Wood Storage inside the house

[jerrybob]

Don't do it.......bugs will be a problem. Up here.....I try to store firewood about 25ft. from any structure I care about.:2cents:

 

[MAN IN BLACK]

Well, for my part, I've been storing wood in the cold room in the basement for the past 20 years and never had an issue with it.
I use around 12 face cords per year hard wood only, the room holds about 16 cords when full....some has been sitting there for a few years !
I let it seasoned outside for a year before bringing it inside in the fall.

 

[vtsnowedin]

I do it all the time. I usually have a cord or better stacked against the wall opposite the wood furnace door. I'm too far north to worry about termites and carpenter ants need moisture so if any come in, in a stick they soon find there way out and back to their queen. The furnace drys out the wood and the moisture cuts down on running the humidifier upstairs when the fires are burning. The rest of the wood is stacked under the porch/deck on the other side of the same concrete basement wall. Yes it brings in a lot of dirt, sawdust, and bark chips that need sweeping up regularly but when it's thirty below and the middle of the night I want to be able to fill up the furnace wearing my slippers instead of suiting up and fighting my way through 100 feet of fresh snow drifts. Keep as much of the dirt and mess in the basement as you can though or Momma will set you straight.

 

[hr3]

I do it all the time. I usually have a cord or better stacked against the wall opposite the wood furnace door. I'm too far north to worry about termites and carpenter ants need moisture so if any come in, in a stick they soon find there way out and back to their queen. The furnace drys out the wood and the moisture cuts down on running the humidifier upstairs when the fires are burning. The rest of the wood is stacked under the porch/deck on the other side of the same concrete basement wall. Yes it brings in a lot of dirt, sawdust, and bark chips that need sweeping up regularly but when it's thirty below and the middle of the night I want to be able to fill up the furnace wearing my slippers instead of suiting up and fighting my way through 100 feet of fresh snow drifts. Keep as much of the dirt and mess in the basement as you can though or Momma will set you straight.

Ditto what he says I've done it for years too with no problems,, I wait till after the first hard frost then 5 cords goes in the cellar ...

 

[bxbuggy]

I stored a full season of wood in my basement one year. No mice or ants, got spiders though. Darn things spun webs between every floor joist. Very few ever came upstairs into the main living quarters. Now all my wood stays outside. I toss about a weeks worth in at a time now. My woodstove is in the basement.

 

[Chris from Ontario]

Well, for my part, I've been storing wood in the cold room in the basement for the past 20 years and never had an issue with it.
I use around 12 face cords per year hard wood only, the room holds about 16 cords when full....some has been sitting there for a few years !
I let it seasoned outside for a year before bringing it inside in the fall.

Same here, for 23 years. Fill up the basement Labour Day weekend then run the humidifier for a couple of months. This firewood has been drying outside in the woodshed for a year and I can get about five full cords inside. I'll burn a couple of rows before the snow gets too deep so I replenish what was burned at the beginning of the heating season and that will do me the rest of the winter. Some small spiders come in with the load but it gives the cats something to play with and doesn't bother me.
Much better than bringing in a bunch of freezing wood and having to burn even more wood to bring it up to room temperature. It even acts as a good heat sink for when the house is empty all day and the fire goes out.

 

[sam5570]

Ok, by the sounds of things , firewood storage in the house is a bad idea. I will not do it , as I have learned experience is the best teacher. It just does not have to be my experience. So, I will instead, build a wood shed which will face south, be approx 100' from the wood chute into the basement. I will make it big enough to store approx 3 bush cords and then I will just dump in enough wood as needed on a day to day basis. Does everyone agree that is the better way?

I have had wood heat for 30 years and my ppnion this the best way bring in as needed. glad to see your wood shed 100' from house should have no problem this way.

 

[dave1949]

I store about one cord of wood in my garage every year. It's been split and well dried long before I bring it in. Anything I split with ants in it goes to the fire pit pile. By the time I bring it in, a lot of the bark is falling off larger rounds and the bugs are gone because there is no shelter or moisture.

I've no experience with termites, but I understand they can do a lot of damage before you realize they are there. Carpenter ants can usually be tracked to their nest and gotten rid of. I have tracked them from my house out 100' across the yard to old stumps, etc. Catch them on a busy day and they are easy to track indoors or out because they follow a scent trail. Finding their nest is the best way to eliminate them.

 

[radioman]

My dad been doing it since mid seventies. He puts wood int he cellar and its kinda damp. There are spiders, and they are always doing sweeps and killing spiders. The wood they put in cellar is already seasoned, dry and good stuff. They dont touch the wood they put in cellar unless the weather goes bad like rain, snow, and darkness. They get wood from outside they pile on deck when they can. Having a large supply in basement always has been a nice comfort for us esp. when is 10 degrees and snowing .Spiders is dealable.
I am not certain of your plan for a chute, but most of the time we found that wooden chutes is just a pain in butt unless it was short and steep. We just put a large piece of plywood down and use that as a landing pad from wood we throw in the cellar door on floor.

 

[radioman]

My dad been doing it since mid seventies. He puts wood int he cellar and its kinda damp. There are spiders, and they are always doing sweeps and killing spiders. The wood they put in cellar is already seasoned, dry and good stuff. They dont touch the wood they put in cellar unless the weather goes bad like rain, snow, and darkness. They get wood from outside they pile on deck when they can. Having a large supply in basement always has been a nice comfort for us esp. when is 10 degrees and snowing .Spiders is dealable.
I am not certain of your plan for a chute, but most of the time we found that wooden chutes is just a pain in butt unless it was short and steep. We just put a large piece of plywood down and use that as a landing pad from wood we throw in the cellar door on floor.