A good old fashioned shed building thread (picture heavy)

Bregante – Member

Love that. Some people on here are really very talented indeed.

Agreed!

I bought a woodworking book just after Christmas and have so far erm, read it a few times…..that’s about it!
Along with my plans to become a master wheel-building expert.

Can barely keep on top of cutting the grass and washing the bikes, so god knows where I would find the time to ‘do woodworking’ but I really want to get started with it.

wow, nice work there.

Shed is all felted now, and compost bins built at the side. At some point I’ll be starting to make wooden shakes\shingles from offcuts that I’ll use to clad the external wall at each end.

Having some nice evenings already sat down there with an incinerator and a beverage or two…oh, and we made the Allotment association Newsletter!… Sweet. 😀

I’ve got a question for the woodburnerists!

Just picked up a nice little workshop stove and am starting to think about how best I might get the flue out the roof, or in fact, if it would be best to route it out of the end wall instead?..

You can see that it’s steep inside where the chimney will naturally meet the roof.

I know that you can get these silicone roof cowling things…

….but the natural place for the flue to exit the roof near the top is going to be a pretty steep pitch.
Has anyone fitted something similar on such a steep pitch?

Or, would I be better getting it to come out of the front wall low down with a 45 or 90 degree bend and then upwards on the outside?
Like this sort of thing…

I can’t believe I missed this thread!
Amazing work. Some fantastic ideas. Love the washing machine doors.

I’m planning a recycled garden office build and I always come back to using the recycled elements in an ordered patterned way like you have done with the grouping of portholes. Really excellent!

The ribs are a thing of beauty. Great that you’ll be able to appreciate those on the inside permanently.

It’s also great that you got some good photos. Even though I’m an amateur photographer, I never seem to get the time to photograph my own work with anything other than the iPhone.

Looking forward to following the progress.

Personally, I would go out the wall or nearly apex of roof. Such a steep angle would be a challenge to waterproof properly IMO…

Our house roof has a pitch of 52 degrees and has a standard flashing. You can get ones with a built-in angle, which say it’s ok up to 65 degrees – your roof looks to be about that where the flue would go through, like this.

Epicshedness. 😀

Awesome stuff 🙂

I’d agree about going out the wall. You can get heatproof large rubber sleeve/gaskgaskes for this. If you look at the second page of my shed thread towards the bottom you’ll see the flue coming out of my shed wall. I’ll try to remember to take a closer picture for you when I get home.

Love your shed!!

brilliant stuff. well done.

Home too late and it’s dark but this is the general idea:
flashing

Missed this first time round, bloody brilliant!!

great work!!

Gettin’ my shingle on…

The shingles/shakes are made from all sorts of bits and bobs from the workshop.
They are all bandsaw cut and so I tend to stay late some evenings cutting a bucket full.

It takes ages actually but they are nearly there.
I’ll wack some preservative on when it’s done.

Species including;
Oak
Ash
Maple
Douglas fir
Yew
Sapele
Elm
Holly
Tanalised timber
Walnut

Sends your eyes a bit funny now but it’ll all weather down.
🙂

You can pretty much see my rainwater harvesting solution there too.

Basically, I’ve created a gutter each side from the top front, sweeping to the back where it funnels into a water butt each side. It works pretty well but I think I may have to modify it sadly when I take the chimney of the stove out of the roof.

I’d like to thank God, my agent, my family etc, etc….. 😉

Got a stove fitted now too… Looks pretty sweet and works very well with an excellent draw.

Cheeky little wood/flotsam & jetsam store

Oh, and I’ve started to build ANOTHER shed now for my girlfriend on her plot, which is in a beautiful spot by the river….

Where is the like button?

Fantastic! If only I had the skill/ability and patience to attempt this!
Very impressive

Superb build! Wish I also had the time/space/skills to do this…
Shed envy!

some serious shed and allotment envy going on here 🙂

Is the one for your girlfriend going to have windows overlooking the river?

That’s a beautiful shed with some really nice touches. Not your run of the mill design either which is always nice to see.

Nice one, Kayak.

spawnofyorkshire – Member
Is the one for your girlfriend going to have windows overlooking the river?

