You Can Build Your Own Storage Shed! We'll show you how.

so you need a shed and you think you can save money by building one yourself well you've come to the right place so this is a shed we're building I call it a loft shed and you'll see in a moment why but it features a front door with two windows and a roll-up door on the left hand side that's going to be used like a garage door for bringing in the tractor and it's going to be 2x6 framing on the floor that's going to go pressure treated right against the ground and shingles on the roof and so it's going to be a really fun project and if I strip away the exterior you'll be able to see why I call it a loft shed because it features these two huge Lofts on both sides and they are plenty high enough at least for everybody in my family so it's going to provide them with a lot of great storage and maximize the space so that they can get use of their garages going forward we're building the shed directly on the gravel base with no space for animals to Nest underneath it after rough leveling we started by cutting the two long Rim joists first all right that's the center I like to find the center and mark the locations of the joist from the center towards the ends the only disadvantage of building directly on the ground is airflow although the framing is pressure treated and it can come in contact with the ground we use non-pressure treated exterior grade plywood because it's safer for kids so we decided it would be best to vent excess moisture that could cause mold or rot the floor I got these stainless steel vents on Amazon and they have little barbs to hold them in place I also bought a two pack of 53 millimeter hole saws to drill the holes we installed the vent at both ends of each joist cavity so they'll have plenty of fresh air flow under the floor [Music] the joister space 16 inches on Center except for the outer two which will be flush with the ends yeah I know the stones aren't perfectly level at this point we'll tweak them later before putting on the plywood I nailed each joist with three long nails in through the rim joist I really recommend a framing nailer for this project especially because I suck at nailing it'll be completely supported by the stone so there's no need for joist hangers here we didn't attach the shed to the ground this may not work in Tornado Alley but the thousands of pounds of materials and contents will definitely stay put in New Jersey we're not worried oh man 237 and three quarters good enough for government work with the base square and reasonably level we installed three-quarter thick sheets of plywood starting from the center and working outwards staggering the joints is that it yep okay nice and tight the base is a little less than 16 feet long so we trimmed all the sheets to fit we use that same framing nailer this time with two inch ring shank coated galvanized nails to nail down the plywood foreign now that the floor is done we are going to assemble the walls and we are starting with the back wall because that one has no Cuts in it and it's nice and big it's a good idea to always Crown your boards up and what that means is you're looking for the natural curve of the wood and just make that to the top so they're all consistent all right we're building the walls right here on the deck and we're using t11 siding because it is not only plywood which is sturdy but it also takes a nice paint job and you don't have to do anything else and the way this works is they just overlap a little bit they don't butt right up against each other so you can see the grooves here when you put them together I'll show you over here you can see it just leaves a Groove and you can't really tell where the seams are and they're 48 inches wide and my studs are 24 so I have a stud every seam as well as right in the middle you can see the nails there and we left it long on the bottom and we're going to snap a line and cut that to the length that we need it to be so they're all the same exact length [Music] so what we did is we left a two inch overhang on the bottom plate and that way it hangs over just our plywood and about an inch and a quarter onto the that two by six there so it doesn't block those vents but that way any water that hits it will come down won't go underneath you always want it to overlap next up will be the front wheel that one has a window and a door in it so that's the first thing I did was Mark those and what we did first is we crowned them so that both of them are curved up if there is a curve to it and then we marked from the center I found the very center of the boards because I the way I designed it the design always starts from the middle you find the center and then I went 24 inches out and I made marks evenly so that I can we'll know where to nail the studs foreign [Music] [Music] all right that's the pattern [Applause] take out our siding nails [Music] put in the longer ones [Applause] fastest way to build a wall do it away grab good good very that way even if the boards aren't perfectly straight you get a nice straight cut when we're done to build the header we put two two by sixes cut the right width and then we're just using scraps of t11 in between them to create like a kind of a sandwich so it's the right thickness all right put that one on top we're going to even it up we're gonna nail it those are called the Jack studs because they hold up now you can put that Let's test fit everything together the air comes out of the top just every foot [Music] look at you like and I did a whole wood floor I think I know what I'm doing give me the muscles guys Rosie the Riveter yeah that's it okay this is the side that obviously has the roll-up door so that's a big five foot wide opening we didn't waste a full piece of siding for that so we just cut this piece for the top now this last piece in order to get it straight it's going to be even there and down here we just put a little piece of scrap just as a spacer now that the walls are completely built we turned our attention to the rafters now the rafters consist of a miter at the top that makes it sit flat against the ridge and then another miter at the bottom but also a a 90 degree cut from that that forms a rafter tail where I will attach the soffit and then a bird's mouth they call it which is a notch that sits against the top of the wall and here you can see how the bird's mouth is that Notch