Constructing tool shed

You can now build your door from plywood and install any windows required. The exterior can be done in various ways such as siding, stucco, or just paint it. Whatever you choose to perhaps match the house. The roof is the last and final step to your woodworking project. Usually, asphalt shingles are the material most commonly used.

Whether you're looking to take up woodworking as a fun hobby, or you're serious about establishing yourself in a woodworking career, WonderfulWoodworking. Building A Tool Shed. Share on Facebook. Continue the woodworking project, by installing the roof rafters of the tool shed, as well as the supports for the shelves. Align the components, making sure they are equally spaced and secured properly.

Work with great attention and good judgement, if you want to obtain a professional result. Building the doors of the tool shed is the most exiting part of the project, as you have the opportunity to create something unique with your own hands.

As you can easily see in the plans, first you have to attach the trims to the front of the diy shed. Make sure the doors fit into place, before installing the hinges. The next step of this diy project is to build the roof of the lean-to tool shed. Work with great care, making sure the wooden boards are aligned properly, at both hands. After you have assembled the storage shed, you should take care of the finishing touches. Thanks for sharing.

By seamster Follow. More by the author:. About: Make. I got an old sewing machine when I was just a kid, and I've been making stuff ever since. My name is Sam and I'm a community manager here at Instructables. More About seamster ». Here's a solid little shed I built in my backyard. Local Regulations Before you get too serious about building a shed, be sure to check with your local government to make sure you will be in compliance with any regulations regarding the building of a structure like this.

Design and Budget My goal was to build a shed that would be rock-solid and long-lasting, with a design that fully maximized my dollars-spent by taking advantage of common dimensions in building supplies. See diagram above for the basics of fastening with screws. This is a backbreaking step, but should not be rushed or done halfheartedly. Everywhere else I used 3" exterior grade screws, fastened into pre-drilled holes.

Exterior boards were added to double up the floor frame, lapped at the corners as shown. Galvanized joist hangers were fastened to the frame with galvanized nails every 16 inches. The joist boards were fastened in place with 3" exterior screws through the joist brackets. That would be kind of fun to figure out, but fortunately that is not needed here!

That oversimplifies things, but let's just go with it. I'll briefly cover framing doors and windows in a later step. You have a lot of options when it comes to windows and doors on a simple shed like this. See the photo notes for how I framed mine and for the basics on framing in windows and doors. The installation of the wall panels requires precision and a very specific order of steps.

Mark and trim off the top corners of the panels as shown. This is where things get really exciting! You get to see if all your careful measuring and building was done correctly. You know, you wait all week for the weekend so you can work on your big project. And then you wake up to this nonsense. Once the snow melted I painted the walls.

I used Behr exterior paint, color: Boston Brick. With the walls painted I added the roof trim pieces. I decided to use actual 2x4s for this to give the roof a more substantial look. Then I went back and quickly did some touch up painting. Here are some miscellaneous items that were taken care of at this point. There are so many details involved with the building and installation of the door. See photos and photo notes for specifics.

This is the solution I came up with for some tidy lawn tool storage. These little hangers were made from 2" PVC. This was a fun project and very rewarding! Participated in the Backyard Contest View Contest. Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! Reply Upvote. Matthias Wandel does pretty good work; amazing guy! Thank you very much! Fantastic detail! Good job on your shed. Answer Upvote. DaHooch 5 years ago. CarlTheDabbler 6 years ago on Introduction.

Good work on the shed. I love the PVC tool hangers. That's a great idea. I was worried the heavy pike tool might be too heavy for PVC brackets. Don't put too much effort into the details at this point. We don't want you getting too 'invested' in any particular option until you have got some input from others who will be using, or are impacted by your shed. You might be wise to create several options and create a 'talent contest' to see which shed design comes out on top!

Create a board with two or three of your favourite sketch designs to which others prefer Alternatively you can download into SketchUp sheds of all types from a site known as the 3D Warehouse. In the 3D Warehouse there are freely downloadable models of a wide range of structures not just sheds you can use and manipulate them to see how they work in your garden. Once you have decided on the style, size, where you want to locate your shed and what you want to include in the design. Items such as guttering, ramps etc.

You can then develop your model so that you get a really good idea of what the shed will look like. In Sketchup you can add textures and colours to surfaces. You can make the windows transparent and add all sorts of extras to give a real virtual experience of what the shed will look like. It is possible to get many of these items from the 3D warehouse, so you don't need to develop them yourself. In the following pictures I used items from the 3D warehouse to give a really good idea of a shed with lots of bells and whistles.

This is where using Sketchup as a shed planner comes into its own to check how your workbench and lawnmower will fit in! This shed has been developed much further than the basic 'pencil sketch' outline. Four reasons why Sketchup works well as Shed Design Software 1.

So, it doesn't matter if you work best in feet and inches or you prefer the metric system. You can even adjust the accuracy of the program so that it reflects the size of component you want to work to. By clicking on the 'window' tab you can select your preferred dimension system and also the degree of accuracy that you need.

Sketchup works for small woodworking projects up to re-planning your neighbourhood, town or world. This is one of the reasons that Sketchup is so good for seamlessly planning the big picture outline design of your project and then for working up the detailed design of the construction components.

Sketchup works for items of any size. From a shed door catch to a complete shed or even city! From literally making your design look like a pencil sketch when you first present your design.

To adding semi-realistic textures and colours to each element as you fine tune your finished presentation design. A preliminary sketch showing the size, shape and layout of a pent shed 4. The benefit of this is that you can then test your shed design dimensions by passing through a person of the same height as you to make sure that they don't bang their head on the door frame.