Wood Storage inside the house

[DKCDKC]

I am lucky to have a big two-car garage attached to the house. I load my pickup at the woodpile and pull it into the garage. The garage is cold and no bugs seem to awake. Plus I can go out there in my slippers to get wood for the stove. And, as a bonus, if we get snow my 4WD truck is already loaded and ready to go the mile out to the highway. Come spring... Please come... I just take what's left on the truck back to the pile.

Only disadvantage is difficulty in using the truck to haul during heating season.

 

[davedj1]

Growing up our wood stove was in the cellar and that is where 5-6 cords of wood got stacked each fall. Never had any problems out of the ordinary with bugs or spiders. The wood was seasoned prior to tossing it in the basement. Maybe the fact that the stove was down there to keep things dry all winter was the reason, I dunno. I wouldn't hesitate to do it if it was more convenient.

 

[Clint S]

store mine inside too. Bring it in in the fall, run the dehumidifier and blow a fan on it for a week or so and that's it. 15 face cords a year. Yea, I might get a few spiders here or there, but it sure beats bringing it in in the winter and once the stove is going it dries it out real good.

 

[Don87]

I store some of mine inside, but only if it's been split beforehand, I want to know what's inside because I too have found bugs inside a log that has no marks on the outside. I only store about 1/2 cord at most in my basement, the rest is outside awaiting delivery:laughing:

 

[94BULLITT]

I keep a about a 1/2 cord of firewood in the basement, the stove is in the basement. If something has had carpenter ants or some kind of bugs in it I leave it outside by the door in a small pile and bring it in and throw it directly in the stove. I only do that when it is cold and the bugs aren't moving.

 

[rodsauder]

Thanks everyone for all the input. I think I am far enough north that termites are not a problem. I think that my main wood storage will be outside and as I am puttering around all the time I can bring in a weeks supply at a time. I learned lots from all of you and will keep all the ideas in mind. Thanks.

 

[PAGUY]

Similar to the gentleman who uses his truck to store wood in the garage you could use a yard utility cart filled with wood and brought in with the tractor. When it empties you just hook it up and go out to the wood pile and refill during nice weather. BIL kept his filled with stove coal that he fed to a heatrola kept running all winter. It was a two car garage and he got by with a little more than a ton for the winter months.

 

[Marveltone]

I also live far north of the dreaded termite zone. We have a wood box in the cellar that we dump our wood in from an outside window. The vast majority of our firewood is stored outside and brought in when the box is nearly empty. Bugs? We live next to a big swamp! Bugs are a part of life. The few that may make it in with the wood are not even worth noticing. Besides, we like spiders... they eat the other bugs!

In all seriousness, the furnace and the wood are both in the basement, so no mess makes its way upstairs.

Joe

 

[crazyal]

I store a cord in my basement, done so for years now. The first year I cut and split the firewood and then stack it outside with a sheet of Tyvek over it. The second year it gets moved into the wood shed. As I need it I usually bring it in about a cord at a time. At the end of the season anything left in the woodshed gets moved into the basement for next year. In the spring I move the remains in and the spray it with Otho Home Defense just in case there's anything that made it through winter. I usually have 3 cords ready for each year but only burn about 2.

 

[muddstopper]

I only bring in a wks worth of wood at a time. Store it in the basement next to the wood stove. Its been several years since this has happen, but we woke up one morning to find a million little baby praying mantis all over the walls in the house. My best guess is that mantis eggs must of been in the firewood and the warmth of the house caused them to hatch out. We chased them with the vaccum cleaner for wks. Needless to say, my wife pitched a fit. That was back in the day, different house, when we had a wood stove in the living room.

Wife has bought some of those electronic pest control rigs that you just plug into the wall outlet. We have noticed a considerable decline in spiders, crickets and other bugs since she installed them. I was sweeping up around the wood pile in the basement yesterday and at the time I did take notice of the fact I never saw one bug of any kind in the basement. I guess those electronic rigs work because in the past there was always a cricket or spider somewheres.