It is a truly cozier experience to spend a winter evening beside the crackling fire glowing at your backyard fireplace, right? Compared to gas or electric room heaters, a conventional wood fireplace is much less expensive and classy. However, the major challenge, while considering having a fireplace is the availability and storage of firewood. This is the major reason why many want to resort to the more user-friendly gas or electric heaters.

But, in reality, it is easy to get and store firewood to be made use of for this purpose. You need to get a good firewood rack and keep it properly covered. On storing in a bad way, wood will get wet and damp, which will further end up smoldering and smoking while being burnt properly. This will lower the efficiency of your wood stove, ending up in need of more fuel. Damp wood may also be home to insects, rodents, and snake, etc.

In short, you need to keep your firewood stored well to ensure the best outcome from it while sued. Not only can this be used, but well-stored firewood can save a lot of your time and effort too to maintain it and offer the best value for money spent. So, proper stacking of the wood in the firewood rack and usage of a good cover to cover it up adequately are the primary needs.

Covering firewood racks

It is easy to store firewood on the racks to keep it protected from any environmental harm. Using firewood covers of adequate thickness and good material can help season the wood and keep it dry.  While stacking the wood, you should make a proper arrangement of it with a proper split between each. While storing wood, keep the fireplace's proportions, furnace, and stove and split the wood to the right length and size. While arranging, triangular wedges are much easier to stack and can also ensure more surface area to get the wood dried much quicker.

Ensure proper covering to get wood dried thoroughly

As we have seen above, the drier your wood is, the longer it will last while kept stacked, and the better the performance would be while it is burning. So, ensure proper ventilation while through all the sides while keeping the wood stacked on the rack, being covered. There are various types and sizes of firewood rack covers available in the market. Ensure you get a cover that offers adequate airflow by being breathable or having vents on it for air circulation.

There is also an argument that firewood should not be covered and must remain uncovered to get properly dried. However, this is not practical when you store it outdoors as being exposed to various weather conditions as rain, snow, wind, etc. So, when your storage rack is kept outdoors, it is essential to get a good firwood cover to protect it adequately. Use the covers and be sure to use the woods without any hassles when you need them the most.