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Building your own garden shed requires a set of detailed plans and procedures. During the planning process you should examine some of the many garden shed plans available at building supply stores and on the internet. Compare these plans with your own designs and interests. By following these five tips you you should be able to develop your own detailed plans to build the shed exactly the way you want it.
1. Picture in your mind the garden shed that would look best in your back yard with all the features to meet your needs. Look at pictures of different sheds as well as actual sheds in various neighborhoods in your town or city and make a mental note of each.
2. Examine different sheds at building supply stores such as Home Depot or Lowe’s. Take note of the design of each, their door entry features and their interior size. Look at the prices of each and think how much you could save by building a garden shed yourself and according to your own specifications. Consider also how large you could build it to stay within building regulations.
3. With tape measure in hand note the measurements of various details such as interior length and width, distance between studs and rafters, height of walls, size of door opening and pitch of roof, just to name a few. These measurements can aid you in making your own changes and design plans.
4. Take note of the material used in the garden sheds on display and decide on what improvements you could make. Look at the quality of lumber, sheeting and roofing they used. Remember, to keep the price low, the builders often use lower quality or grade of materials.
5. Make a scale drawing of the kind of shed you would like to build, such as one inch equals one foot. Then make a scale drawing of all the different parts of the shed, such as walls including stud spacing and headers, front wall with door opening, roof parts with rafter spacing, soffit and fascia, and corner mouldings. Also make a list of all nails, screws and other fasteners.
Since there are numerous garden shed plans on the market and some at a very reasonable cost, you may want to examine them and decide what parts you could use to make your own plans. Making your own detailed plans by following these five tips can give you the confidence needed to do a professional job building a garden shed.
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Many homeowners feel like they cannot build their own wooden garden sheds because they do not have the tools necessary to construct the shed. This should not be a determining factor because it does not take that many tools to build your wooden garden shed. If you want to built it quicker and with less effort there are some tools that would help out but they are not a requirement.
Let’s take a quick look at what we will need to build a great wooden garden shed.
TAPE MEASURE – A standard 20’ tape measure will fulfill all the measuring tools you will need to build wooden garden sheds. The garden shed will most likely be 8’ x 10’ or 10’ x 12’ so a 20’ foot tape measure will be good enough. Even for the roof rafters the 20’ tape will work because no rafter will be longer than 20”.
HAMMERS – A simple hammer will work just fine. You can nail the siding, the flooring, the roof decking, trim and shingles on with a simple hammer. It is advantageous to have a shingle hammer for the installation of asphalt shingles but you can get the job done with a regular hammer. If you are using timbers for the supports of the wooden garden shed a larger mini sledge type hammer is very handy and makes driving spikes into the timbers easier. However, if you are using connector type plates with nail holes for fasteners then a regular hammer is just fine.
SAWS – A simple hand saw will work for everything you need to cut. Because you will need to cut 4’ sheets of plywood for the flooring, roof decking material, and possibly the siding an electric skill saw is very handy. You can cut a 4’ wide sheet of plywood with a handsaw but it is a chore. If you have an electric skill saw you will want a regular blade and a plywood blade to make the job go smoother.
DRILLS – An electric drill is going to be necessary. Yes, you could use a screwdriver but I don’t think your wrist will take the wear and tear while you get the job done. I once had a friend that did serious damage to the ligaments and muscles in his arm when he installed a set of cabinets with a hand screwdriver. Do yourself a favor and get an electric drill which will hold a screwdriver bit.
LEVELS – A level is a must. You must make sure your floor is level before you start building the wooden garden shed and you must make sure that the walls and door and window openings are plumb. Also as you install the doors and windows you will need to make sure they are plumb. I do recommend that you buy a 4’ level to make your checks more accurate. Yes , you can use a smaller level but you will not be near as accurate as when you use a 4’ level to get the job done. If you don’t have a level long enough to check for plumb you can use a plumb bob.