it fits in there and that's what the rafter looks like and what we've done is we have created the first two rafters and this is simulating what the ridge is going to be the whole length of the the shed and this is what I'll call just a ridge support it's going to come from the wall of course the wall is going to be up here once it's once it's built but this simulates what we're talking about here so that's the ridge height off of the top of the wall and then we've got the two rafters fit right together like that and that's what we're looking for now we've got a pattern and we can just cut the rest of them [Music] raise it oh gosh I missed a lot of men okay my slide's good all right [Laughter] [Music] the plywood makes the walls really heavy so if you don't have any extra help like this you could always choose to put the plywood on after the fact and then you could assemble the shed with just two people bring it up right now push hang on hold on it's got to come to the outside though Pete it overlaps good hang on hang on [Music] there we go when you pre-build your walls like this and you do your best to make them Square they should be level and Plum when you put them together and if they're not it's just a shed it really doesn't matter it's more important that they fit okay is the wire's still through all right keep pulling the wire hold on put your on feet you got it there we go look at that just like we planned it [Music] you gotta push that in no as long as they fit in between I don't care okay that's okay we're gonna push that wallet okay do that now oh there you go I got it that's why no more bullets well what do you know no more bullets we have a shed yeah we said all right that'll do that'll do that'll do dunk it that'll do I want to get a lot or hold it out there I don't know yeah the backfire that was good you want your hat foreign the rafters like this it's best to attach them at the bottom and then attach them at the Ridge and you can see sometimes they sag a little bit so I had Josh go outside and actually push on the outside wall and that brings it in a little bit closer to make them fit perfectly that's your that's that's the height of your lock and so you can walk underneath it no nice and then we're going to put an eight footer between the two now you don't want it sticking up over the top yeah that's that's the important part Julie can you tell us to look pretty level all right foreign here you can see I'm installing a galvanized Z flashing and what this does is it makes sure that water that hits that top piece of plywood on the Gable it won't absorb into the piece that's below it it will actually come out on the outside so it will help the wall last even longer [Music] oh hopefully you can see this there is a little clip that goes between the plywood pieces can you reach the next one put them right in the middle beautiful now unfortunately they do leave a little bit of space you can see the sunlight through there but that's not a big deal we're going to put tar paper on and shingles and everything's going to be nice and tight then after everything was nailed together we went back with a reciprocating saw to remove the bottom plate from the doorways you may think you could save a little money by using shortered lumber on each side of the doorway but this is the best way to do it we should have cut the full width of the roll-up door while the wall was on the ground and it would have been much easier instead I had to Mark and cut the opening vertically and get showered with sawdust in the process after the doorway was the right size I could remove the bottom plate there as well [Music] but the round blade on the circular saw doesn't cut all the way into the corners so I had to use the reciprocating saw to finish the job honey I'm home [Music] here you go there we go all right let's go it stays voila you're in front of the camera thumbnail yeah right now let's talk about the soffits I designed the roof to overhang the front and back of the shed by about eight inches although this is mainly for Aesthetics it also keeps water away from the building if you don't want to bother with gutters we cut the rafters to extend beyond the bird's mouth into a rafter tail and that gave me a place to nail the fascia boards and attach the soffits the challenge was we had nothing to attach the back of the soffit near the building so because we have a table saw we rip some of our scrap two by fours at 14 degrees to make spacer blocks for each rafter we cut scraps of t11 siding used for our soffits the only lesson learned is that the seams need to match the sheets on the walls otherwise you'll have a hard time matching the lines from the soffits to the walls warming up I'm struggling in this clip because the wall started with a half sheet so the wall seam is here I started with a full piece on the soffits so the seams don't line up anyway I wound up having to rip it all down and start over but in the end you'd never know also as I was editing this video I realized it would have been a lot easier to nail blocks to the rafters instead of doing all those beveled cuts on the table saw so if you build a shed like this don't make my same mistakes next came the trim which was all done using 1x4 pine boards the fascia boards went up first and they were nailed to the rafter tails now I'll eventually be attaching gutters here so I nailed them with the framing nailer for strength and because the nails would be hidden The Rake boards on The Gables were mitered at 14 degrees to match the roof pitch we used a finish nailer here so the nails would be less visible they're covered with Cue boards with one of them mitered at 14 degrees to fit against the rake I initially nailed the boards together at the top and the bottom and I marked the length then I finished nailing them the whole way down and cut them both at the same time with the miter saw then I bring that whole assembly back and attach it with finish nails all right we're going to fast forward a little bit so just ignore the fact that the shed is already painted but when I put this trim on and the top trim it creates this bare spot here next to the soffit and in some of the sides it's actually big enough for um you know wasps and and other Critters to get in there so we want to prevent that and so what I did is I cut little wedges that are just going to fit right there like that they'll get