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I ended up using helical piers instead of sonotubes for my shed foundation (see pic). For a couple of reasons, I plan to hang 2x6 floor joists on hangers on 16" centers between the nominal 6x6 beams rather than building a floor on top of the beams: 1) there's a maximum 9' height restriction...

I didn't pay close attention to the sonotube version or think I'd end up taking that approach until the concrete quotes came in around $7000, with 75% of that due by the day they start excavating. So I figured I'd try to see if I could rent a mini excavator with a large auger bit and do the...

For my area such a building needs to withstand the forces of 110mph winds IIRC (the engineer's calc package PDF is causing the reader to hang after a recent software update) and the engineer is no longer available (I hired him over a year ago via an online service). I had to provide an...

Yes, I'm building the shed. But I have to use a bracket with published specs in order to satisfy the hurricane-proofing requirements of my town.

What had me concerned about some of the brackets I've been finding online is that the pictures show them being used with posts rather than skids, and I thought it might be a code violation to use them in another way. My horizontal skids will be resting in the bracket. There are height...

I want to put an 8x20 outbuilding on two 6x6 pressure-treated pine skids, each resting atop five concrete "sonotube" piers. But I'm not sure what kind of galvanized bracket is used to do that. Is there a special bracket for that purpose?

Greetings from near the Twelve Mile Circle. I'm recently retired and want to build a "garage" where I can store and tune our bicycles and keep other things that have taken over the porch. -- blint