STRING LINE AND CHALK LINE – A 100’ string line is very handy as it can be used for checking several lines at once. Simply tie the line off on a nail, reel out a little more string and set up another line with the balance on the roll. These are inexpensive so get one and use it. Also get a chalk box and chalk. Snapping a line you need to cut is very handy and a more accurate way to make a cut especially if it is an angle. You can also snap a line on the floor so you know where to nail or screw the flooring material into the floor joists. This is also true for keeping a straight line for the roof decking and the shingles.
RAKES AND SHOVELS – If you are using a gravel base or just sitting timbers on the ground then you will need a rake and shovel in order to be able to get the support timbers level. If you are putting support posts into the ground then a post hole digger can be helpful.
A razor knife will be handy to cut shingles, a chalking gun will be handy to install glue and chalk, and prybar/nail puller can also be very useful.
If you don’t have the above listed tools you can most likely borrow the ones you don’t have from a friend, neighbor, or family member. The costs of the foregoing tools should not be a major cost as you probably already have most of them in your garage.
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Fascia boards are located on the eaves. They are fixed on the edge of the roof structure at the lowest end. The eaves commences from the fascia to the building wall. The boards are usually made of timber but other materials like steel sheets, gypsum, glass or plastic are also used. he size of the board is from four inches to twelve inches wide. The thickness is one inch. The boards are chamfered at the bottom and cut straight at the top.
The fascia boards are fixed below the roof covers like tiles or iron sheets. Wrought timber is used for making fascia boards. The finishing is usually of gloss or oil paint in at least three coats. On multi storey homes or buildings,it is important to fix them before laying the roof covers. This is to ensure that they are correctly aligned. The boards are used to carry the rain water gutters that are placed on the roof structure.
The fixing of fascia boards commence after the roof structure is ready. A string is tied from the first rafter to the last for straightness. Since the rafters are pitched they are cut along the string line at ninety degrees. This ensures that the boards are fixed perpendicular to the wall and at ninety degrees upright. This also avoids the use of wedges behind the boards for alignment purposes. A forty five degree cut is made on the boards for jointing.
The fascia board is fixed to the rafters by nailing. The nails are done half way into the rafter. The boards are the adjusted for straightness and plumbness before finally hammering them all in. At the corners where a sloping verge board on a gable side and the fascia meets, the sloped board is cut at angle of the pitched roof. This allows a smooth joint. When the boards are in place then the roof covers are done. Finishing is done using gloss paint.
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When the time comes to build a roof for your shed, there are a few options available to you. I am assuming in this article, that the shed which needs a roof is made out of wood. You can have the traditional shed roof which reaches its highest point down the centre of the construction, or you could have a sloping roof. One which slopes from a high point on one side of the shed.
Ours is by no means a small shed, and it has traditional pitched roof, made up of rafters and joists. I am no joinery expert, but I am a DIY enthusiast, and I know enough to recognize the importance of a properly built, and strong shed roof. Failure to build a shed roof correctly will likely result in damage to the structure at some point in time.
When we had ours built, I saw that it was made properly with rafters and joists, using the correct timber for the job. That is important. The shed is about ten feet long and six feet wide, so we only needed a roof with a fairly basic design. Bear in mind the size of the rafter timbers depends on their distance from the walls to the ridge, and the type of roof covering you want. The greater the distance from walls to the ridge, the bigger the timbers you will need. You will also need to allow for the weight of the roof covering you have chosen. It follows that a heavier roof needs strong support.
We chose the traditional and functional felt roof for the covering material. Although this is more widely used in flat roof constructions, it can be used in pitched roofs as well. The only reservation I have in using it is that it will need replacing anytime after ten years or so, depending on the climatic conditions where you live. The first signs of wear are usually cracking. You can buy branded materials which patch those areas which will start to leak, but in my opinion, at that stage it is better to replace the roof felt completely. By repairing small bits of the roof felt you are just delaying the day when it will need to be fully replaced anyway.
Do not underestimate the additional stress snow can place on a roof structure, and if the area where you live has yearly snowfall, you might want to allow for that in the roof construction. You could have a higher ridge so as to encourage the snow to fall of it more easily. I use the reverse side of an ordinary long handled sweeping brush to remove any snow from our shed roof, well before it freezes.
I hope this article has given you some idea of what it takes to build a shed roof.
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