How should we store our Kiln-dried logs? What’s the best way of storing firewood?

Introduction

When you’ve purchased high-quality firewood, you will want to ensure that you’re keeping it dry and well-ventilated.

In this article, we will provide you with some of our top tips on how to store your kiln-dried firewood correctly.

This is so that you can achieve the best performance from your logs as much as possible.

Buy quality

It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about shoes or cars; it’s essential to seek out the best quality item that you can purchase.

In terms of firewood and logs, this means ensuring you obtain high-quality firewood that is ready to burn.

Our firewood undergoes stringent quality control measures, which means no batch ever gets delivered unless it’s of high quality and has been checked by our moisture metres.

A moisture meter will be placed in the wood to provide an accurate reading of the logs’ moisture content.

If our wood is not dry enough, it gets popped back into the kiln, where we dry it for even longer.

Invest in a good-quality wood store.

The first step is to have a well-constructed wood store built.

Many homeowners create their own wood stores, and there are numerous YouTube videos of people building their own wood stores, which you may find helpful for obtaining ideas when building your own wood store at home.

It’s essential to ensure that the rainwater does not drip onto the front of the logs or leak anywhere within the building.

It’s also necessary to think about airflow and raising the logs well off the floor.

If you’re building your log store yourself, consider how to prevent rain, such as driving rain and rain during storms, from entering the wood store.

You want the wood store to be as dry as possible, and you want it to rise off the floor to avoid water absorption.

Ideally, you want the wood store to be south-facing and to catch as much natural light as possible.

Even on the coldest of days, in the middle of winter, a lot of natural light can still help to keep the logs nice and dry when stored in a well-built wood store.

Consider airflow and build a large wooden store. The reason is that you don’t want to cram your logs into the wood store because you need to stack the logs correctly.

What you want instead is for you to crisscross the logs and stack them so that a lovely, gentle breeze flows through the wood store all the time.

This allows for good ventilation, which is very important when storing logs outside.

The reason is that even if you have built or bought a flawlessly well-made wooden store, the damp air can still seep into the wooden store due to the high humidity in the air in Britain during the winter.

Therefore, by crisscrossing the logs and allowing for ventilation, you enable the wood to dry naturally over time by allowing good air flow.

The direct sunlight will also help with this.

Keep your logs off the grass or damp surface.

What many people do is make the mistake of stacking logs against a fence and throwing a tarpaulin over the logs.

What happens then, if the logs are stacked on the grass, is that the logs will absorb a lot of water, which then causes them to be too wet and you cannot burn them, and it will also mean that the logs will start to rot.

It’s not usual in these circumstances for the logs to start growing fungi as well in the U.K.

This is definitely not what you want; you want good dry logs, so do make sure that when storing logs, they are kept off the floor.

Rotate your logs from time to time

It’s essential to rotate your logs from time to time.

What can happen is that your logs, if they’re not stacked correctly, can start to get wet.

Therefore, part of the logs kept in the log store, for example, might fall over and begin to get damp. To prevent this, rotate the logs, use criss-cross patterns to stack the logs, and keep them in a dry place.

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