painted the trim color and you'll never notice [Music] now t11 siding is really rough so I wanted to Prime the shed with a spray gun but let me tell you spraying makes a mess so that's why we primed it before installing the roof shingles we are installing now is cheap insurance these things they are hurricane ties we don't get a lot of hurricanes here in New Jersey but we do get some so they just go on and what they do is they tie the wall framing to or I should say they tie the rafters to the wall framing and then that way you know big wind won't pull the roof off hold it down I hate going down there I'm looking down on Shrek I'm looking down foreign because of the insane prices of building materials in the summer of 2021 I was very tempted to use metal roofing on this shed but I decided to stick with asphalt because it matches the house and I'd done shingling before I never installed a metal roof and although it doesn't look very difficult it would have taken more time to figure it out and order the materials so I just played it safe and I ordered the asphalt shingles with the rest of the building materials first a drip edge at the bottom then the tar paper then the drip edge up the side covers the edge of the tar paper then the starter course of shingles at the bottom followed by the starter course up the side and finally the book of six shingles goes on before we can start adding the full ones while Josh and I worked on the roof Julie her mom and Aunt Kathy applied the first coat of paint on the siding using brushes and a thick nap roller it definitely needed the second coat too so this drip edge which goes on the rake board the rake board is the the one on the Gable I used one piece and I cut it so that it's kind of straight and it's a little bit bent but that's okay but it's kind of straight and in line with that that trim but in any case that way it bends over the top of the ridge like that all right well if you're gonna ventilate your shed you might as well use a vented Skylight I think that's pretty cool because it's it's actually kind of translucent plastic and it it lets not only air in but it lets light in as well and you can see how that looks from the inside it actually has a template right on the back [Music] Why didn't it go through this shedline product can also be used for retrofit installation so if you've already got a shed that's existing you can cut right through the shingles and Tuck this up underneath it it doesn't have to be new construction like this and they say not to put any sealant around it they say that these little ridges built into it are enough to channel the water away that it's just no sealant no caulk nothing is this one will go above and everything should line up very nicely good yep okay so these are just like the uh The Edge shingles they are perforated and we just have to snap them into three parts the dark part is the part that gets covered [Music] see they stick up a little bit but once they heat up in the Sun and it's just September for us right now so you'll definitely heat up more all right that is it silicone caulk Real Silicone and put it on these nails that are exposed and the nails on the skylights that are exposed and because these are galvanized nails so they won't technically they're rust resistant but they will Rust over time so we want to make sure that they are you know protected more the one little detail that I didn't show is actually these corners where the drip edge at the bottom goes on first but then the sides come on next and I just cut these with a a bit of a I bent it over so that it wraps around a little bit just makes it nicer so when you look at it you don't see you know dark Edge where they meet we'll be installing Aloft at each end of this shed all right I put marks already at the height that it's supposed to be you can see here we're using two by four lumber to support the Loft no no right here [Music] foreign this isn't designed to store a tremendous amount of weight but if you want it stronger you can always use two by sixes or even two by eights you just have less storage space above this one's got a Mark here okay and that one I'm going to put in that little Joys back here for us if it starts sagging we can always tie it to the rafters for Extra Strength the height of the loft is 74 inches which is tall enough for everyone in our family that's the same height as the door openings in the tops of the windows if you're there [Music] The Lofts were covered with the same 5 8 inch OSB sheets that we used on the roof hello look at that that's our door this is a Janus 650 roll-up door if you want to get this exact door just Google it and pick an online retailer they all seem to drop ship directly from Janus and shipping is extremely expensive so consider it buying locally or driving to pick it up if possible the door itself cost us around four hundred dollars but the crate and the shipping added a whopping 275 bucks it's much more economical to build wooden doors but in my experience big doors never fit right and anyway I always wanted to try a roll-up door to make a mini garage to store the lawn tractor thank you it really helps to have an impact driver with the right size socket [Music] and there we go look at how good this looks look at that that is so cool foreign guard is such an easy thing to put on and cheap there's really no reason to do a gutter without it because I know this is the cheapest kind you can get I got this on my shed 22 years ago and it's still on so there's absolutely nothing wrong with the cheap stuff don't spend a lot of money on gutter guard [Music] all right look at that first shot how nice now are you gonna be able to get off and not hit your head oh yeah look at that no problem baby's got a new home I like that that'll prevent anything from damaging the door if it gets too close the front door was the same piece of t11 siding that was cut from the wall that way the seams would line up perfectly with the rest of the wall the trim around the door was all 1 by 4 Pine just like the rest of the trim on the shed I'm attaching the trim with a Pneumatic Crown stapler the Staples are quarter inch wide an inch and a quarter long just short enough that they don't poke through when stapling them from the back through the plywood relax never have too many you can see how the plywood is bowed and that's why I use the clamp to hold the wood tight while stapling we're hoping that the trim will help straighten out the bow over time but it doesn't affect the operation of the door either way bad for a first test fit but it's a little tight it's got to go up and the sides are a little snug all right not bad looks good loading up The Lofts from the garage and I gotta tell you these things are really pretty cool we don't have electric run yet but we can see speaking of electric that was the next step on this project we needed to trench a line to bring the electric wire from the house all the way out to the shed we were fortunate to already have a GFCI outlet on the back of the house which you can see here behind Josh because the frame of the window sticks out a little bit from the rest of the siding I decided that we would attach the window trim to itself and basically make an entire frame pre-paint them and the way they're held together is just with pocket holes and so they can just be nailed right in place [Music] thank you [Music] one of the things that concerned me about the roll-up door was down here the fact that the door is on the inside of the shed this is the shed floor and that's not pressure treated plywood and even if it was pressure treated plywood can still delaminate over time because of the the moisture and the rain and all the elements you can even see how the water has been wicking in here all right a piece of flashing some Staples and a little bit of clear caulk you might be able to see it right there this and I only caulk the top Edge by the way and that's just in case he pulls the mower in while it's wet no water will get underneath there we go we added this rubber garage door kind of strip here it's actually vinyl and uh just to cut down on the the rain and also to close up the space a little bit and it doesn't interfere with the operation of the door but if you remember that trim inside here see it but that trim inside there was set back because it had to stick out even with the the siding so there was a space there so this not only covers that space But it cuts down on the amount of rain that hits the door so we've been working on this very part time for about four months now and I'm ready to give you a tour so first and foremost the door it's a really pretty design Josh wanted a cross buck so we put that in we gave it a a small ramp just so we could get the things in like the snow blower and some bikes at some point all right so the majority of the space is taken up with the big tools so we've got the lawn tractor here the zero turn mower as well as a snow blower here that is also a monster but behind that we've got power washer we've got the robot for the pool there's a blower lawn tools hanging on the wall we've got some extra Lumber here ladders things like that games the feature of this shed is these two Lofts though this is a really cool feature because it just increases the storage and lets you use up above and they're both of a height where you can get underneath them everybody in the family nobody's going to hit their head this one is exactly the same way and the door openings are the same height as well again no bumping of heads now this loft is more of the seasonal kind of stuff there's some pool stuff up in here there's some chemicals chlorine Etc the spreaders up there and we also have the bagger for the lawn tractor just put it up get it out of the way one of the other cool features let me turn the lights off for a second and I'm going to close the door all right with the door closed we've just got light coming in from the windows as well as these skylights so these are vents but they're also because they're translucent they let light through and it's really cool I mean look you can see stuff on top of the Loft even if the power was out and granted of course these two windows let in a lot of light too but in no way is it dark in here so even if we didn't want to Electrify it we'd have plenty of light but of course we did run power to the shed we trenched a line all the way from the house that's this gray wire here and there's a GFI outlet that was already on the outside of the house that we wired into and we wired a switch to that outlet and that controls these two shop lights and we have a couple of outlets over here on this side and we figured we're going to let them get used to it and if they want they can we can always expand it and add more but right now there's six outlets in here so that's fine to I don't know get the snow blower started and charge anything that needs to be charged now one of the other awesome features of this shed is this roll-up door it's just like a garage door and again nobody hits their head and it's also just the perfect place store that tractor now this one we built a bigger ramp and we also put some flashing here because when the door is closed you can see that the floor would be exposed to the weather so we put the flashing there just to make sure that when water hits the door it comes down over the ramp instead of going into the shed we also put gutters on the shed and brought the water down over here which is the low spot in the yard and we also made sure to put especially with all these trees here we put gutter guard on those gutters too just inexpensive gutter guard that uh just keeps the leaves out of it and it found a nice flat spot in the yard we didn't really have to do much digging or leveling and uh we trimmed out these two windows really nicely now a couple other things to note the studs are 24 inches on Center everything is two by four even the the ceiling joists we did not use trusses we just use a ridge pole down the middle these two windows are about 36 by I think they are 21 perhaps something like that honestly in with the shortages that we had this year these were the windows that I could get and so I got what I could and I designed around it and I ordered them long before I started building the shed so we made sure that we were making the hole sizes the right size that'll do it for this episode and for this shed thank you so much for watching if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and I will see you in the next one welcome home be sure to subscribe and watch our new series The Living flip [Applause] [Music] and that has inch and a quarter

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Length: 42min 5sec (2525 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 03 2023