Pics of New Woodshed Built From Hearth.com Ideas

I just started burning last year, and quickly became hooked! I don't use wood as my sole source of heat, but rather about 50% of the time. Either way, after installing an insert I quickly realized I needed a dry place to store a seasons worth of wood, as my lot is very wooded and my wife would be displeased with me filling up the garage .

I built this shed from ideas mainly from this forum. It took much longer than I would have liked as I am nowhere near a carpenter, but it's almost done!

It's 6x10x8 feet tall in the center, and by approximate volume will hold just shy of 3 cord (which is about all I need per season). I elevated the base on treated 4x4's with footers sunk 48", and used treated lumber on the frame. For siding, I scavenged some 75+ year old fir planks from a barn being demolished and ripped batons from scrap cedar. I also was able to scrounge 11 square of cedar shake shingles, and finally found something to use them on. For a ridge-cap, I used 3 oz copper deck flashing and wrapped a cedar board that I had cut to my pitch. Hopefully the copper prevents the cedar from growing tons of moss/mold. I just have to button up a few things a stain it and it's finished! I was going to powerwash the siding and stain it uniform, but my wife loves the aging on the boards so clearcoat it is!

Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

hockeypuck said:

Wow on the cedar roof...rich people's roof

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Cheap people's roof when material was free

STIHLY DAN said:

Doesn't one want air flow in a wood shed? Looks nice tho.

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Agreed, but it's not really for drying but rather storage. I did gap the boards on the floor 1.5" and with the shed being raised, get really good flow from bottom to top. I also left the front open (obviously , and where the roof joists meet the walls on front and back is completely open. It gets pretty good flow. My main concern was keeping stuff dry!