If you are store your firewood on the ground outside, you can store firewood in piles, by piling one log or split logs on top of each other, over a plastic canvas to keep moisture from the ground or water to come up to the wood.
If you are storing the wood over a cement floor indoors, you can also store it in piles or in stacking the logs standing up.
I would still recommend a canvas on the floor, just because wood can be messy, and this will catch any dirty and bark from the wood and not mess up your garage or wood storage area.
Whatever you do to store your firewood, make sure to keep water away from it, so the wood will continue to dry.
The driest the finest the wood will become and will burn the best and the hottest.
If you are piling whole logs, before they are split, make sure not to stack them too nigh, no more than a three feet high, for safety.
Also, make sure that as you begin using the logs, that you start taking wood from the top to the bottom, and not from the sides, to make sure logs wont slide down and be a hazard to both you or young children in the area.
If you don't have a wood shed, and you are storing your wood outside, in the open air, you want to cover it with a tarp to keep rain and moisture out of the top of the wood.
We do not recommend stacking wood next to your house because rodents, spiders, and other critters, love to make their homes in that environment, and have a tendency to move on into the home.
The most important thing you can do is to keep moisture from your firewood.
And if you need tips to split your firewood logs, you might be interested in reading our article Chopping and Splitting Logs for Firewood the Easy Way.
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