Build a Simple, Inexpensive, Outdoor Storage Shed with Basic Hand Power Tools.

welcome back to worth the effort woodworking and it has become painfully obvious that my dad and i need an outdoor storage shed for a lot of the garden equipment and some excess storage especially with long rough boards and stuff like that we have had a 10 by 10 tint set up out back and that seems to be about the right size for our needs but why not go bigger if it doesn't cost that much more and going bigger doesn't really increase the labor cost that much too especially since we're the labor now we did go price some eight by 12 sheds at some of the big box stores and a very consistent price for the most bare bones we're talking no windows no fancy roof just a solid roof and stuff like that the kits that they were selling were about twelve hundred fifty dollars that seemed outrageously expensive to me granted it is covered money and lumber prices have just skyrocketed but looking at the numbers looking at simple designs based on you know how people have been building these forever we thought we could do a lot better job get a lot better storage shed and spend a lot less money so come along as over this weekend we tried to build us a little garden storage shed now for the foundation we're just going to use these conch creep pyramids instead of 4x4 on that one in order to get it level this part of the country we're actually sitting on just a few inches of dirt right on top of limestone but in other periods of country for this amount of weight you might want to dig down a little bit we don't have any frost line here in texas so this will be the simplest thing for us to do also the cheapest now the general ideal for the floor that's going to go on those foundations because each one of those blocks is going to be at a different elevation is we have 4x4 piers and we're going to use these simpsons corner ties in order to create a level platform and basically they just drop down on the four by fours in our two by four material which we're going to be using two by eights for the outside perimeter and two by sixes for the floor joists well they'll just drop down in here and that way we can get a very level floor inexpensively these are ones that i took off of the no skill workbench but you can buy a set of eight of these for about 50 60 bucks now our particular design we're trying to maximize full sheet goods and not buy extra sheet goods so that the floor plan floor print is going to be 15 feet by seven and a half feet the it's going to go up to a roof of only eight feet high and we're gonna have it tapered down to seven feet for the rain runoff that way we can use full sheet goods on top and have about six inches of overhang on the two sides in the front for the rain using full sheet goods yes we're going to cut sheet goods down on the floor but that's a most cost effective way of doing it now getting this frame level was our biggest concern because you know we don't do this every day so what dad came up with a good idea where we started at that corner because that's the highest corner on the elevation set that about where we were that was a guesstimate and then you saw us level it off the corners level it out this way install this one and hope it was perfect which it just happened to be so now that we got the frame we can screw in all the screws around here because all we really did was put one screw in each corner just to get it set so we can make adjustment very easily and then we'll do the floor joist uh tomorrow after we've got all those screws in it's time to square it up okay just lifting and moving 191 and a half [Music] 92. fine-tuned that's perfect now okay it's perfect re-measure it that's all okay 191 in seven three-quarters no no go back convention again i screwed up i i was you over here now we are going to be using two by sixes for our joy simply because it's a little bit less money than the two by eights and this is a shed after all it doesn't have to support that much weight and if it survives 20 years we'll be happy we're going to be installing them with traditional nail techniques and we also have a bunch of leftover joist hangers from when they built the build the buildings so we'll be using up all of those too and i'm going to be doing a few techniques that i don't see a lot of other people do when they do these kinds of floors for the simple reason i'm planning on my incompetence and i want to give us the best success for having a floor that doesn't work like a trampoline the first thing thing to notice is the perimeter boards the 2x8 while they i did pick them out dead flat one of them had a slight bow to it and i want to eliminate that bow so that the sheet good will sit flat so i'm going to be taking the measurements from the inside of both of those making sure they're the same which they are i'm going to cut all the joists to that so that we can flex that board back in to alignment so now that we got them all cut we got to figure out where we want to place the joists and because we're going to be using sheet goods for our flooring material we want to make sure at least we get something on the 48 inches so that we can have a good solid place to nail it now again in planning for my own incompetence a pro you know they'll just put one joist on there and plan on putting a sheet good perfectly halfway on to have enough material i'm not that good so at the 48 minute march i'm going to double up on the joy so i have a full 2x4 to get good solid anchor that way if i'm a little bit off planning competence the other thing is you want to do it evenly divided so 48 divides into 16 and 12 because we're trying to save money and this is only a shed we're gonna go with uh the 16. now our structure is a little bit smaller than the uh sheet goods a 4x8 sheet good on the bottom because we were prioritizing using full sheet goods on the roof hence we are going to have to trim off the sheet goods after we do it our frame is 15 feet long and seven and a half feet wide so if sheet goods are going this way we had a choice we could either start at the center and work our way out and cut off a little bit on both ends or just go one direction only cut off one end since we're lazy we want one cut is less than two cuts we're starting at one end so what i'm doing is i'm coming out to 48 inches and i'm gonna put an x everywhere i want a two by four to go so i'm gonna have one two by four joist on this side one on that side to give me a good anchor for that sheet good and then every 16 inches after that which my tape measure was kind enough to mark in red i will simply put the the x right in the middle to tell me that i want to line this 2x4 up on the center of the 2x4 these are not professional contractors it just makes some sense for me and as long as i'm consistent i'll know what i'm doing now with the idea that neither one of us do this day in day out we could be somewhat incompetent at certain skill based aspects of that one and i'm sure a