How to build your own Garden Shed

How to build your own Garden Shed

Any homeowner is well aware that storage space is always limited inside the house. After all, there is a certain limit to the things that you can store away in your basement or even your garage. So what you will really need in such a case will be a garden shed. It needs to be large enough in order to house a complete set of outdoor power tools including the DeWalt power tools besides organized space for keeping your rakes, shovels and even your fertilizer and fuel.

Garden Shed Plan

You can always build a wooden garden shed by buying a kit. The manufacturer would be giving his own materials as well as layout. Now you can build a garden shed this way. Another option is to design a structure that is able to suit all your particular needs as well as tastes. Even though this may cost more and may even take a bit longer, but this way you would be able to get exactly what you want.

How to build your own Garden Shed Structure

The garden shed had to be set on concrete blocks or even on treated-lumber skids. This way even in the frost situations, the soil will move uniformly as the ground will freeze and then thaw. Start by staking the four corners of your garden shed. You need to dig depressions at each corner as well as at the centre of every wall.

Next, put some crushed rock into each depression and level it. Stack the blocks and glue these together by using construction adhesive. The area within the blocks can be covered with landscape fabric besides crushed rock.

Building Garden Shed

Make use of pressure-treated lumber and these needs to be placed next to these blocks. Stagger the sill and nail each of the sill pieces to the bottom of the band joist. Now secure the offset corners with galvanized nails.

Set the joists in their place, by placing their crown up. Secure these with nails that can be driven through these band joists.

Then you need to install the plywood floor. Keep the band joists straight, and make use of galvanized nails.

DIY Garden Shed

For the walls, you need to cut the wall plates and at both ends, install the studs for the short walls. Mark the rough opening for the door on the plates.

You need to space the studs from your centre stud in order to suit your window openings. Next, you have to install the siding. Cut your window openings while keeping the siding in place. Positioning of the windows has to be in a way in order to make them square with the wall. Use roofing nails in order to nail through the flanges.

Raise your end walls. Now nail these at the corners. Next, nail a top plate on top of each end wall. Finish the underside of your roof overhang by using plywood. Deck the roof with plywood, and leave a small gap on each side for ventilation. Now cover this plywood by using roofing felt.

Beautiful Garden Shed

Making your garden shed this way will require the use of power tools too.