MagazínHow to store fire wood

Heating with wood, whether in the boiler or in the fireplace, not even today, nothing unusual. Therefore, we have tips on how to store wood - read on.

Heating with wood, whether in the boiler or in the fireplace, not even today, nothing unusual. Therefore, we have tips on how to store wood - read on.
 
For firewood moisture level is important. It should be about ten to twenty percent when heating is most effective with him. Many retailers have thus prepared wood for sale. For you it is important to know how to store fire wood, to maintaining the properties.

 

Beware of closed places

It certainly is not ideal because it is important that the wood had plenty of contact with air. As poor storage solutions therefore appears therefore:
  • Garage with cellar
  • Garden House
Hair is a mistake when using only fresh wood, which must first be dried thoroughly. There is even a risk that the moisture from individual logs moves to the house, in particular in walls.

How to store fire wood right?

For proper storage timber it is necessary to have an air shelter. If you build it or put, it is good to know that the state should at the windward side of the house. Ideally, then where also shines a few hours the sun's rays.

Of course we should not forget that it is an ideal store already chopped logs. Not only that among them better air circulation, but we are immediately ready for heating alone. Here again, recall that the more air flows, better and faster and better wood dries. At the same time, so no room for mildew.

Also important is the proper way to store wood. Suitably, when the lower layer is at least 20 cm above the ground. You eliminate the risk of moisture from the ground. If you are using logs with bark, it recommends placing them so that they bark down. Correct shed for wood should also eliminate both penetration of water through the roof classically and should have side walls which prevent wetting during rainy weather due to crosswind.


How long wood store?

It is also a very important question. When it comes to fresh wood that was recently felled, it is necessary to reckon with the fact that their ideal characteristics of a store on the basis of such gains in about two years. It will already have one optimum humidity in the range of 10 to 20 percent. If you are using already purchased enough dry wood that is sufficiently dried, it can be stored in essentially any length of time. Moreover, it is immediately ready for use - being thrown into the fire.