Build a canopy for the firewood

What you need:

• 4 ground sockets for square timbers 80 x 80 mm
• 2 square timbers 80 x 80 mm, 1800 mm long
• 2 square timbers 80 x 80 mm, 1600 mm long
• 2 square timbers 80 x 80 mm, 2600 mm long
• Wood glaze for outdoors
• Flat brush
• 1 blockboard 2600 x 800 x 22 mm
• 1 roll of roofing felt
• knife
• hammer
• Nails 130 mm long
• Nails 80 mm long
• Roofing nails
• Folding rule
• Phillips screws 5 x 70 mm
• Phillips screwdriver

Keep your firewood dry with a canopy

With wet wood it is almost impossible for you to light your fireplace or stove. This is why you absolutely have to build a roof for your firewood so that the dry stored wood continues to give you a cozy warmth in your room. A canopy is very easy to build.

1. Measure an area of ​​2400 x 700 mm at the place where you want to stack your firewood use a hammer to hit the ground knock-in sleeves in the inside corners of the measured area Floor. At a fixed one
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   Underground from stone or asphalt, use sleeves to screw on.
2. Place the square pieces of wood 1600 x 80 x 80 mm in the two front sleeves and in the back Sleeves the square timbers 1800 x 80 x 80 mm and fasten all square timbers to the Pods. The different lengths of the squared timbers are important so that you have a sloping slope towards the front. This means that your wood cannot get wet from behind by running rainwater.
3. Using the hammer, nail the long squared timber in the middle of one long and one short squared timber. Use the long nails for this.
4. To brush Now cover the entire construction with the wood glaze for the outside area so that the squared timber does not weather and rot. You have to repeat the coating every year.


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Protect the roof of the canopy with roofing felt

1. Paint the blockboard that will be used as a roof for your roofing, also complete with the wood glaze for the outside area.
2. Place the board in the middle of the timber construction and nail it to the timber with the 80 mm long nails.
3. Cut a 2800 mm long piece of roofing felt from the roll with the knife, place this piece on the roof, fold the protruding edges of the roofing felt around the edges of the board and attach the tar paper from below Roofing nails. This weatherproof roof protects your firewood from getting wet from rain or snow.

The roof is ready. You can now stack your firewood underneath without it getting wet.