Put the Tin on

It took about 3 hours. I want to build another one before next Winter and I’m pretty sure I’ll adapt the way I built it, not the plan itself which worked just fine, just the order and methods for putting it together. I’ll try and publish a guide then. In the end, it takes a day to build, and it’s very sturdy.

Bill of material and plans bellow.

Bill of Material

  • 2x4x8 Pressure treated (2)
  • 2x4x8 (7)
  • 2x4x10 (16)
  • 8×3 tin panels (8)
  • any 3/4 thick cheap lumber for bracing (4)

Plan

quick_sturdy_shed.skp

Porch, Mud Room, Soap Shop

It’s routine now. We got started on construction although the plans aren’t yet finalized. First we build up supporting beams. Two 24 footers and one 16 footer in this case.

Then a whole day is spend measuring and leveling as we place them in exactly the right spot.

We have half an inch in 2 dimensions to play with.

The laser is ever useful

Up it goes, it’s definitely heavy.

So is the car jack

It was a busy week end filled with many projects…

Quick Shed

I despise tarps, they’re worthless and then they break. I’ve been toying for a while with the idea of the quickest/cheapest shed I could put together. The model having stagnated for a while in sketchup, I figured it meant I would find no more optimization in the virtual world. It was time to try in in the real world.

This is optimized to get standard sized lumber and make a minimal amount of cuts. Framing went really well and I haven’t learned anything I would do different, I still need to put the tin on.

I made all the cuts in 40 minutes.

Cut up in a kit for assembly beyond the orchard

And it took about 2 hours to assemble, not bad at all.

What’s left to do? Tin for the roof which should be pretty quick, I’d like to level it a bit and set it on something to keep it off the ground. I could side it, but that isn’t a requirement for now, covered is already a huge improvement. Lastly if it works like I think it will, I would like it to be my standard shed I can build here and there for all sorts of needs. And when I have a few, I’d like to build a rig to move them around.