My woodshed runs on heat not ventilation. On the 80 degree day the woodshed is 90 degrees. Water vapor rises from the firewood and goes through the wooden walls.
Drying wood indoors - heated floor thoughts?
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Feeling the Heat
If the wood used to build the shed is untreated and not painted, how do you protect it from the elements? Doesn’t the shed eventually rot?
The shed is 16 inches off the ground. Termites don't like to build tunnels that high. The subfloor is pressure treated 2x12s and PT 3/4 plywood. The floor is thus bug-proof.
The walls are rough sawn white pine 1x12s, straight from the sawmill. The three-foot roof overhangs on all 4 sides keep most all of the rain and sunshine off of the wood. There are dozens of old tobacco barns near my house, they were built over 100 years ago and they are doing fine, un painted untreated rough sawn white pine.
My woodshed goes against the prevailing wisdom, which is that ventilation is essential to wood drying. Nobody on this forum will build a shed like mine because y'all think it won't work.
In 1633 Galileo published a book that said that the earth orbited around the sun, rather than vice versa, and nobody believed him, either.
The walls are rough sawn white pine 1x12s, straight from the sawmill. The three-foot roof overhangs on all 4 sides keep most all of the rain and sunshine off of the wood. There are dozens of old tobacco barns near my house, they were built over 100 years ago and they are doing fine, un painted untreated rough sawn white pine.
My woodshed goes against the prevailing wisdom, which is that ventilation is essential to wood drying. Nobody on this forum will build a shed like mine because y'all think it won't work.
In 1633 Galileo published a book that said that the earth orbited around the sun, rather than vice versa, and nobody believed him, either.
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