pro they would just stick their joists back there and nail it down no questions but i definitely want to make sure that all my legs are perfectly level with this outside so that there's no humps in the floor so we left one board slightly longer and if i line it up with that line so it's halfway across where that joist needs to be clamp that down i know for a fact that i cannot come up higher than this joist and because when we picked these out we made sure to get straight once not necessarily they could have been cut but we wanted them dead flat well if i just simply bump it up against this board putting half of it underneath i now have no excuse for not having a level floor again planning for incompetence now as you gain confidence i'm sure you could just hold it nail it right now i don't have to worry about that one i just had to drop a few nails in now that we've got all these temporary nailed up we're going to go ahead and put on our joist hangers and these just give you nail holes and support underneath but they all have these little quick tabs right here so what you can do is you can come over bottom it out and then just tap it in then squeeze it tight on the other side and do the same thing and it'll stay there do all those and then you just come in and put nails in every single spot you can now when you go back and nail them in you need to make sure you're using galvanized nails and you actually have to have two different sizes of nails one in a half or one and a quarters to anchor them to the two by four two by material and then different ones because you're putting them in that at a dovetail when you're coming in at this direction so just get the right size nails so with that all done now we can put the center support to keep this level on the concrete blocks do it after the fact that we we didn't have to line it all up in the beginning and while dad's figuring out how to do that one i'm gonna saw off the corners [Music] so ah [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ah one hey 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the walls are kind of the same situation the sheet goods we are going to be buying are 4x8 it's t111 okay if i were to make that back wall a perfect eight feet high well then the sheet good would end right at our floor which means rain running running down that wall would get the floor wet and the top of the joist wet i would rather much rather have the sheet could extend down quite a ways so that the water will run off and won't won't get the top of the boards wet if the bottom of the boards get a little wet i'm not too concerned about it it's a solid material it can get wet and dry wet and dry and still be viable as long as it fully dries fairly often and we are in texas so it will dry out so the idea is we are going to build the back wall at seven and a half feet with one bottom plate and one top plate do the front wall a foot shorter than that and then when we add a second top plate to lock it all together that will give us about seven and seven feet eight inches or so on the back wall thus giving us a good what is that four inches past our top plate for the side to extend i think that'll be good enough that also means our floor is the perfect template for that back wall we just need to build a wall that fits this square ride it up and then build a second wall a foot shorter same position write that up don't really have to do too much measurement that way so our first step is to cut down these 16 foot boards to the length of our platform and then mark out where all the studs need to be so come on foreign hey and just like that in less than 10 minutes we pretty much got one wall done just got to write it up and square it up now dad put two nails into each one of these after we get it upright we'll go ahead and toenail some of them in all the way around after it's upright but when we're putting it upright we want to make sure it's square but we also want to be able to get the other wall up so here's a trick take a small piece like this and go ahead and staple it down because you're going to have your brace that's going to die go diagonal that way it's just a quarter of an inch away so the other wall can slide up inside it otherwise there's a chance you'll bind as you're moving up and why make it harder on yourself also to prevent it from slipping off as you lift it up go ahead and nail some braces prevent it from sliding off [Music] uh [Music] uh after all that rinse and repeat now when we do the bracing on this side i don't have to put that second piece there because we're just lifting it up here's that clarification that sacrificial piece that just got this one out just allowed me enough clearance to move this if it was right up against that we would have a lot of stitching there and trust me i'm not strong enough to lift this wall with a lot of stitching [Music] now when we did a test of how high to make this one we did decide to drop it down another six inches another six inches just to increase the slope but that still left it higher than either one of us are tall so we won't be hitting our heads on the roof it'll just be a little bit lower but it is just a shed now that left us a problem for the walls on this side and that side because every single stud has got to be a different height not only that it's got a having very exact angle on top and because i'm too lazy to do the math we're going to play around with the trick that i haven't seen other people do but i think it'll work so what i've done is i've cut two boards i just took measurements directly from the piece using a pencil with this bottom plate that's going to sit down there and it fits really snug right on that edge in between those just as it would be if we were riding up a wall i've got another piece that actually goes from the outside of the board to the outside of the board on the other side at this bottom section so if i raise it up i know that these two sides will be parallel if i nail them to the top plate here and level over across that way that's going to lock these two sides parallel so i can do my angle trick so with the addition of that base plate that kept that bottom section perfectly aligned and this one right here that makes the the walls parallel i'm just going to put a random board up here doesn't matter what angle it is it's just a matter of toenailing it the bases down where they should be here and temporarily tacking it up there keep in mind i am not nailing it down to this board yet i'm not nailing the baseboard down yet then i'm light tack it up here so now to get that angle perfect i've got a long board i'm just going to kind of rest it right here i'm going to temporarily nail it on either corner or actually just one now with that riding on top of the building i actually need the top plate to be an inch and a half down which when they design these things this edge right here is exactly an inch and a half from the blade so all i really need to do now is run this right