Drying wood indoors - heated floor thoughts?

[ScottLewis]

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.

 

[mpaul]

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.

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?

 

[ScottLewis]

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.

 

[mpaul]

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.

You’ve proven that it works for you in your area. Most of us here are in a more northern climate where we are not subjected to the temperatures you have in the Carolina’s.

 

[Nordicbynature]

You’ve proven that it works for you in your area. Most of us here are in a more northern climate where we are not subjected to the temperatures you have in the Carolina’s.

I agree. For us here in Sweden the firewood dries best in spring, when the weather is dry and windy, but cold. Just store it outside and it will dry well.
After midsommar, when the weather gets warm and moist, the wood doesn't dry much.

We try to have the wood ready before Easter.

In warm and moist climate the technology / wood shed described is worth trying. I would add some possible to open ventilation temporarily. Best of both worlds.

 

[EbS-P]

Once you get above 40C (104 F) look at how much further apart the RH and how low it is!! If you get to 50 C things will dry fast.

 

[brenndatomu]

Nobody on this forum will build a shed like mine because y'all think it won't work.

Still do
Well, I suppose it would dry the wood eventually, but not in a useful time frame, not in northern Ohio