How to build a storage shed - Floor | Part 1

hi everybody thanks for coming back to your diy i appreciate it so i just finished building the floor for my future shed here it's 10 feet wide eight feet deep it's going to be something anybody can build i know there's a lot of shed videos on youtube but this is going to be the way i build mine it's very limited tools build because i built pretty much everything with nothing more than my circular saw and my impact drill and a tape measure and a square if you want to count those two i will have a materials list for this guy linked as well so check that out as soon as i can but for now let's jump into it so just a quick little psa before we get into this guy there are multiple ways to build a shed there's multiple roof patterns there's multiple footprints and there's multiple laws and bylaws that might govern your area so go ahead and check with your local municipality check any laws or bylaws or rules that you might have to follow now don't be scared of those those are just in place city rules things like that that doesn't mean you can't build this shed yourself also there's multiple ways to fasten a shed to the ground in my case today we're doing a floating shed now this is something that may not be legal everywhere especially in hurricane or tornado prone areas so go like i said go ahead and check those laws i'm allowed to do a floating shed here so that's what i'm doing but if you're not if you have to drill anchors poles piles anything like that if you have to strap it definitely like i said go ahead and follow those bylaws i looked at potentially drilling piles and stuff and mounting my shed on that but in my case i have a frost layer of six and a half feet that means i'd have to go down minimum eight eight and a half feet so i'd have to have ten foot posts just just to get them coming out of the ground far enough that it's not worth it the amount of concrete money time effort that that would take is unreal for me i live in a very cold climate most of the year so it's just not feasible for me floating decks the way or floating shed is the way to go well now that we've decided to actually build a shed hopefully you've already got a spot ready to go for your shed then you're going to be happy with the living there for the next umpteen dozen years so the first thing obviously is just to prep it get any debris sticks leaves anything like that out of the way and a relatively flat level spot would be obviously ideal because it's less work for you now the shed we're building can go uh directly on a rock foundation we're gonna be building this on timber skids so if you don't already have a rock foundation like i do here um you're gonna need to bring in some stone and then level it all out i used to have a play structure here at one point the previous owner had already brought in rocks so i figured this is the perfect spot now once i've raked everything out level i'm just using my timbers to double check and make sure that everything is flat as i go i'm double checking it both directions my length and my width as i go just to make sure that everything is all perfectly flat and level and go along and set your timbers down and then double check your timbers as well in relation to each other now take your time you guys and make sure that this is perfect before moving on this is your foundation after all so the better set up your foundation is the easier the rest of the shed is going to be to line up and square up as we move forward all right so now that i have all of my beams my skids whatever you want to call them leveled side to side as well as front to back with each other and they're pretty much sitting where they're going to stay now i have to cut down all of my floor joists so my rim joists front and back are actually going to be my 10 foot boards but my shed is going to be 10 by 8 so i have to take some material off of my floor joists because they're going to fit inside of my rim joists i also have to take off the material my front and back sheeting material because i don't want it to come up short i want them to basically butt up flush with each other so in order to do that i have to take off one inch front uh combined so half inch front and back of my sheeting material then i also have to take off three inches because i'm using two by fours in the front and back so i have to take off a total of four inches of all of my center floor joists okay now before everybody starts freaking out and losing their mind on me about the fact that i'm only using two by fours for my base it's because i'm using three timbers underneath my floor so i've got that center one to carry the load i can get away with it i only plan on putting lightweight stuff in my shed so it's fine but if i was gonna skip that center timber and only use my outside two timbers i would bump it up to a two by six to help carry the load and if i was putting really heavy stuff in here like a riding lawnmower i may even bump it up to 2x8 so now obviously each rim joist is going to get a floor joist at each end that's that's just a gimmicks so we're going to put an x on each end now what you're going to do is take your tape measure and we're going to pull it out and you'll notice at least on mine and other good framing tape measures yours may have it too take a look for it your 16 inch your 32 inch every one of those is actually going to have a red square around it that's just going to be easy for your framing now what you're going to want to do is basically go 16 and three quarters of an inch make a mark