along that to capture my angle and my height but because the saw blade because the kerf didn't go all the way through just finish off with a hand saw easy peasy ignore the miscut now we can take this temporary one off guess what it becomes my top plate i'm just going to take measurements directly off of the piece and cut them by hand find yourself a workbench establish your angle first and all i'm doing is looking straight down the blade along that pencil line easy peasy better this is quicker than setting up a power tool for one cut at least and with that we have ourselves a custom fit top plate perfectly sized so not only did it capture the angle to the other side of this tie before that's a line right there too way to go so how do we do the other side but first we need to get the very side pieces which we couldn't do in that design so we just laid up a board take a measurement we got the two angles the measurement cut that by hand uh so [Music] uh oh with that off comes the bracing and with that the last bit of framing we need to do for the walls is a secondary top plate to connect them all the way around to connect one wall to the other up top now speaking of sheathing that's what we're going to put on next before the roof for the simple reason i want my roof rafters to hit right on top of that sheathing aspect so that before i put that in i can put a drip rail and it will it'll all work together that way all right so we're going to get the sheathing up now here's my problem i cannot see that top section right there and on this back wall which is at eight our tallest wall i need it to be flush up there so you notice i put some temporary stops up there so just like earlier before all i have to do now is shove it up up there and i know it will be dead flush up top and then dad can nail it down here while uh to hold it on and i'll just go get another sheet so we'll just move our way around but i also have to be on those two things up the top i know push it up in there so before you nail it just make sure we just up top and on the sides okay i'm all right now okay are you flush i'm flush here i just wear my before i'm knitting my blood perfect uh okay now this backside was a more difficult one because again i had to get it flush up top but once i did that one i've now established my gap from underneath here so all the way around i can now just put braces on this nail that in there and i can just set these on top of it this distance above it because i'm going to have to cut off the top anyways on the rest of it because they're all taller the sheets are all taller than the rest of the shed uh all right and while dad's framing up the door i'm going to go ahead and put a drip edge along the top right there it just added security i don't think it's absolutely necessary because we're going to be doing a second drip edge once we get the roof on i lost the footage on the other side but basically it was the same exact thing we did on that side we had cleats on the bottom we rested it we lighted it up we nailed it down i then went down and put the circular saw on top and just cut that angle down which means it's an inch and a half too big but that'll be easy for me to correct a little bit later on for the door side we're actually going to do the same thing we're going to lay clean down the baseline we're going to write up one of the boards nail it down and then we're going to cut out this opening with the jigsaw then we'll do this exact same thing to the other side write it up cut out the door opening with the jigsaw that way we'll have two pieces that we can make a door with that not only will be the same siding but they will line up perfectly with the grooves [Applause] one two three [Music] hey [Music] so [Music] tap a door so [Music] now for the roof we created one master template and dad is out cutting these all to the exact the same one of them has this little cutout that's going to fit on that top rafter up there and the other side is just a little angle so it will sit flush on it so what we can do is drop this on here drop that on there i will toenail them in and then after the fact we'll go back with these hurricane straps which will permanently attach those to the wall right there then we can start adding on the plywood for the top [Applause] [Music] ah so today is the beginning of day five on this project for us now understand this is probably a two to three day project for most of y'all we only spend about half of every day working on this the rest of the time we would go get supplies or i would be filming you know having him stop so i could rearrange the camera we can work out what we were saying and then i was editing so you know a half day for us is pretty good with all that i'm doing behind the scenes and today all that's really left to do is dad is going to install these hurricane hinges which you nail here and you nail here and that kind of further locks that on the roof on i am then going to put on the fascia board up here throw on some plywood throw on a drip rail put on some guitar paper and then we'll put the roofing material now while the sky right now might be deceptively sunny we are kind of fighting the weather right now in about three hours a major storm is coming through and it's going to be raining for three or four days so instead of explaining all those steps which i think are kind of self-explanatory i'm just going to set up a time lapse on this one and y'all can watch us get it done [Music] well that's it the rain came in we got the tar paper on the roof so we're going to call that done and i'm going to wrap up this video there because really all that's left is putting on the roofing material and making the door maybe we'll do the door in a future video but we got the overall structure done and we spent i want to say about twelve hundred twelve hundred fifty dollars now that is outrageously expensive for what you have but please understand this is the end of 2020 and these are covid prices we were paying almost 40 dollars for those t111s and those are generally what about 12 to 15 osb is selling for almost 30 bucks right now and i know last year that was selling for less than 10. we were paying five dollars for those two by fours so you know just oppose what current prices for lumber are as to what it will cost you i really do think this is a 500 in material kind of shed and we way over built from what we did a reminder here's a picture of one of those 1250 dollar kits that we still had to put together from the big box store quality wise there's a big difference well i hope you enjoyed this learned a little few tricks and stuff like that after we get some of this outdoor stuff in here i can come up and finish up in the shop and we'll do a shop tour telling you all about our 2020 goals along the same time so y'all be safe have fun and remember it's always worth the effort to learn create share with others see ya

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Published: Sat Jan 02 2021