Tip for drying out your daily supply of logs for your wood burner

[cessna]

Due to this never ending damp weather ,I have resorted to achieving nice dry logs for my fire , by laying a piece of cooking tin foil along the top of some of our radiators and then placing as many logs as I think I will need the next day on top of the tin foil on the top of the radiators. Takes a bit of effort but well worth it.

[woodwizzard]

Are you saying that your dry, seasoned logs from a log store are getting too damp to light a fire with? I thought we had it damp down here in the SW, but you must be swimming🤪

My logs are in an outside log store and have that nice "chink" sound when you knock them together. How are yours getting so wet?

[Unframed Dave]

Personally, I'd have concerns about the additional condensate in my house. 

[Rob_the_Sparky]

Sounds a bit extreme to me, a day or so indoors is only going going to dry the very outer surface.  If the bulk of the log is wet then it will still be wet after a day or two indoors.  Just bring them in the night before should be enough

[Rob_the_Sparky]

Just now, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

If you begin to find black mold around corners of walls then you know where its coming from. I have a big dehumidifier in my hall to dry washing and I can't believe how much water it collects, something like 10 litres a day.

Hmmm, I brought my dehumidifer into the house as an experiment (normally lives in the garage to keep the cars dry - yes I know pampered cars).  It removed very little water so I put it back.  That was after friends of ours had issues with damp as like you found the dehumidifer removed a LOT of water.

 

If you are removing that much water I'd be concerned about where it is all coming from...

[AndyChalmers]

I just light a fire with dry kindling then chuck wet logs in, soon dry out lol.  dry in the middles thats what counts. 

[spandit]

I make sure I have a decent supply stacked up near the fire so they are warm and dry. The really wet ones (that were on the edge of the stack) I tuck down beside the stove (making sure they don't touch it) and they soon dry

[Gav73]

I always have at least 3 days supply in baskets next to the stove, so even when the wood is damp (from the Scottish climate) by the time I go to burn it, it’s as dry as needed. Simples. 

[trigger_andy]

Due to this never ending damp weather ,I have resorted to achieving nice dry logs for my fire , by laying a piece of cooking tin foil along the top of some of our radiators and then placing as many logs as I think I will need the next day on top of the tin foil on the top of the radiators. Takes a bit of effort but well worth it.

Sounds like a really bad idea to me. As others have mentioned damp walls and you’re only drying the outside of the log anyway.

What’s the reason you can’t keep your logs dry outside of the house?

[trigger_andy]

I always have at least 3 days supply in baskets next to the stove, so even when the wood is damp (from the Scottish climate) by the time I go to burn it, it’s as dry as needed. Simples. 

I keep my logs off of the ground in vented 1.25m3 bags covered with tarp (till I build a suitable log store.)

They are bone dry and not remotely damp.