Shed build
- Thread starter James Harcourt-Flynn
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Main south frame with window made
Main south frame with window made
Yeah mine too,she refuses to get out the car,i always knock and ask as most people always say "help yourself" got 5 4x4 posts too...not sure what to do with those
Got these for free....
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Also 250 quids worth of rubber roof for £87 and 3 hrs on the train....had to go to Oxford for it.
Swapped 3 of the 4 1.8m posts i got out the skip for 2 2.4m ones at a timber yard those will be the supports for the porch overhang.
Swapped 3 of the 4 1.8m posts i got out the skip for 2 2.4m ones at a timber yard those will be the supports for the porch overhang.
Soldato
Good looking project - does your roof slope to the rear - if so I hope you can get some gutters on it - also put your cladding on so it overlaps the concrete base.
Roof slopes away from the wall,made the face frane up and test fitted the window and door unit.
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Soldato
That is a nice sized shed/summerhouse - mine is similar in design not half as big but roof slopes back - I gave the company a brief and had windows supplied and thought that with all the tongue and groove cladding it would be strong - but last year I struggled to open the doors - I found that the building had started to tilt to the right so had to jack it back upright - then had to make plywood angles for the corners and Tee pieces for the middle - I should have fitted a few angled braces between the uprights.
Im going to do some bracing of the uprights...not sure how to go about it tho...any ideas?
Put a felt skirt around the bottom to help water run off.
And the porch or 'western abutment' went up too.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/68uq2xw1ms38vg9/20191022_180642.jpg?dl=0
Put a felt skirt around the bottom to help water run off.
And the porch or 'western abutment' went up too.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/68uq2xw1ms38vg9/20191022_180642.jpg?dl=0
Soldato
Just put a few diagonals between a few uprights - top to bottom going one way to the center and same going the other way.
When I built my garage years ago it was on the same principle as yours I put felt all around it floor to roof before the ship lap and also like you overlapped
it over the base. It's still there today looking just as good as when I did it 30 odd yrs ago.
The double door frame was made of 3x2 angle iron concreted into the ground and there was another half way down just to stabilise the framework along with all the other cross bracing.
Sorry about pictures - they are copies of photos and I have miss laid most of them
When I built my garage years ago it was on the same principle as yours I put felt all around it floor to roof before the ship lap and also like you overlapped
it over the base. It's still there today looking just as good as when I did it 30 odd yrs ago.
The double door frame was made of 3x2 angle iron concreted into the ground and there was another half way down just to stabilise the framework along with all the other cross bracing.
Sorry about pictures - they are copies of photos and I have miss laid most of them
Soldato
You've got it. 
Soldato
For bracing on a large frame like that you could just use a single piece of 4x1 and notch it into the uprights.
https://paulsellers.com/2019/08/sheds-at-home/
If you scroll down this blog post you'll see what I mean.
https://paulsellers.com/2019/08/sheds-at-home/
If you scroll down this blog post you'll see what I mean.
I like Marks idea of notching a 4x1 in...
Busy day today firrings went on,roof boards went on..that was fun!!..not. had to order another 2m lenth of rubber roof as the bit i picked up was short so got the splicing kit ( primer,tape) seemed to go ok...looks stuck together!!? So the roofs coverings in place shall deal with the overhang and finish fit tomorrow...light just goes to fast now.
Busy day today firrings went on,roof boards went on..that was fun!!..not. had to order another 2m lenth of rubber roof as the bit i picked up was short so got the splicing kit ( primer,tape) seemed to go ok...looks stuck together!!? So the roofs coverings in place shall deal with the overhang and finish fit tomorrow...light just goes to fast now.
Been getting loads done on the saloon,rubber roof went on,did the strengthening that was recommended and it did make a big difference to rigidity of the overall structure, a lot of woods gone into this beast i think im into this project about 1200 quid now, worth it to build your own though. Clad the window side with shiplap and cut the windows in.
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