DIY Summerhouse Shed: Base & Frame Part 1 (Garden Room) | The Carpenter's Daughter

this week i'm going to show you how i built a very large summer house with my dad so keep on watching if you want to see how we did it okay so this summer house build starts off here where the old flower bed used to be and it was taking up a large chunk of the garden space and after ripping everything out my husband dug up all the top soil and wheelbarrowed it to what would later be a veg patch that'll be in another video and made that level meanwhile i was doing something else in the house which i've probably shared a video on that already and after laying some weed control down as you can see in the background i started making the base in sections but if you want to see me talk more in depth about some of these i'll leave a link to the shed video i did last autumn and when it comes to sheds my dad always makes the base first then works his way up and i'm making it using structural timber with spas evenly spaced out about 30 to 40 centimeters apart and my quality inspector also made sure i wasn't slacking and did my job properly then to make sure it's square me and my dad are checking the measurements diagonally to make sure it matched you'll find the side with the longest measurement needs tapping with a hammer or kicking to shorten it to make sure they're all equal then i was asked to cut some braces with 45 degree miter cuts it doesn't matter about the length of these and i'd pre-drill and screw those to each corner to ensure it stayed square then align it up with the first floor section clamping and getting it level on bricks to prevent it from rotting on the ground and my dad's using a straight piece of wood and a spirit level to check the longer sides but before we carried on my husband and i treated it with two coats on all sides before it started to rain then onto the following weekend and it was a scorcher and we worked on building the main body of the shed if you want to follow my written tutorial on this i'll leave a very detailed blog post below in the description and at this point my dad propped up the base on this makeshift table and what you'll notice is that he uses the base as a template and if you've made that square as me and my husband are checking again while both sections are together my dad builds all four sides of the shed while stacked up on top of the base and we're starting off with the back of the shed we placed a long structural piece of timber along the bottom making sure it was dead level at one end temporarily placed another structural timber against the first one and another long ways and drew under it where the end of the base lied and i marked p for pattern because that first cut i needed to match four times because if you keep matching your next cut you'll notice it probably gets bigger and bigger after that i started to nail the frame to the base to ensure it was square throughout i must admit i do prefer screwing the next frame down to the bottom one but since we're stacking it we couldn't do this then to screw more spars we mark them about every 19 inches on a 4.8 meter length [Applause] and align the top piece with our 19 inch marks before placing it in the middle to temporarily hammer it down in the middle of each spa to prevent movement now i'm about to create a pitch roof so we marked 1900 millimeter from the bottom for the lowest part of the roof then placed a large baton on the inside of the 1900 ml pencil line and angled it towards the center spa my dad said it was also a good idea to mark c for center on that center one to prevent confusion so after finding the center spa i lined it up with the opposite 1900 millimeter side and top of the center spot and drew on the inside where it lied on each spa i repeated it on the other side then cut along my pencil lines for an angled roof and to add a top piece we needed a miter cut to match the roof and i held one of the lengths up to the edge of the center spa and ran my saw along the straight edge which naturally created the mitre that we needed again repeated for the opposite side that way they could perfectly join together before pre-drilling and screwing them down to each spa [Music] but when i got to the overhang i just sawed those off then to remove that temporary spa that was keeping everything in line [Music] so that would be my next long side but this time i'll be making the front of the summer house i'm now nailing it to the frame in the first one and we're going to completely mirror it but this time screwing the top sloping roof section to the bottom roof section once we have the top and bottom matching i could line up another spa along the sides hold a straight edge against it and draw underneath where it lied to get my new cutting line and pre-drilled and screwed it together and more overhang cutting now before we fix the spars in this time we're working around where we wanted to fit the plastic windows and doors that meant we needed to measure the width and height of all of them to fit them in but we added about five mil to the measurements so it wouldn't be too tight so for the pair of doors we worked out the halfway point and split it equally along the bottom and positioned a long edge across to get the same equal measurement along the top something i wanted to point out although it may seem obvious to some of you is that it's cheaper to build around a second hand or x display door or window because buying something very specific is so much more expensive and after finding the position for the spas around the door pilot hold and screwed then i could carry on with the rest of the spas but leaving a gap for the two second-hand plastic windows to fit for these we put them in situ fitted some horizontal spars and extra supports around them [Music] the same needs to be done for the double door too and that's a front framework done next we needed to work on the sides so again i'm stacking and building as i go but this time i think it's around half of the front and back's width ensuring it matches what's left of our base we're planning around another small window and a gate style door for access which we'll make later and then finally to make the last side with no access and some easy straightforward spas like we did for the back my dad also asked me to make some more mitered cut corner braces using some off cuts which i fitted into the corners again to keep things square we're now working on the roof in two parts which we created with overhang here my dad is cutting a narrow piece for me to add dead level on the end which i screwed on again more matching the first one as we nailed the second half of the roof's frame down to the first and once that was mirrored we set those aside to get cladding the shed itself so obviously this is how it looks in the end but unfortunately i'm going to have to split it into two parts at least but if you've got any questions so far then feel free to comment below and hopefully i'll see you in the next one thanks for watching bye

Channel: The Carpenter's Daughter - Vikkie Lee

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Length: 9min 11sec (551 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2020