hi all, I need some ideas on interior wood storage. with the temperature ranging 20-25 degrees from day to day I want a storage system inside that i can stack shoulder wood and the good stuff without it being a big mess. Right now i just use an iron ring holder which doesnt hold enough and during the early and end season is a mixed bag that only I can decifer. So when I get home from work my wife or kids used the oak when its 60 degrees out because “it was on top”. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!
Nice thought. Does help to either stack and prepare but maybe what you need is a wood box? A nice one can still be made with the osb stuff and then if you wish to make a veneer, some cedar planking will do. If you’re concerned about the family struggling with what wood to pick out, you could make separate bins inside the box so that you can give them the benefit of the doubt and explain what to use when it’s that warm out (or cold!). Just an idea, I have my outdoor wood bin, holds around 15 cubic feet. Keeps me flush for weeks. It’s nice to have a large overhang outside the door so this is dry always.
I've used 18 gallon plastic totes great for constraining dangerous and highly flammable punky wood mess
Sounds like your stove is in living place and not basement? If in basement, you wouldn't have to be so nice about it. For the basement stove here, I give up some room in the garage (small car) and stack wood in the fall. Hand carry leach load into basement and put on a multi-position cart; configured in the horizontal position. Only get abut 3' X 3' at a time, but can wheel it back and forth to the stove area when I do light the stove. In your living area would be dictated by how much room is available. Many firewood racks in various sizes/styles are out there. Gotta find something that looks decent but is functional too. Just for heating season....doesn't have to be a permanent fixture.
I keep a rack like this just outside on the deck. The door opens to the room where the wood stove is. If I don't feel like going out for new piece every time it's needed in the stove, then I bring in several using a canvas tote bag.
I have a plastic tote 22" x 19" x 14" of bigger dry stuff, a milk crate for smaller dry stuff, and a wooden rack that holds 21" x 22" of wood, for victory/overnight loads. Get a tote and fill it with whatever wood you want them to burn, and no problems.
I also have a 4' diameter iron ring holder, but last year I added a 4'x4" square holder made from pallet slats. I basically made two squares, instead of hinges I wrapped the squares together at the top with camo paracord. The bottom of the squares are adjustable, but I keep them about a foot apart. The ring holder has larger pieces of red oak that are seasoned, but will benefit from a week in the 80F+ degree den before burning. The square holder has smaller pieces of hickory and tulip poplar. During the day my wife pulls from one area and I "manage the stacks" on a nightly basis. I also keep 1/3 of the cord in the attached garage. This keeps me from hiking through the snow. Since we don't have snow on the ground all winter, I can pick and choose when I reload the indoor racks.
I built this for my internal storage out of 3/4" black pipe with flanges and a 2" slab of fir I milled. I can hold almost a rick and the wifey is happy because of the aesthetics. I just put a small area rug underneath that I can pull out and shake off every once in awhile. We can get almost a month out of a full rack of pine, and I'll probably get a month and change when I start dipping into my oak. It's not as clean as a box but you can separate and easily identify your soft and hard woods. I'm into it about $300 with all of the finish stuff which isn't bad considering the prices of Chinese wood racks. If you don't have a mill or access to slabs you could try an old door for the top. Good luck!
Iron fish tank stands make good wood holders, the bigger the better. You can put a length of bluestone stair tread on the top to dress it up, and a tray underneath to catch the wood dirt. Check Craigslist for the stands, unfortunately most come with aquariums as well.
Welcome to the forum shapi My only thought is, do you really need indoor storage? If so, you would want something that you can close up and that would keep any and all bugs and critters in check. This is why we do not store wood inside. We get it off the porch and it goes right into the stove. Hence, no bug or flying insect problem and no ants.
I got a couple of large wooden shipping boxes from work years ago. I use one for kindling and the other for the regular firewood. I have them in my garage during the winter.
These 2 boxes are close to the insert. The small one was made from paneling taken off of walls in one of the bedrooms. Both are many years old. Notice the fine craftsmanship
One of my boys and I just loaded wood into the garage. The stack has Locust, Ash, Maple, Cherry, Hickory and a piece or two of Oak. I’ll be glad when I get through my old stacks, my new stacks are cut more uniform. In the garage: In the House:
