[Closed] Anyone built a shed using slotted angle as a framework?

Can't see how slotted angle will help you really, certainly can't see how its more useful than a piece of wood.

My carpentry skills are not that great so I thought slotted angle may be easier!

Use timber with angle brackets if you prefer screwing to hammering. Either way you're going to need to use a saw, I would have thought, for the cladding.

Its the cladding that would become the pain in the arse. With a timber frame you are fixing through thin cladding into the thicker frame - long screws or nails giving plenty of grip. If you use angle then you have to fix through the frame to the cladding, so you'll have little short screws trying to bite into thin cladding, and the slots are too big, so you'll need big washers on each screw. The alternative is to bolt through but thats going to get tedious pretty quickly. As you assemble it'll become a two person job to fit each bolt, one inside one outside.

If you're not happy to do the woodwork just buy a kit shed from somewhere like B&Q. It'll probably cheaper than the wood if you made it yourself

steel angle iron frame bolted together, then clad in corrugated steel sheeting, which is way tougher than tin sheeting.
pot rivet the sheets to the frame, kinda like a modern day anderson shelter......... 8)

Its a lot easier and cheaper with wood.

Here's a link to a simply build of a woodshed, but you could fully clad the sides with timber and build a wooden floor and have a simple spacious shed. The bays are 2.4m square. the 4x4 posts were 10 feet long.

Basic tools needed. Spade, spirit level, square, saw, hammer nails, saw and G clamps, string.

Be sure the posts are vertical and everything is square. When you have made one joint, you just apply the method to the next.

https://picasaweb.google.com/113038090087066024057/20120126NewWoodShed#
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