Building a Woodshed....Update
Finally finishing a woodshed that actually got started 10-12 years ago. I'm a pro at putting stuff off.🙄
It is all Douglas Fir that was supplied by a neighbor who I did some welding for. The rafters are rough cut 2X6 20' long. The container is 27' long, and the wood area is about 10' wide. The container leaks so the roof goes over the whole thing. I have 12 sheets of 36" X 20' roofing metal that came off a sawmill building in town 25+ years ago.
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Looks very good. I like it. You commented to the only thing I saw and would do, which is to close in the upper portions above the container.
Just curious, why did you put metal mesh (if I am seeing that correctly) on the outer edge/wall?
I would imagine it's so that he has something to stack the wood against that will allow the wood to breathe and dry out. Just a hunch.
It looks really good, Randy!
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Randy, I'm curious about how this is adjoining the other roof. Here it looks like this would be a snow jam. I don't think you get much snow there though.
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If any of y'all boys want to take a walk on the wild side, build the woodshed that I invented. This shed is 12 x 8 feet and is completely enclosed. No ventilation. It works on the principle that water vapor will pass through the walls of non painted or non stained wood. This shed sets in the sun all day, and gets 10 degrees warmer, at 3 pm, than outside temp. I am drying green white oak to 14 percent moisture in 8 months, three times faster than a conventional woodshed. In 8 months, thousands of pounds of water vapor will pass through the walls. Four stacks, 7 1/2 feet long and 7 feet high, the little guy holds a lot of wood.
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KenK.....Mr. P nailed it. It's field fencing to stack the wood against, but to allow maximum ventilation.
Mr. P...The two roofs are about 8" apart. That roof is a wood addition to my metal shop, all of which were there when we bought the place in 1991. It is also a one way shed roof, but runs perpendicular to the wood shed roof.
Allen....Interesting concept for drying wood. It doesn't seem like it would work very well, but it apparently works wonderfully.
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I have a very similar set up Allen. My 10X20' wood shed gets very hot, during any Sun predominant day/mo. I have 5 loads of (already) very dry hard wood stacked in there. One load left from last year.
Lit my very 1st fire, this evening. (Was 34° this AM.)
Pacific Energy "High Efficiency" wood stove, with dual thermostatic controlled blowers. Throws out some heat. Glass front door, to enjoy the ambiance. 🤔😁
Enjoying it, just now. 👍
Love this time of year. 😁
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I posted the story of my non ventilated woodshed on the wood stove forum five years ago. It goes against the grain, as they all go for massive ventilation of the woodshed. And that works great of course. But my woodshed works a lot better.
We get river fog up here 5 nights a week, completely envelops the house, and that is 100 percent moisture. River fog does not contact my wood. We get windy rainstorms a lot here, and no raindrop ever lands on my wood pile.
None of the wood stove guys believes my story and none have tried to copy me. They think I have gone off the deep end.
"...AND THEY SAID I WAS INSANE!!!"
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Thats a different concept for sure. Do you see any mold on the wood? I have a similiar type shed in addition to roofed storage, but my shed has open windows on three sides.
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I get little, if any mold. It remains dry as a bone in my little woodshed.
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