A good old fashioned shed building thread (picture heavy)

Looking forward tonight’s episode. You deserve to win.

good luck , fellow stubby digit!

😀
Mines not on until the last episode btw, but some fantastic ones in tonight.

Missus has buggered off for the weekend, this will be top of the pops I reckon.

On another note, your shed has been an inspiration for my daughters future play house, maybe with a few more washing machine windows for extra entertainment.

I’m watching.. And enjoying.
I still much prefer the recycled/homemade sheds…

‘I’m watching.. And enjoying.
I still much prefer the recycled/homemade sheds…’

+1, I think the ingenuity in recycling materials makes the process more of an adventure.

Yes I think the competition always ends up a little controversial as to what constitutes a shed.
Some lovely shots of mine in there. The camera they used was amazing 🙂

Shed of the Year is on at eight o’clock if you’ve nowt else happening.

Just a reminder to the good people of STW. Shed of the Year, the final is on tonight at 8pm on Channel 4.

My segment is on tonight so I’ll be happily cringeing at myself.

You don’t want to watch that Olympics rubbish, shed of the year is where it’s at 😉

Let me know what you thought, providing you can be nice… 🙂

Winner! Congrats…. Well deserved.

Yay…!

Superb build.

Edit : You look like you should be driving trains for a living, not making wood things.

I’m in France and missed tonight’s episode and the result.

Excellent and well deserved win. Your work is innovative and inspirational.

Woo Hoo well done !

Excellent! Congratulations. I’ve missed too as I’m away but will definitely watch it when I get home.

Erm

Just to clarify…. Category winner I think….

Yep Category Category Winner and well deserved. Congrats and good luck for next week (though you already know).

Shame you didn’t get a bigger rosette!

just watched it on +1. well done mate, inspiring stuff. its a skill i wish i had instead of relying on others.

congrats.

Good lad kayak!
Can’t watch out here on the continent, but will do so next month.

Cheers folks. Yes, category winner, but quite a nice surprise that I was seemingly in there up to the wire with the gorgeous and well deserved winner, the West Wing. Blummin amazing build and a great bloke too. Cheers for the support folks.
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Congratulations. I’m looking forward to your next shed. 🙂

🙂

Missed this 4 days ago, congrats! Love this kind of thread, really inspiring 🙂

One of my students bought a book in today that they’d bought as a gift for someone.
It’s a Mister Men parody a little like those ladybird books of late.

The page on ‘Mister DIY’ seemed to ring a few bells.
Coincidence? … 😀

Not sure I’m too into the book title…
🙂

too many fingers to be a true reflection of the shedist 🙂

That is uncanny Kayak – I’d be making enquiries with the author. Are they more likely to be an allotmenteer or a STWer?

Fantastic stuff, wish I’d found this sooner – been building my own caravan on a twin axle chassis for the past few months – I wish I’d seen how you created the curves for the roof earlier – laminated mine and it was a bit of a faff!

It’s going to be used for a bit of AirBnB on the farm and some local holidays/festivals with the family. Although I may build a shorter one for the road as it’ll be a bit of a handful at over 27′ in length and 7’6 wide.

Tried to attach a photo but can’t seem to make it work from google photos.

been building my own caravan on a twin axle chassis for the past few months

You need to start a progress build thread!

We’ll see about that!
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Outside – although it’s been treated now so is a bit darker.

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Inside, rubbish phone panorama to squeeze it all in.

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It wouldn’t be woodburnertrackworld without one.

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The porch at the back, now with an old church pew and side rails.

It’s not too far off completion now, be nice to get it out of the shed and into the daylight this weekend.

A new STW talented-bastard emerges from the darkness!

Its ok I’ve report his post, he wont be among us for much longer.

omg – look at your all your workspace and all those tools…
(jaw hanging open)

Building a shed inside a shed! I’m having inception flashbacks.

I’m not sure about talented, more like ambitious! At the early stages I used to stand back, have a brew and think ‘what the hell have I taken on here’.

Last year I bought the shell of a shepherd’s hut and got it finished off, only ever done a bit of DIY and that always ends up at the more rustic finish, although that has it’s own perks as everything tends to look like it’s always been there.

This year I thought I’d get a bit creative for the next hut. Design it to suit my needs rather than just produce another shepherd’s hut .

If shed fans do fancy a few extra photos I’m sure I can find some.

Get a thread started!

Agreed!

Get a thread started!

Agreed!

thirded!

Thought I’d update my build thread.

When I originally built this river shed, I had to be a bit wary of size what with it being on an allotment and so it stayed the size that the original shed that was there and fell down was, all except for a deck I cheekily built.

The deck was uncovered for half it’s length and so now the heat has died down from the allotment committee I decided to extend the roof to cover the whole deck, and help slow its decay.

I made another A-frame. The pattern I cut to sit on it was going to just be a temporary thing until I thought of something nicer but you know, I kind of Like it (see what I did there?…)

I had a few days holiday left before going back to the grind but it meant that I had to fit the roof extension all by myself. Pretty gnarly really trying to hold up a massive A-frame up a ladder, on a deck about 8 foot off the ground! 😯

I managed it though by building a central strut which held up the extended ridge beam, which I could then use to sling a strap over and lift, tighten, lift using the strap to take the weight. Then I just had to build supports etc and extend the original roof rails.

For the main supports I went hunting for felled trees down a local lane and found a couple of nice ones which were relatively straight and cut them in to sit under the A-frame. I then triangulated the shit out of it.

It looks mint now it’s up and hopefully it’ll protect the deck fully and allow beer drinking evenings in all but the worst of weather 😀

Hoisting the A-frame.
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Be the first of your friends to Like this shed.
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The ridge from the outside
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All held together with twigs.
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Shed pan
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I’ve not had many projects on lately and have gotten a bit down about stuff so it’s been really nice to get my teeth into something creative. 🙂

Superb sir,always good to see your projects.
Must be a winner for the ‘Shed beside Water category’ . 🙂

One day the inside of my camper will look like your sheds.

Ace