Should you make an open firewood?

Having a beautiful storage for firewood is the dream of every person living in the countryside, and of every gardener. Fortunately, the Internet is replete with beautiful ideas for firewoods - open and closed, with and without a roof, attached to the house and detached.

Before you is a beautiful, but not very successful example of a firewood (see photo below):

Why is such a wood log good?

• it is located near the house, which means that you do not have to go far for firewood;
• it does not have a roof, but there is a cover (on the half on the right) made of leatherette;
• he's damn handsome.

But you want to know its main drawback, due to which no smart person will ever make such a woodcutter?

This structure is too close to a wooden house, and this is fraught with the fact that one day you may overlook and buy firewood with a bark beetle. The villagers often slip such firewood, and because of the bark beetle your wooden house will end in 1 season.

What is there to do?

It is much more practical to put a free-standing firewood: this is better in terms of fire safety, and the bark beetle is farther from the house.

Of the obvious disadvantages of a freestanding structure, there are two important ones:

• with such a design, the very first slanting rain or snow with the wind will instantly wet your firewood and make it unusable;
• to go far to them.

That is why, in our opinion, the best firewood will be a freestanding one, and at the same time protected from all sides by swing doors. Ideally, make a high and narrow log log so that the swinging door does not interfere with the passage and does not take up space on the site.

Your opinion?

• Which woodshed option is better?
• is there a chance to "catch" the bark beetle?
• how do you store firewood?