Shed construction pics, go easy on me!!

[hoof]

Here is the "foundation" for my shed. To avoid a permit I needed to stay under 144 sq/ft and be on "skids." So my building is 11'11" by 11'11", and it is up on a skid of 4x4 pressure treated posts on 2 ft centers with tongue and groove plywood on top.

This is us moving the walls. I built them in my real garage over the course of about 3 nights. The three 12x8 walls were fine, but the 10' tall high needed to be split in two sections to come through the garage door. My wife was a little worried that the shed had 5 walls! The section we are moving has the cut out for the door. I put the purlins on while they were in the garage also.

My wife was our photographer, and we skip forward quite a bit here to having all the walls up. In her defense it took exactly one half hour to put the walls together. I was almost as suprised as everyone else when the walls meshed together square and exactly fit the foundation.

Joists up and the purlin going on the roof. I got the metal on the roof, but that is where we quit for the day. We went from bare ground to shed under roof in about 10 hours. I spent about 1k so far, but the purlins are not included as I had 800 foot of old crate matreial laying around.

CHAZ

 

[J.T.]

Nice shed Chaz.When can I move my junk in?

 

[snorvet]

Good looking shed!

 

[Stephenw]

Why 24" center on your floors? Isn't your floor spongy? I'd have done 16" center floor joists.

Edit-I'd have sunk concrete blocks and set my floor joist on those rather than directly on the ground. Pressure treated studs will still rot, they just take longer.

 

[hoof]

Why 24" center on your floors? Isn't your floor spongy? I'd have done 16" center floor joists.

Edit-I'd have sunk concrete blocks and set my floor joist on those rather than directly on the ground. Pressure treated studs will still rot, they just take longer.

Nothing heavy is going in here. I have a Cub tractor, I already figured if I put it in there I will need to put boards on the floor to drive it on. It is mostly getting riding mower stuff that isn't very heavy. The ends of the 4x4's are up on bricks sunk down in flush.
CHAZ

 

[sjsfire]

Nice job on the shed. I built mine as well. I sank those concrete deck pads in the ground and used treated 2x8 on 16 inch centers for my floor topped with the treated 3/4inch plywood. My yard had a slope so the concrete deck pads worked out great. Plus I get some air movement under mine to minumize moisture. I'm always happy to see someone build a shed instead of buying from the big box stores. Build them 5 times better for a third of the cost! Post more pictures when your done.

 

[JMURiz]

Question, are the deck pads you are talking about something like this:

Or was it just some of the round 'pills'

Thanks, I'm trying to decide on a 'floating' shed or a concrete slab base myself.

 

[kbs2244]

I built an 8 foot by 16 foot with big doors in one end.
I just used those 8x16 patio pavers as a base with concrete blocks to get it up in the air a bit. Shimmed it with pieces of treated one and two inch stock on top of the blocks to get it close to level. Three quarter inch ply floor on 24 inch centers with a cross piece at 24 inches to form a grid, Then a “foundation” block at each 24 x24 spacing.
County counts it as “portable” that way. No permits and no taxes.
***** and such like that way in the winter too. That big, dry underneath space must seem like a Hilton to them.
Your drawing shows wind tie downs. I didn't use them, and we were on the SE side of a big lake and cought all the NW wind. If the county wants them then you need them, but I found it soon collected a lot of weight.
Being portable came in handy when the week end only neighbors came up and saw it. They complained to the county that I had it too close to the lot line. The county agreed.
So, after talking to my boys, we just put round fence posts under it and rolled it across our lot to the other side using 4x4‘s as levers. It took an afternoon to do it. (Me and 3 boys from 12 to 15.)
It was meant to be a shop/garage for them to work on their ATC’s and they liked in the new spot better for easy access. And it let me get my cars back into the garage.

 

[hoof]

Here is the siding going on. Thanks to Brett Woodsides, and Jeff Hill (brother-in-law) for their help. More pics as I get it done, but don't hold your breathe, back to work tomorrow!

CHAZ

 

[kbs2244]

Man, that high wall is just begging to be facing South and have a scrounged picture window.
The solar heating will have you working in your shirtsleeves, and the light sure doesn’t hurt.
Looking real good though. For sure, nothing to be ashamed of.
It is called “Purpose Built.” You knew what you needed, and that is what you built.

 

[wrigh003]

My wife is silently begging me for a potting shed (by way of having all kinds of plants and gardening miscellany all over our house), so stuff like this is really helping me get the ideas for how I want to do it. Now, to move from the "planning" to "execution" stage. Takes me a while.

 

[JMURiz]

Hey, if you can build that, a potting shed would be cake!

 

[boiler7904]

My wife is silently begging me for a potting shed (by way of having all kinds of plants and gardening miscellany all over our house), so stuff like this is really helping me get the ideas for how I want to do it. Now, to move from the "planning" to "execution" stage. Takes me a while.

Better to have it all over the house than all over the garage.

 

[christian]

Any finished pictures? looks good man

 

[hoof]

I am waiting for the weather to break. Well at least that is what I told the wife. I practically have it full already and there are only three walls. I have to hang the doors before I cover the last wall, and I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Plus it is really stupid cold in the north east this spring.
CHAZ

 

[sjsfire]

Question, are the deck pads you are talking about something like this:

Or was it just some of the round 'pills'

Thanks, I'm trying to decide on a 'floating' shed or a concrete slab base myself.

Yes thats the same kind I used. You might check your local building regs. Where I'm from if you I would have poured a slab it would be considered permanent and I'd get taxed for it. Mines pretty much permanent I don't ever plan on moving it but it's considered portable.