If you could change your woodshed...

I do not have a concrete floor in mine, so that is what I would add, but it is a very slippery slope.

Since I am a huge proponent of radiant floor heat, I would never pour a concrete slab without adding pex to the floor in case I ever wanted to use the building in some heated capacity in the future. Pex and strofoam insulation to retain that heat is cheap. But hey, if a person has a floor like that and a boiler, add a little insulation, and it is just a minor deal to hook up an extra zone and heat the building. Because radiant heat warms the objects in the room (in this case the wood itself) a person would have what amounts to a dry kiln.

As I said, this is a slippery slope...

 

Great thread!!!! I've often thought about asking this same question

I have two sheds that I repurposed from whatever the previous owner used them for. All I did was raise the roof a few feet and put fencing on the sides to allow air flow but to also keep the wood from falling out the sides. The floor is made of 2x4's which work well but I worry about the day they start rotting through.

I think if I were to build new sheds, I'd build three, each large enough for one heating season allowing me to stay three seasons ahead. I'd also like to have them divided in two so I can keep the hard wood and soft wood separate (do other people keep their wood separated by species or type??). I would also use concrete floors but seal it to help prevent condensation. I think it would be great to have lights (as others suggested), but don't think it's worth the effort of trenching wires since I do most of my firewood chores in the daylight, although this would probably change if I had lights out there

 

Wish I'd room for a shed I had to make a store and squeeze them in around the garden

 

Awesome! How many 8'x 8' bays are there and how many years burning does that give you?

 

Epic shed Dave!

 

I don't have a woodshed, but at the risk of hijacking this thread....

My wife and I went to Old Sturbridge Village the other night. For those not familiar, it's an actual working village depicting life in the 1830's. While Christmas wasn't actually observed back then, as it is today, the village did have a depiction of what Christmas may have been like.

Many of the houses in the village have been updated with central heating, but lots of them are still heated by wood stoves and fireplaces.

Knowing this thread existed, I took a few pics of their woodsheds while we were walking around.





The last is a kiln just outside a potter's shop. They make their pottery all year long, and once a year they fire up the kiln to fire and glaze their wares.

 

At this point, I wouldn't change my woodshed at all, but if I lived in a place where I didn't have access to trees that are pre-seasoned and I had to adopt the 3 year plan and I needed a larger woodshed to store more wood I would simply make it longer.
My shed is built along the fenceline between me and my neighbor's property, it serves as both a privacy fence and a woodshed, and one bay of the shed is also used for a storage area for our garbage cans and recycle stuff and access to our underground cold room storage.
I like a long narrow woodshed (only 2 rows deep), it gives you the easiest access to the wood without any wood getting stuck behind and it offers the best exposure for drying. The moment you empty a bay you can refill it with fresh wood and not worry about burying the wood behind. Also, each of my bays is 8ft wide and holds almost exactly one cord, so keeping track of how many cords of wood I have and use is made very easy.

 

My woodshed isn't done yet either. I ended up using pallets and a big HD truckers tarp that will cover all my wood that will be for future use.

I do have this planned, although not finalized. 8' deep, x 30' long 8' tall 3 bay shed. 4x4 posts for verticals, and pallets floor keep airflow going. Half open slats for sides and back, with a steel roof angled to the back. That should do it for 3 years worth of wood. I'm building it in spring.

Until then I'm just splitting and stacking with the freshly CSS'd wood open to the elements with some sort of top cover for this winter.

 

The reality is that some solar lighting could be a simple solution. I have thought about doing it in my shed for years, but it has just never made the top of the priority list. Neither has building a wood shed yet, but hopefully this spring or summer.


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I was going to add that. My mom bought a solar LED light that would work great for lighting up the wood shed.

It's like this one. It's very bright and motion controlled. Just mount the solar panel anywhere within 15 feet.

 

Mirkwood Jim I have 5 8x8 bins plus 3-4x8 bins for shoulder wood and two bins for kindling. The center area for equipment storage is 8x24. It gives me about 3 years of wood. I also have piles outside drying.

 

This..

You really only need 2 years worth of wood under cover of a shed. It can't hurt to have more wood shed room than you need, but it can be space and cost prohibitive. If you let it season 3 years, seasoning out in the open the first year has been working well for many.

 

Horkn I have only started piling wood outside in the past couple of years. The location of the pole barn doesn't lend itself to other uses for me. I often find myself doing some design/build projects with design being the second thing I do. Start with an idea, start building, then design it.

 

I went from this.


To this. Doesn't hurt my back as much.


Still need to load it up all the way.

 

As others have mentioned, other than size I think a roof high enough so you don't have to bend is the number one feature. Some seriously impressive sheds in this thread hoarders. I am inspired and a little bit jealous

 

I need to have a talk with my wife about a wood shed this spring. I want to build a two bay 10 cord shed. Only place that I can put it and be easily accessible is right across from the kitchen window, blocking any view into the woods. And since a woman's place is in the kitchen, that could be a problem.

 

What I would like, but probably will never get is one of those aluminum car port sheds with only a roof. It would be tall and long enough for my pickup, trailer and splitter. I would want it wide enough for a couple rows of firewood on each side of the truck and trailer with room to spare. It would be open on both ends. I could pull through and park, then unload when convenient.