What's size log store do I need to buy?

[MinimalistMommi]

I don't know which one to get, we have a teeny tiny courtyard garden. Should I get a 500 litre one or a 800 litre one or a 1000 litre one? I've been looking at them here: www.charmedwood.co.uk/log-stores.php
They look beautifully made!

Can't help I'm afraid, but watching as I have been thinking of one of these but also have a tiny courtyard garden. I don't really understand them though - surely the open front means that the logs get wet??

just I don't have a clue?! The woodburning centre told me I need one though LOL

build one yourself out of pallets those ones wont hold enough logs for a week let alone the winter. I used 4 pallets and joined them together with some wood across the top covered in roofing felt. cheaper and holds enough for season

We just use a smallish shed. Much easier and cheaper. Or get a tool store and use that. Bit prettier than pallets, although we have one like that too after a tree came down in the garden and we had no room in the shed.

They have an open front because the most important thing appparantly with a log store is that the wind gets to the logs to help dry them out. Getting a bit wet from rain won't matter as that surface wetness drys off quickly. Which is why the gappy ones are recommended over the more solid ones.

Anyway I was just looking at getting one for our new stove. Its impossible really to know. How many times a week will you use your stove, how big is the stove, etc. can you source new log deliveries mid winter or not? Well it be seasoned wood or do you need two stores? One for stuff which is now seasoned and the other for damper stuff?

I couldn't find an answer and decided to go for a 1.9m2 store as this would take two crates of logs as delivered by my local log man.

Then dh said I had to clear out one of the outbuildings and use that instead as he thinks our garden looks like the Dingles yard as it is. I'm worried that they won't dry out being enclosed but will try it and see.

Looks like I had best get the 1000 litre one and see how I get on with that. It's is a 5kw Clearview pioneer and is being fitted early autumn. We will be using it late afternoon/early afternoon daily once it gets cold. We can get more wood during winter but I would rather not worry about it.

Half will be one year old, half will be two year old wood.

Get the largest one you can. Running out of wood is really irritating!
I always plan to be better organised, but it never happens.

if you are getting deliveries they come in very big bags - you can buy in smaller quantities but it costs a lot more. Take a trip to your local wood merchant to see the size of the bag, that will help you get an idea of what is involved.

special I saw the man deliver the other day in our street! he emptied a skip outside the house

Get the biggest one you can. If you are buying wood then you want to be able to buy in bulk (cheaper). Personally, I would go for open front but solid sides and back - yes, the logs need to "breathe" but best kept out of the sort of rain we've had recently.

ah well, in that case you know how big the bag is!!

I think we will go for the the one titled "Most popular wooden log store" on that site Rockdoctor it has solid sides and back and has completely open front.

Our wooden burner fitter just came and it was very exciting! Eeeeekk!

Second getting the biggest store you can; we're able to dry and store our wood in the garage, and have got through the winter so far using wood from nature strips, so have a rotation system for the driest wood. Obviously you won't have this problem, as the wood you have delivered wil be dry and seasoned.

Get the biggest log store you can physically fit in the space you are Willing to sacrifice.
We have a 4.5kw wood burner and Go through a a 100 litre dumpy bag of wood in about a week of evenings. I recon I need 2 of our 3 wood sheds full at start of winter. The 3rd is used for seasoning logs for the following winter. We try not to buy logs in winter as quality and dryness can bev patchy. If I buy I buy in summer and give it a month or two extra seasoning/ drying.

uni I'm hoping to buy wood this week, so that wood should be ok should it? It's from a reputable source, he has been supplying wood to the area for years and years. So if I get a 1000 litre store that should do approx ten weeks then. I hope that will be ok. Can't decide now whether to get the 1000 litre store which has two compartment side by side or whether to get two compact ones which are 500 litres each...

Buying from a word of mouth recommendation is a good way to go. Over your first winter you will work out how fast you go through wood. In your second winter you may use a bit less as you get more efficient with your stove and more used to it.
For us, the big breakthrough was realiseing that our quite small firebox runs hotter with multiple small logs than just a few large ones at a time.

What ever log store you can fit will work and you will work out how long a bought load lasts. Have fun and stay warm.

Totally different scenario, as I live in Canada and wood is my main source of heat, but I was tickled to read of 500l and 1000l wood stores. I'd never thought to calculate it until now, but our woodshed volume equates to ~ 20,000l and we struggle to make that last the winter

LOL lazydog we've got the woodburner more for the cosy feel! we have central heating to use during the day.

We've had good wood from Certainly Wood the last couple of winters. Kiln dried so not cheap but burns much better than other stuff we tried. DH made our wood store out of pallets.

Celtic what sort of price do you pay?

Something in the £300s? They usually offer discounts in August. I will check with DH. I think we get a pallet load and it lasts all winter in our 4kw stove unless it's super cold. I had done recommenda friends vouchers, if I can find one you are welcome to it but I've just moved house! I will miss my stove here.

We buy in the spring normally for the next winter. We've left it massively late this year as we've had the builders in, but I'll get on it now! We have a loose load delivered and cart it through to the woodshed out back. Normally a tipper truck just about does us through the winter.

Lazy I assum we're in the same ball park as we use two old stables and an outside store. Also our wood comes in the form of our forest so no delivery bag size to worry about. But also no chance off topping up in the mid winter so we have to be organised.
We're in Mid Sweden and it's our cooker and heating hence the need for so much.