Maybe January isn't the best time to start building a new shed.

Not the best pictures in fading light with a phone.

We got the floor laid out to the verandah, and built the skeleton for the bench nailing the uprights to the floor joists and supporting their bottoms on flagstones. As a bench it could support a tank. Hopefully tomorrow we will get the windows fitted and have a bash at making a door.

mcmoonter, this gets more and more awesome. How did you bed the posts in then?

Toys, the posts are simply buried 18 inches into the ground. The ground though hard packed is free draining, we refilled the around the posts with the spoil we dug out. We didn’t use postcrete.

Snow hampered play a bit today. Undeterred we put in the side window and made the window framing for the front elevation and clad the left hand side. It looks a bit like a hot dog stand at the moment, but it will be unified with a smokey French blue, the interior will be white.

smokey French blue

Is your brother…

Not quite, though he is a creative type, he worked in advertising.

Amused to hear the perpetual winter gloom of Falkland get a mention.

Has the lomond tavern changed hands yet?

Nice shed btw

This little shed is going on forever!

The end is in sight Spongebob.

We got the rest of the cladding on and fitted the glass. The bench is almost an infinity bench, much more useful than an infinity pool. A door and the gutters will see me through. We’ll remove the green house where we had been string our tools and get the building painted. The interior and exterior spaces will be more clearly defined then.

It’s been a fun wee project, by the time the summer comes it will have mellowed into it’s surroundings.

So we would up the last couple of things today.

We made a door from the remainder of the flooring and hung the gutters.

It was fun to be making the last part of the shed in it. We used up all the salvaged glass and had the building been an inch longer we’d have run out of cladding. A serendipitous shed.

We need to relocate the green house where we had been storing our tools. Once it is all painted I’ll post up a completed pic.

Lovely job, I know you used a lot of reclaimed stuff but any idea of material costs for that?

Have a plain boring shed that would have a great view if it could be replaced with something like that!

Bravo!

The total cost for materials was £1200. That included everything except the side cladding, which may have added another £300 – £400.

If you have a view and security isn’t an issue the windows are a great addition. Who said a shed had to be dark?

Give it a go, you can custom build it to your needs and location.

Can you provide info/link on the roofing material please.
I really can’t stand the thought of using felt on mine, but pretty much all roofing solutions seem either extortionate or crap.

Thanks Mcmoonter. Think it will have to wait till next year with new sprog due in May but that is a very nice shed for that price.

Looking forward to seeing it painted and you sat having a cold beer on the verandah. Good job

mcm – top looking shed. love the braced door.

BTW, saw this and thought of you:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-French-Enamel-Art-Deco-Chappee-8007-Wood-Burner-Burning-Stove-Port-Hole-/130837235388?pt=UK_Antiques_Architecural_RL&hash=item1e7681c6bc

I don’t even have a garden let alone a shed.

That is incredible. Top work.

Can you provide info/link on the roofing material please.
I really can’t stand the thought of using felt on mine, but pretty much all roofing solutions seem either extortionate or crap.

It’s a square section steel sheet painted on both sides. I believe you can get it with insulation stuck to the underside, but we just went for the plain stuff. The shed is nineteen feet long and twelve feet wide. The roof has a shallow pitch to keep the overall height within building regs. The total cost for the roof, ridge and self tapping bolts was £285. We got the material from a small steel building manufacturer in Auchtertool if you are local. He had different profiles in different colours, some insulated some not. He even had some good recycled roofing.

What is the red stuff on the walls?

What is the red stuff on the walls?

It’s a bit random. The basement of my brother’s house had be remodeled into a gift shop. They had lined the walls with boarding, with 3x1s to cover each seam then painted it red. We were unsure what paint they used so we turned the boards around and reused the cover pieces on the exterior in case there were any paint reactions. The thinking being it would be better to apply fresh paint to the unpainted exterior boards.

Thanks re: roofing. I’ll look for a similar local supplier (peak district)

Edit: found somewhere local – plastic coated steel – £240 for 3.7x5m.
They also do a matching fibreglass rooflight profile.
Cheers for the pointer!

With crowd funding do you reckon we could gather together a collection big enough to fund a mcmoonter grand designs wooden house project which has to incorporate the mother of all bike maintenance area? Would make a cracking thread if nothing else.

Gotama,

I started this project because my brother had shed envy. Damn it all, his is better than any of mine. That wasn’t in the script.

On the plus side it’s now a proven design template for a studio / woodworking / fettling place that I’ve long needed. I had thought of building something high on posts, eight feet up to the floor. But I think that’s a bit sketchy now. I’ve got sixteen huge panes of laminated bus shelter glass and a south facing space near my big woodshed. It’s a bit more exposed than my brother’s garden so I think I could build something with a verandah between two glazed bays.

Once the spring comes and the snowdrops and daffodils have flowered I’ll draw out a sketch and see what’s possible….

Quick question.
Metal roof – how noisy in rain?
Would my neighbours (1m away from shed) be annoyed by the noise in the rain?

Noise? I wouldn’t worry about it. In fact I love the sound of rain on a tin roof. My croft in Orkney before I resulted it had a corrugated asbestos roof, I missed the sound of rain on it when it was slated.

Ta!

I reckon you should post some plans for us mere mortals who are planning to build a shed very soon, maybe not the same size, but the design looks great! 8)

and more pics? its like watching grand designs this (though without the pompous flounce-abouts you often get of course!)

I never ever really have drawn plans, just notions as to what I’d like. I found this shed today with the stoop filled with logs either side of the door way. I think that would make for a lovely entrance into a studio space, from the dark north side. The new shed spot is exposed to wind and I’m questioning the worth in building even a small stoop at the south facing side. Interior space is more important as it will be a studio workshop. It will have a view to the south so that side will be glazed, and in autumn and spring the sun sets in the west and the sunsets are spectacular so it would be worth having a window or two on that elevation.

Im keen to have a stove in it but worry about condensation forming under the tin in winter. How efficient are insulated sheets at preventing this? I’d probably insulate the walls and the voids under the floor boards too.

Meantime, my brother has sanded and varnished his shed floor and is busy painting the inside and outside. It looks much better with a unifying colour. When it’s done and we’ve moved the greenhouse I’ll post up a picture.

I can see the Sheds of STW being the Business Cards of American Psycho. “damn mcmoonter with his eggshell coloured interior and joinery grade joints”.

Great stuff mcm.

Is that £1200 trade costs or retail and is the height 2.5m?

Is that £1200 trade costs or retail and is the height 2.5m?

I got a bit of discount from the timber merchant but I don’t buy nearly enough to qualify for the full trade discount.

I think the maximum allowable height was 2.8m. We were pretty close to it. You can barely see the roofline past the boundary wall and Beech hedge, the neighbours garden has a high hedge too.

In other news, my brother got the interior of his shed painted and the floor varnished. He’s almost finished painting the outside too. The greenhouse has to go.

That is great looking. Needs a big comfy papasan chair and a wee table for a tipple.

Greenhouse removal day. It fitted perfectly in the trailer to be relocated at Moonter Towers.

The shed is fullfilling its brief as a steath garden tool store.

This is the anti-McMoonter: http://imgur.com/a/8w1xW

This is the anti-McMoonter: http://imgur.com/a/8w1xW

Haha, I was just about to ask what happened to this thread!

Four months later and it’s looking as if it’s been there for years.

very nice!
4 months later and mine still hasn’t got a roof 🙂

4 months later and mine still hasn’t got a roof

Still searching for a suitable roofing material? How is the floor standing up to the weather?