and what we're going to do is put an x on this side of the mark that's just going to tell me this is the side of my mark that i want my two by four joists on and that's going to keep me 16 inches on center all the way down so this way when we get to our 48 inch mark my end sheet of flooring plywood is actually going to end up on my 48 inch mark dead center so that way my second piece of plywood can actually lap on right beside it and they'll both be sitting on a joist so i can fasten my screws to there now we can mark for the rest of our joists now continue that methodology the entire way down on all of your 16 inch interval marks mark three quarters of an inch past that and then your x on the back side of it that way your x is going to land at your 16 inch on center interval mark now when you get to the end like this you may come up a little bit short and not actually have 16 inches that's fine doesn't matter don't try and stretch it and just go and put one at the end make sure you still follow your marks put one there and then put one at the end as well it doesn't matter again we want to make sure all our building materials are going to fit properly so we can't stretch that we have to put a stick here too then before you move anything transfer all of your framing marks from one rim joist to the other using your speed square and a pencil this will just ensure that everything stays perfectly lined up then once you've got all your marks transferred literally pick it up and walk it over to the other side where it's going to sit without turning it around that way you know all your measurements are still in line and then you can just start laying all your sticks in between for your floor joists temporarily just so everything is just sort of set in place now with all the boards sitting approximately where they're going to stay now we have to crown the boards now what that means is each board that you look at is actually going to have a natural bow to it either up or down one or the other so you want to make sure that you have the crown up in this case so we want to stare down the end of the board you may have to roll it over if you have one that looks pretty laser straight if you break out that old calibrated eyeball you will notice that very slightly there will be a crown some are definitely going to be more pronounced than others but you want to look down the board and make sure that you find the crown and you want to bow it up the reason we want to make sure they're all up is if we don't crown the boards first of all you're going to have some that are going to be crowned up some that'll be crowned down and your floor is actually going to end up pretty wobbly the whole way across we don't want that also if you put the crown down it's going to lend the floor to be more spongy over time whereas if we put the crown up you're going to push against the board and it's going to be a lot more sturdy over time a good little tip is when you're crowning them if you crown them before you lay them all in place or if you crown them when they're still in the pile before you even set them down a good little tip is once they're crowned make an arrow pointing up so that way you know which sides crown up i don't know how well you might see it on camera but this guy has his crown up right now it's ever so slight one thing to keep in mind too is when we're doing our flooring here my four by fours and my two by fours are all pressure treated that way they can be rated to be outside in contact with the weather water things like that and they're not going to rot another thing when you go to fasten these guys together if you're using nails you want to make sure you use hot dip galvanized nails that way they're not going to rust going into the pressure treating and the chemicals aren't going to eat them if you're going to use screws and a impact like i am just to make things easier you want to make sure you use a coated treated screw so that way again they won't rust over time going into the pressure treated lumber now when you're doing any kind of framing you want to make sure you have enough fasteners in your board easy way to do that is in my case i'm using a two by four i know it's only three and a half inches but it's a two by four you want two screws per every two inches or one screw for every two inches so in this case i got a two by four so i need two two screws if you're using two by six it's three two by eight it's four and so on and so forth you also typically want to use a screw that's twice the length of what you're going through so in my case i got an inch and a half so i need to use three inch screws just pull your board in place line it up with your mark make sure you're flush on top with our entire floor joist assembly here now fastened together the last thing we need to do is square the entire thing up the easiest way to do it is just measure across the entire thing diagonally corner to corner bump it over sideways until both measurements eventually come up identical our next step is going to be to fasten our floor joists to our timbers now the outside ones are easy but our center one i need to find center on my outside two floor joists and that will tell me exactly where my middle timber needs to sit alrighty floor is built squared level it's all good ready to rock now it's going to attach it to our beams so i've got these small little angle brackets here these are structural angle brackets there's four holes on each side so i'm just going to go ahead and i'm going to use these and i'm going to use some screws