I tried searching but no luck. Normally I use 10' wide, black, 6 mil visqueen folded over so a double layer of black plastic held down with mason string stapled to the sides of the woodstack. The 10' wide strip is then 5' wide which hangs over a nice foot or so on each side of my double wide row of 16" splits. It actually works pretty well and costs about 40 cents per foot of cover. I see the new roofing underlayment is 4 feet wide. White. and really thin but costs about the same per running foot. It would be single layer and thinner than the plastic. Hangover would only be like 4-6" so a little shorter. Does anybody have experience covering firewood with synthetic underlayment? It's kind of like a thin tarp with tyvek glued on. Big box stores sell it. My rows are 50' long, 5' tall, and 32" wide and this top cover will get snow, ice, and wind but no debris since there are no trees.
Works great. I use it for work on roofs all the time. 30+ years as a roofer by trade. Pretty tear and puncture resistant. Comes in 42 & 48" wide rolls. Easier than tarps. I just used the last of a roll and was pleased with the way it worked vs a tarp. You can staple it too. I wouldnt expect to get more than a couple years in full sun exposure. EODDiver uses a lot of it.
Nice. It’s okay to only have 6” or less for side coverage? Seems more likely to catch wind. I’ll have to try Lowes for 48”. HD only had pink 42”.
My stacks are double rowed with 16" splits on a 36" wide pallet. If you have plywood scraps hanging around use them on top (minimizes puddling) and see if it can be draped out so the water drips off instead of running down the face of stack. If i remember ill get some pics of the covered stacks next time im near them.
The stuff i used i bought from Lowes and was around $70/roll 1000 sq/ft, 48" wide. I forget the brand and it was a grayish color.
That sounds great. It was 120$ for a 286' long roll at HD. 42" wide. Lowes will be my next stop. So this stuff is actually waterproof? Tar paper was always called a vapor barrier and I of course want an actual waterproof thing. Puddles are going to happen so....
Pretty sure it is. Ive left it exposed on roofs for extended periods. One of my wood sheds as i type. Ill check my stacks this week as its raining here. Im surprised the other guy hasnt chimed in.
Picked up a 70$ roll of 4’ wide by 250 feet long material from lowes . The gray stuff. Going to try it out.
Yes, I use the underlayment because of its cheap cost and it is easy to deploy over my stacks and roll back up when the weather is nice. Wind will play havoc with it over 20mph even with staples. I use my empty pallets to help hold it in place. Have noticed some seepage in material I deployed over two years old. The stuff isn't the 100% solution, but does a nice job of directing rain off stacks if you have the center of the stack crowned.
One of my stacks with it. Snapped these today. 10" long by 4.5 wide. partial reclaimed sheet of plywood underneath propped so it slopes. Stapled on one end. Uglies on top for weight. Wood is multi year dead white oak felled last Winter. Covered in the Spring and its holding up well. The stack closest to the shed isnt fully covered.
Well guys, it’s on. Worked pretty well. I covered about 30 feet of it with metal because of had to put it somewhere but the rest of that row is bare underlayment. The overhang is about 6-8” on each side. For the front 40’ row I used my old standard visqueen. 6 mil doubled. The last of my stock.
