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Thanks. Self taught welder by dinking around over the years. Certainly no where near pro-quality but I haven't had a weld fail . . . yet. Given the modest building loads I should be fine with my welding skills for the shed brackets. I've taken a day or two here or there to work on the shed...

Most of the steel work happened after dark in the garage. Usually on this project I've tried to do what I could outside during daylight and leave things such as this to after-dark work since it can be done in the garage. No sense wasting valuable daylight. Because of this I've been double...

Big image post from the last week+. Spent most of last week's evening putting up the plywood and installing some added blocking. Then I got a big 1/2" long splinter lodged in my thumb as I started working on the rafters Sunday. Finished installing the rafters with splinter lodged in thumb...

It's very satisfying to see the project progress from the 3D model to an actual built structure. It's one of the things I love about my field of architecture. But to see it happen to a personal project is the best yet.

String is awesome. So simple yet really helps a lot in construction, especially with alignment and layout.

Ok, it looks like they have some stout support for the header. I'm suspecting the darker colored stud on the left (opening side) is probably some kind of treated lumber or maybe cedar. Something a bit more weather resistant as I'm sure that's what the builder will attach the garage door on to...

We have an awesome play structrue . . . at our local park. :bounce: Look'n good everyone. :+1: Tell me about it. My wife had no idea the scope of the shed project I was working on even though I showed her drawings and renderings. It sort of dawned on her when I ordered the third concrete...

Probably not much worse than any water that comes off of their roof towards his property line. :) Granted, the neighbor's gable roof sheds half its water to the other side of the structure. But it's still a not insignificant roof plane to collect water.

Typical 2x4 and 2x6 stud walls that are spaced 16" o.c. have more to do with providing sufficient support for sheetrock than they do with load carrying capability. You could yank out about every other stud in a typical stud wall and it'd be perfectly fine for supporting the structure. But the...

Thanks guys. The shed is actually built to minimum code requirements (even though I didn't need a permit) and is better built than our house. Given that our house has been around for a half century so far I figure there's plenty of life in the shed. This morning I picked up the steel plate to...

Ah, cool. The James Hardie siding products are very common up here and are the default fiber cement panel for the NW, pretty much. So that's what I'm going with. It's a 5/16" thick fiber cement material, sounds similar to what you're using. I was going to take 4x8 sheets and rip them down to...

Getting started on the big shed building now. Somewhat chaotic evenings have kept me from putting in much time in the evenings. That and the fact I've lost about an hour of day light working time from about a month or two ago. Still, putting in 1 to 2 hours a night I've got the first of the...

Forgot to ask . . . Are you nailing or screwing your siding onto the furring strips? And if screwing (I'd assume exposed pan head screws or something similar), are you pre-painting the panels before installation or painting afterwards (and painting right over the screws)? I was figuring on...

Thanks for the replies and answers. And you're right, the gapped rainscreen systems definitely befuddle most of the contractors I've talked to to say nothing of the guys at the lumber yards. I check on the Vaproshield. It's sounds like a great product but holy **** is it expensive. IIRC, an...

Cool beans, man. I love the simplicity and modern form of the shed roofs. The build I'm doing right now has a similar approach with a simple shed roofed structure. Shed Project: New Construction Build Thread Good move on hiring out the concrete. Sort of wish I had the budget to do that...

Um, er. . . the interior is not in the budget at this time. The foundation was much higher than I expected and so I'm trying to put off as much unnecessary things for later. I'll get the core shell in but the interior wall finish and the workbench are definitely things for another day. The...

Actually, they are DF #2 rafters. And I didn't even pick them out. It's just what the lumber yard grabbed off their lot and bundled on their truck for my delivery order. Pretty much ordered the lowest grade lumber the yard had for the majority of the framing. I did go to SPF for the blocking...

Very nice. Nice cars and a great garage to keep them in. Everything is looking sharp!

Thanks for the tip, Zeug, but it's a bit late at this point. I'll do that for the other shed building when I frame up the roof. Just got the roof sheathing and roofing done this weekend. I'll be starting on the big shed building next. Once that is at the same point I'll do the siding for...

The weather has cooled off nicely the last few days with overcast skies in the 70's but no rain. Near perfect working conditions. For several days working only a couple hours a day I've bee cutting and installing the wall sheathing (plywood) on the small shed building. It's now finished and I...