to attach these now again you can use the same galvanized framing nails i've just got some screws i've got some small little inch and a quarter coated screws so i'm going to use those i'm going to put one in each corner one in the middle and then one in each corner of the center beam now before you start screwing this guy down all excited like make sure that your 2x4 rim joist is flush with the front and the side of your 4x4 post that we're setting this on once they are then you can go ahead and attach all of your screws now make sure to put a screw in every one of these holes you guys they are structural brackets and they're designed to sort of spread the load out so just make sure to put one in every one for our center floor joist however to the middle beam it's pretty simple i'm just taking my three inch screws and just toe nailing them in one on each side to get the screws started kind of started a few turns horizontally like this and then sort of digs itself a groove and then you can kick it up at a 45 degree angle and it's a lot less likely to walk on you that way now with our flooring structure all complete now we need something to actually walk on so for that we're going to use three quarter inch tongue and groove osb plywood this is exactly as it sounds on each of the long sides there's a tongue on one end and a groove on the other we're going to start off by laying it along the back wall first in the corner we pulled all our measurements from for our floor joists in my case it's the back right side here we want our tongue side of the plywood facing forward and our back side of the plywood having the groove now we can fasten this guy down so start on the outside corner again just flush it up with your floor joist and then pin that one down with an inch and a half long screw go to the opposite back corner and pin that one down and then you can screw down the entire back wall after that but don't add any up the front or the center yet because that'll just leave us some wiggle room to lock the pieces of plywood together later on but if you're worried about wondering how to find the floor joists later if you notice the top side of this osb has lines where every single floor joist lands so it's perfectly easy and simple later once you've got the whole floor covered to tell where your floor joists are now we can add our second piece of flooring on the front now if you notice i'm staggering my joints so i'm adding this guy slightly to the left i'm also making sure it's only covering half of the joist that i'm laying it on and that's so the next piece of plywood can lap beside that guy and they can share that joist now this is the reason we didn't screw together the front of the plywood and that's so there's some wiggle room so we can sort of get that tongue and groove joint fitting together nice and tightly now we need to cut the little piece to fit in our front corner and i'm just using some two by fours that i've got for the walls as well as the actual floor of the shed as a table and if you notice i can cut right along one of my joist line marks on the osb plywood and again this is all coming back to all of your materials working together if we stick to these 16 inch measurements slide the tongue and groove together and everything should fit beautifully then do the exact same thing for the opposite corner i just cut this one off camera now we've still got a couple more cuts to make so just to stop everything from moving around on me i'm adding a few screws around the outsides of the new pieces of plywood that i've laid down for the far side piece of our flooring i'm literally just lining up my square with the bottom side floor joist and just tracing a line and cutting that off free-handed with my circular saw because this will be covered later if your cut isn't perfectly straight don't worry about it you're never going to see it anyway cutting the front's a bit of a different story because it's such a long cut you could just snap a chalk line along the entire front edge flush with your floor joist but for myself i just measured the actual overhang that i had and i referenced that next to my circular saw measurement system on the front of my guide and literally just ran my measurement along the edge of the plywood and that told me exactly where the blade needed to go and this is the reason we don't want to set our blade too deep because it's just deep enough that even if you get into your 2x4 it's not going to damage it and then all we've got to do is add a bunch of screws to the entire center of our floor here now go ahead around the entire perimeter add some add some into the corners of each set of plywood and you'll notice like i said before all of these lines on the osb make it super simple to tell where your joists are so it doesn't matter what you're doing add a screw every 16 inches length ways and width ways up the joists and you will have a rock sturdy floor once you're all finished and there it is you guys sit back relax take a breather you guys accomplished something awesome here we have a super strong sturdy shed foundation ready for the walls to go up now as i finish the rest of the videos in this series i'll have them linked down below but i hope you guys like this video i hope you guys build this one if you did thumbs up and subscribe down below i'd really appreciate it and i will see you guys in the next one thanks for stopping by

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Id: FD0_2aO_3so

Length: 16min 36sec (996 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 21 2021