Hi
I am new to stove ownership and stumbled on your site and forum, so I hope that I can get a clear answer (if there is one to be had) from experts in wood. I am looking to buy a crate of either ash or oak kiln dried firewood. A few suppliers deliver in a crate (wood, open-sided, pallet type base). I really want to store the wood in my attached garage - convenience combined with my natural lazy-itis. I don’t have an outdoor log store.
One business told me that the wood must be emptied from the pallet and stacked in an outdoor log store, within three days of delivery, to avoid mould-inducing humidity in the garage (in January???) undermining the effectiveness of the kiln drying process.
Another refused to comment - worried about legal liability?
The third one said (music to my ears) that the logs would be fine in the garage, kept in the crate, provided that (a) there was at least a six-inch air gap around the crate; and (b) the logs were all used up this season. At the rate my stove is getting through kiln-dried hardwood logs, there may well be another log purchase before warmth returns in the Spring. They told me that any logs still left come Spring would need to be moved outside for the summer (a bit like pelargoniums??). Of course, I want to believe the third company.
May I ask what your opinions are of the advice I’ve received, please? While acknowledging that lazy-itis plays a part here, so does being a solo arthritic female of a certain age, with no outside storage structures, so that would be more effort and more expense.
Many thanks for your input.
