That is very kind. If the situation comes up I'll take you up on that. This is why l like it here, folks are willing to help each other out without really knowing one another. As they say in "the way life should be"
Two thumbs up for this one, life is busy nothing nonchalant about that. The whole part of this is my goal to keep my loved ones cold and decisively never pay for heat again.
I don't understand the problem, you covered the wood just as the first rains of the fall arrived like you were supposed to do. This is the PNW, the constant drizzle/rain isn't a storm. It is what happens for the next 9 months or so until summer starts again. I too covered up all of my stacks on Sunday before the rain came, and the game started. Just the top though. Wrapping them fully like you did is a mistake. Fold the tarps so that they top cover and hang down about a foot over the edge and then either load some weight on top or use strings to hold the tarp down for the long winter. We even had a small fire in the stove on Sunday afternoon to bring the house from 65 to 75. Yes, it was almost 70 degrees outside but that is pretty much irrelevant.
Wow. I meant to say out of the cold. I had just woken up from a weird night as my daughter was up from about 1 to 5
Theres no real problem. Im just adapting to my living space that's all. It got dramatically wet the first year living here and I was still in the process of learning what to do in dealing with wet weather and wood. Likely to roll them up and then put some stickers through the stacks to hold the rolled tarps up. What I didnt want to happen was get this wood all wet and not have a plan in action. As you can see no wood shed is here. That subject was broached but hardly feasible when I have wood in place but its mismatched. Either way by Thursday this week, rain will be gone and high 60's are back for a litte bit. What I didn't want to do was have wood get wet now and then I possibly move it into a bin I have for the wood burning season and find mold on it. Just my observations have lead to this decision thus far. Again only temporarily. I still appreciate your inputs. Not like I am not still learning here.
And by the by, There's this one. Probably the only stack that has been stacked to the best of my abilities and the best way to stack it as it is top covered. Weighted, and open. Why? Its the only stack that I can actually put this rubber mat over it without water pooling inside due to big divots in the pile . All my piles are only so wide. I could try to cover some more with this stuff. Its just not as flexible as you might think like epdm.
No shame in propping up your tarp or other cover with something so it sheds water better. I used a few old planter pots this year and they're working swimmingly.
I covered some of mine last week as its supposed to be rainy off and on for a week or so, as the weather gets cooler and more cloudy it takes much longer for it to dry after being rained on.
