Building a shed?

[Easytigers]

That's not a shed...looks like part of the Death Star! It's massive!!!

 

[screenman]

That's not a shed...looks like part of the Death Star! It's massive!!!

Sorry, that is not my shed, it is part of my garage/workshop, the rest of it looks better.

 

[GarryG]

Thanks guys, that food for thought. The current one is 8x6, so going a bit bigger so I can store bikes and work in it.

Which ever way I decide, I was also thinking of lining it with board inside.

 

[Saluki]

A proper man cave that.

A man cave? Is that like the sewing room that us ladies have, only less pink and with no unicorns in?

 

[stephec]

The next build is for the bikes, as I do not like where some of them are now. As I like the garage for working in.

That's way too clean, did you tidy it up specially for a visit from Hello magazine?

 

[stephec]

A man cave? Is that like the sewing room that us ladies have, only less pink and with no unicorns in?

And no fluffy cushions either.

 

[screenman]

That's way too clean, did you tidy it up specially for a visit from Hello magazine?

If I knew how to get the pictures out of the phone I would show you the rest of it, no special clean, I just work better in that sort of environment.

 

[MarkF]

I bought a kit from shed, it was very, very cheap, the material quality was poo, but, it's been up over 12 years so I've had great value from it. The felt on cheap sheds is always rubbish, I replaced mine with EPDM straight away, you can buy it from me .

It's beginning to rot a bit and I am toying with the idea of a pallet built one. http://summerville-novascotia.com/PalletShed/

 

[young Ed]

Sorry, that is not my shed, it is part of my garage/workshop, the rest of it looks better.

we aren't allowed more pics are we?

to build a decent shed you really do need concrete as the base IMO. dig out (preferably with digger) the foundations and fill in so much with hardcore and with cast concrete (with a concrete lorry you will be there all year with a home cement mixer!) and then simply screw heavier timbers such as 6X4's or even 8X6's, really as heavy as you can get. then pin down with very long nails upright timbers at equal spacing and then with cross bracing between them and the top lintel thingies (sorry i forget the real name right now ) along the top of them all. then build up the roof with the rafters coming off the lintel thingies and up to the ridge beam of course and them clad in something such as ply or OSB board, building paper, batoning and then feather edge or weather boarding for the final exterior finish
roofing could be in the form of tiling or corrugated steel sheeting.

not the cheapest by a long way but should be pretty solid and waterproof and cater for your needs as you can change the design to suit what ever you like and require really. also not the easiest building wise but again not impossible.

some pics off the internet for ideas and inspiration:

pouring the concrete
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/Concrete.htm

the concrete pad you build off
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/ClosePad.htm

stud walls going up (this is when a gas powered nail gun is invaluable)
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/ShedTwoWallsBig.htm

stud walls up and just starting to clad in OSB
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/DoneWithSticks.htm

main shell up and clad in OSB, just starting to get rafters up
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/FirstRafters.htm

main shell up and started cladding exterior with OSB and got rafters but no roofing yet
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/RaftersDone.htm

all the photo's of this build
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/

Cheers Ed

 

[screenman]

Markf I see something like that with the pallets and I want to have a go at it. I have made smaller things from the like as shed for the wheelie bins. Brilliant.

Ed, that is roughly how mine was built, only it had to be done on stilts. Or at least it was easier too.

 

[Saluki]

we aren't allowed more pics are we?

to build a decent shed you really do need concrete as the base IMO. dig out (preferably with digger) the foundations and fill in so much with hardcore and with cast concrete (with a concrete lorry you will be there all year with a home cement mixer!) and then simply screw heavier timbers such as 6X4's or even 8X6's, really as heavy as you can get. then pin down with very long nails upright timbers at equal spacing and then with cross bracing between them and the top lintel thingies (sorry i forget the real name right now ) along the top of them all. then build up the roof with the rafters coming off the lintel thingies and up to the ridge beam of course and them clad in something such as ply or OSB board, building paper, batoning and then feather edge or weather boarding for the final exterior finish
roofing could be in the form of tiling or corrugated steel sheeting.

not the cheapest by a long way but should be pretty solid and waterproof and cater for your needs as you can change the design to suit what ever you like and require really. also not the easiest building wise but again not impossible.

some pics off the internet for ideas and inspiration:

pouring the concrete
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/Concrete.htm

the concrete pad you build off
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/ClosePad.htm

stud walls going up (this is when a gas powered nail gun is invaluable)
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/ShedTwoWallsBig.htm

stud walls up and just starting to clad in OSB
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/DoneWithSticks.htm

main shell up and clad in OSB, just starting to get rafters up
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/FirstRafters.htm

main shell up and started cladding exterior with OSB and got rafters but no roofing yet
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/RaftersDone.htm

all the photo's of this build
http://kendipon.org/photoalb/shed/

Cheers Ed

I'd never get a concrete mixer through the flat and into the garden Imagine the mess one of those would make in the porch and living room.
Looks like an excellent build though.

 

[raleighnut]

You can build a far better quality shed for the same price as a kit one - it's just whether you want to spend the time to do it.

If timber use 50mmx50mm sawn instead of the weaker 38mmx38mm kit shed use.

Use Shiplap cladding instead of the poor feather edge used by many shed manufacturers.

Use Polycarbonate for the roof instead of board and felt. Huge amounts of daylight!

A polycarb roof will allow UV light to fade/rot anything you keep in it.

 

[Booyaa]

The next build is for the bikes, as I do not like where some of them are now. As I like the garage for working in.

What hooks do you use to hang the bikes like that? Looking at options for our bikes.
Cheers

 

[screenman]

Turbo area. There is more but it just took me 30 minutes to sort that one out and I have forgot how I did it already. As you can see photography is one of my very many failures in life. I look at the pictures others on here take and think, if only I could.

 

[screenman]

What hooks do you use to hang the bikes like that? Looking at options for our bikes.
Cheers

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