Yes. We’ve got hold of some old Narrowboat windows. It’s going to have a deck out front too so you can sit and rock and drink beer. Also, the scrotes across the river in the park can chuck rocks at you which’ll be nice…

Had a week or so off recently so got quite a bit done. Because I was short on time I told her she’d have to buy treated timber so I could do it quick rather than scrat about trying to find suitable stuff out of skips. I also don’t want it to collapse and kill someone so wanted to build it sturdy…

Offering up the first side

Putting up the sides, making frames to fit the boat windows.

Scaffold board flooring

Making a jig to build the six roof trusses. These are made from old scaffy boards cut in half.

Roof trusses

My poor car…

Starting to get the trusses up

The river plot.
These plots are understandably highly sought after, so the committee runs a raffle for them on the rare times they come up. My GF won the raffle and so is sharing it with a few other people.

From the river bank looking up. Apparently the spot used to be a ferry crossing before the footbridge up the river was built, and so has a sturdy concrete ‘deck’.

Got hold of some old tin sheets from a reclamation yard, fiver a sheet so started bunging them on.

Fitting a door which was found, and another couple of narrowboat windows. The big posts at the front are the old semi-rotten bearers/skids from the old shed. I’ve used some old turned table legs for the corner bracing.

Pretty much at a point now where the framework is done. Got to finish the floors, build the decking (and maybe a diving board… 😉 ) and then we plan to have a cladding party where we’re going to clad the whole structure in all sorts of random stuff, the more random the better… Just bring a hammer! 😀

Outstanding work

That 2nd shed looks like a bit of a monster. I can however imagine having a beer and a BBQ on that veranda and watching the world go by down the river.

Shingles all finally finished on both ends!!! 😀
That took a while.

Shed number 2 has started to be clad using random bits of whatever we find. It won’t actually get too much weather due to the overhang of the roof so not worrying quite so much about weatherproofing.

Scaffold board floor done

Love the shingles on the boat-shed shed. Both fantastic sheds!

Fantastic work. Never thought I’d covet another man’s shed. Chapeau!

God I love that floor. Its gorgeous.
Top thread this, truly inspiring.

I wish I had photos of a shed I built years ago…
I collected pallets for about a year beforehand.
They don’t split easily, due to the ribbed nails, so I used to bash them diagonally on the floor on each corner loosen them. Then cut between the slats with a hacksaw to chop the nails off. Obviously you couldn’t plane the wood, & had to be careful cutting it with the nails still in, but I managed to collect a healthy pile, enough to build a 8′ x 10′ shed. I overlayed & joined timbers to create 4″ x 2″ joists.
I believe its still standing now.

I wish I had photos of a shed I built years ago…
I collected pallets for about a year beforehand.
They don’t split easily, due to the ribbed nails, so I used to bash them diagonally on the floor on each corner loosen them. Then cut between the slats with a hacksaw to chop the nails off. Obviously you couldn’t plane the wood, & had to be careful cutting it with the nails still in, but I managed to collect a healthy pile, enough to build a 8′ x 10′ shed. I overlayed & joined timbers to create 4″ x 2″ joists.
I believe its still standing now.

Would love to see it. Can’t get enough of the shed life at the moment.
I have to say I’m having lots of trouble breaking up pallets effectively without breaking them. Euro pallets in particular are virtually impossible to break up despite my efforts…
I got myself one of these which helps with the ‘low-end’ pallets.

What’s the betting the river plot raffle was fixed as the allotment committee knew they’d get another amazing shed built?!

Great stuff though, very inspiring.

I’m just trying to work out if kayak23 needs to come and build me a shed…

I reckon stw could soon have two members who’ve been on shed of the year!

You have to go for next year’s comp with your first creation at least Kayak. It’s simply fantastic.

Thanks a lot.
Yeah I’ve emailed a couple of pics this week. Wanted to wait until it looked more finished so we’ll see.
I’d be crap on telly mind. Drenched in Stagefright… 😕

Look forward to hearing how you get on.

Good luck 8)

Just about finished mine now,a bit of landscaping done and quite pleased with it

Top work on the allotment sheds!

That looks ace sargey. Is it for an office?

Kayak23

it could be used for an office but at the moment the rear is a workshop and the wife wants the glazed part for a gym.

Great work kayak!
Both look superb.
Having tried myself, getting random reclaimed bits to look good takes a special skill. Very well done.

lovely stuff

not my words, the words of shakin stevens