Mold? Disease? Where do you draw the line on what you'll bring in your home?

The house is a 1932 with a old coal room, 16' long 9' wide and 10' high that I bring nothing but clean wood into. As of now there is about 5 cords in there. Just to be sure I mist the stack with a permethrin based spray when it is brought in just to be sure nothing makes it into the house. All the other stuff gets stacked outside and covered. I like to wait until the weather is bad before I use the coal room wood. Any wood with mold never gets in the house.

 

I think all of you who have issues with moldy wood and the various fungi on the wood, and even buggy wood, that you should all ship it here to me where I can dispose of it properly and keep all of those nasties out of your homes. These pieces of wood will be disposed of in a timely manor in a receptacle that will incinerate all mold and fungi, even bugs that sometimes wonder onto the wood.

I will also dispose of all slash and bark, or basically firewood dirt, but please send those in a separate container.

There is no charge for this service, but donations will be accepted!

Don't forget to put on your hazmat suits when handling this wood for your protection!

 

There are a few kinds of mold that can be a health threat, but there are thousands of kinds of mold. Most molds don't present any threat at all. I don't worry at all about mold on wood.

 

I'm with Scotty and papadave, a little mold on the wood isn't going to hurt anything. I've noticed certain types of wood tend to be more prone to it than others. Sugar maple is one that seemed to get a lot of fine surface mold on it while it was in the stacks but seemed to eventually dry out and flake off when I started moving it to burn. Unless the wood itself is spongy it's all good in my book!

 

Hackberry and Honey Locust are the two that seem to be the worst in this area.