average 10' of snow here. The whole point of a shed is maintinence free storage. Nothing to mess around with, load the wood in and unload when required.
P.S Nice shed BTW.
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