Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store

Is the Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store worth buying?

The Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store is worth buying at £79.99 if you have a small garden and a log burner that runs most evenings, because 913 litres of covered timber storage for under £80 is hard to beat. It is a shed-style store rather than an open rack, so the stack is hidden from the house and the felt roof does the work a fabric cover normally does. Buy it when you want timber and a roof without paying CHARLES BENTLEY money, and look elsewhere if the very cheapest litres are the goal.

The 4.0 average from 279 owners is a good score rather than a great one, and it is an honest measure of what arrives: a sound wooden frame with slatted sides that let wind-driven rain reach the outer layer of logs. Nothing else has to be bought to put it up, and the raised floor protects the bottom of the stack the way a cover protects the top.

How much wood does the Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store hold?

It holds about 913 litres, worked out from 116 cm x 64 cm x 123 cm, which is just over a cubic metre of stacked logs. The floor area of 7,424 cm2 matches that 116 x 64 cm footprint exactly, so the base is a full rectangle and every centimetre of it stacks. Nothing is lost to a tapered or slatted-through floor.

At £79.99 that comes to 8.8p a litre, under the 11.4p of the £89.99 VIVOHOME 6ft and less than half the 18.5p the £135.99 CHARLES BENTLEY asks. In a burner used most evenings, 913 litres is roughly a third to a half of a winter's wood, so plan on a mid-season delivery rather than one fill in autumn.

What do you get with the Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store?

You get one flat-packed wooden store measuring 116 cm wide, 64 cm deep and 123 cm tall, with a felt roof, a raised slatted floor and a 116 cm wide wooden door across the front. The body is waterproof stained fir in grey, in a modern style, so it reads as a small shed against a fence. At 3 kg as it arrives, one person can slide the parts into position before starting.

Assembly is required and the build is quick, so an afternoon is enough to have it standing. Nothing else needs ordering with it: the felt roof sheds the rain, the slatted sides keep air moving through the stack, and the raised floor keeps the lowest row off wet paving.

What are the drawbacks of the Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store?

The slatted sides are the weak point in an exposed position, because wind-driven rain reaches the outer layer of logs even with the felt roof overhead. A store with a fitted front cover keeps that face dry, and this one does not have one.

It also holds 913 litres, which is a third to a half of a winter for a hard-working burner, and it has to be assembled before the first log goes in. Its 4.0 from 279 owners sits behind the 4.3 that 3,739 buyers give the VIVOHOME 6ft, so the £10 you save buys less reassurance.

Woodside Treated Wooden Log Store vs VOUNOT and VIVOHOME

Against the VOUNOT Firewood Log Rack Green, the Woodside costs £50.50 more for 7 litres less, 913 litres against 920, and that money buys timber, a felt roof and a wooden door instead of a green metal frame under a fabric cover. Choose the VOUNOT when 3p a litre matters more than how the store looks, and the Woodside when the stack sits where you can see it.

Against the VIVOHOME 6ft at £89.99, the Woodside is £10 cheaper and holds 125 litres more, 913 against 788, though the VIVOHOME adds a 600D Oxford cover with a zip front and has 3,739 ratings behind it. For a wall that takes the weather head-on, that £10 is worth paying; for a sheltered corner, the Woodside keeps more wood for less money.