Wood Storage Door vs. Critters

[BrianShaw]

Re: Wood Storage Door vs. Critters

There's not a door tight enough to keep out the pests frequently seen in my backyard - black widow spiders. Ewwwww.

[Ken524]

Re: Wood Storage Door vs. Critters

No door on mine. Found a nice little mouse nest in there when loading in some new wood and rotating dry stuff to the front. We have the Hanta Virus here, so that got me a little worried...
Drake

Drake,

I'm designing a door frame/ jam as we speak. Your post is all I needed to convince me I need a door!

Thanks,
Ken

[DrakeRemoray]

Re: Wood Storage Door vs. Critters

No door on mine. Found a nice little mouse nest in there when loading in some new wood and rotating dry stuff to the front. We have the Hanta Virus here, so that got me a little worried...no way to attach a door at this point, and don't want to poison my wood...thinking about a trap.
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Drake

[rlf5]

Re: Wood Storage Door vs. Critters

I don't know about anyone else, but I plan on putting a door on mine. If the possums or snakes don't take root up in there, then my dogs sure will try. Also, the rain down here tends to come in sideways sometimes, so I'd need a door to keep the wood dry.

[Ken524]

I notice many builders have not included doors on their wood storage areas. I'm on the fence as to whether I should include a door.

For those of you that don't have doors, do you have problems with critters wondering in there?

I'd hate to be rooting around the wood and surprise something that has made a new home in the wood storage area!

Ken