[Closed] Wood Storeists - Show me

Keep the greenhouse as a woodstore
http://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/wood-magazine-solar-kiln/

The frame is like paper so it's coming down but I like the idea of putting a clear perspex roof on to encourage a bit of solar drying.

We have a similar greenhouse. Its the glass which gives it its rigidity.

Here's a pic link to how I built my big wood shed. You could easily do something similar with just a single bay. I would extend the overhangs at each end to give a little more weather protection.

It wasn't so much of an issue at the east end because the prevailing wind is from the west. But I think it looks better with the overhang.

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Use a string to ensure the front row of posts are in line. Measure back from that lone to set the rear row of posts. Set a level roof rail at the front. Then another a bit lower at the back to allow the water to run off. Ensuring that all the posts are vertical (easier with temporary bracing) Place a 4x2 across the roof rails. trace a line where they meet then cut to fit. Nail to the posts and roof rail. You can add the triangular 90 degree braces, which are all the same length to add rigidity.

Mine sits on free draining ground so I didn't bother with guttering or a water butt.

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splendid, that's the sort of thing.
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Mine (not really but I wish it was) 😀

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I have two wood stores (for now 😉 )

First is made from 4 old elm beams stuck into holes in the grown and set in a concrete mix. Purlins and onduline/coraline bitumen profiled roofing. Open on four sides. At the back and on one side I have a row of pallets acting as a retaining wall. On the open two sides I build a log wall as I fill.

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The second one I erected nearer the house. 4" square post spikes driven into the ground, 4" posts, purlins and roofing as before, but this time I clad with "now you see it now you dont" horizontal featheredge board on either side of the posts to retain the wood and allow plenty of air flow.

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loving the solar kilns

I feel inadequate and not for the first time;

Am constructing a second one that will be deeper at the end of the garden. Do i get points for including my bike?

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Not got space in the garden to have a large store in one area so have to make do with single row storage wherever poss.
New decking was an ideal opportunity 🙂
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I just made a woodstore no photos yet and looking at these photos, I suspect I may have over built it .........

I do also have some glass bricks from a part of the house I knocked down and wondered about a another small wood shed using glass bricks to dry stuff but was worried about if it could catch fire; sound likely?

good inspiration here - i need to build one but finishing inside the house and building my man shed is a priority! have lots of fencing to come down so i'm intending to recycle what i can from that to make the sides/back

thats just the wood for the chimnea right sandwicheater ?

You swine trail rat! Thought I'd got away without being lambasted.

It's what you do with it that counts, 😉

Stoner's second one is what I was thinking about aiming for.

On a scale poine, Here's what I've already built.
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Even through this mild winter we've just had, this proved entirely insufficient. Double it and then some more, plus a couple of bags of coal would be my future projection, hence the additional store.

thats about a months burning if using it for more than decor.

Was using a couple of crates formerly used for shipping flagstones, as seen in the first pic, plus some wood piled up using old pallets alongside the shed. Then someone gave me some 2*4 and some tongue and groove flooring planks, so I built this by eye

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this has a serious gale blowing through it all year round , makes for damp unseasoned logs into seasoned dry logs very quickly. those 2 infront are sappy as **** and just wont split/cut for love not money , need to get someone with a chainsaw - the bush man just clogs up. - i think they are from conifers, we were gifted them years ago.

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Spot of recycling before they all get torn down to make way for the kitchen - check the crazy pave. ...but that sees us through the winter using it almost every night

OK, I've made my plans now. Looks a lot like Stoners second one. Actually, it's almost identical to Stoner's second one. 😉
6' by 6' by 7' high on one side, down to 6'6" on the other. Plastic corrigated roof.

I've costed it all up on Wickes, comes to about £230 with delivery. All treated wood. Does that sound like a reasonable price or do you reckon I could get better from a local timber yard?

Ah, answered my own question. I can get everything delivered apart from the roof from a local timber merchants for £145

Chop chop then man. We will expect a fully documented build thread with cup cakes.

Will do.
Bits arrive Thursday, will have to dismantle greenhouse and move wood out between now and then. And I've got some holes to make in the paving slabs.

It was all going so well.
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Cleared out the greenhouse, started marking the post locations, wife came home. Too big apparently. We are currently debating but it's down to 6' by 4' already. Anticipate further size reductions.

Mines just stacked against the fence. It's pretty dry in Cambridge, so no need for a cover.

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Here's a little shed I built from an old pallet, some half round rails from a fence I took down, and assorted other scrap wood. Held enough for about a month I guess

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Wood shed and main shed have both been stained now, car washed, and sold, quadbike and trailer are a saviour in the winter!

This is our main wood store, under the old railway bridge about 50 yds from the house, this has both blocked up wood seasoning, and more recently felled timber unsplit. The wet held there last winter though & meant it didn't dry much at all, new plans afoot for this winter.

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One thing this thread has done is reaffirm my belief that I need white forks for my scandal frame!

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Cleared out the greenhouse, started marking the post locations, wife came home. Too big apparently. We are currently debating but it's down to 6' by 4' already. Anticipate further size reductions

You could make it bigger and clad half the roof and walls with clear Perspex sheets to make a green house as a bi product.

Or just bloody man up and tell her to get back to cooking...

Mines just stacked against the fence. It's pretty dry in Cambridge, so no need for a cover.

Wood dries just fine uncovered, but what to do when you get home, it's been pissing down all day, and your woods soaking? Do you keep some stacked by the fire?

Wood dries just fine uncovered, but what to do when you get home, it's been pissing down all day, and your woods soaking? Do you keep some stacked by the fire?

Switch on the CH. We don't have a wood burning stove. I just have a wood pile to fit in with STW.

Your wife is complaining about the size of your wood?
Your proposed erection too big?
There's hope for us all, yet.
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😉 Once she'd seen how much space was available she felt it would be better used as, errrm, space. She couldn't provide the exact detail on what she would be using this 'space' for but it's clearly not for something I want to do like store wood.

When I gently pointed out her penchant for throwing 40 logs a night into the stove to maintain a steady 35 degrees C in the living room demanded a large wood store, I was clearly very wrong indeed about something.