A good old fashioned shed building thread (picture heavy) – Page 3 – Chat Forum

kayak23 · 2015-04-12T10:37:37Z

I've just taken on an allotment plot recently. Partly so that I could grow some rad veg to eat, but mainly, if I'm honest, so I could BUILD A SHED! :D I thought I'd share my progress with you shed-appreciating folks here. I work as an instructor/technician in a College, teaching cabinetmaking and so for one, have a great workshop to use but also, a two-week window over the Easter break with no students in (except Mon, Tues, Weds last week), with holiday booked to hastily build my shed. I had to be quick! My design is inspired by boats, by camping pods, by curvy stuff, by not wanting a flat-roofed shed, and so is based on images I have been looking at online by a bloke called Stimpson, who came up with a quick and elegant way of building shelters for boat building... [imgThe curved ribs are formed from two sections, blocks are screwed in from both sides, thereby locking the components into a curve. Dead simple really but very effective. So, Monday morning, the first day of half-term, I laid out some moisture-resistant mdf on the floor(which would later become my floor) and started the build. I had done a plan of sorts on Google Sketchup. The shed had to be no more than 10x8'. [imgInitial layout onto 2 8x4' panels. [imgCurve is laid out (2440mm radius, starting from 300mm vertical from bottom to increase headspace) [imgBending rib 1 around the blocks, and making any adjustments. [imgA large percentage of the materials I used were effectively free thankfully, else I wouldn't have been able to do this. We had a lot of stuff left lying outside when some contractors did a massive job, finished and cleared off, leaving it all open to the elements. I rescued it :-) [imgThe double skin rib with blocks between at regular intervals, and screwed in from both sides. [imgWhat I was finding when I did the ribs was that just like when you steam-bend timber, or laminate timber, you get a degree of 'springback'. The degree to which the timber springs back is pretty hard to plan for and so because of that, I found that the ribs were often turning out a bit differently to one another... Meh... Cutting the tops to angled length where they would meet the ridgebeam. [imgLarch bent components [imgNext up was the base. I was originally intending to use Euro pallets for this but figured I t would be way quicker in the time I had and easier just to suck up the cost and get some treated 4x2" treated timber. Job done. [imgThe base. 12x8' although the actual shed will be just 10x8' (as per allotment regs) [imgLayout on floor and some of the ribs (8 in total) [img12x8' base built and up on blocks to allow the curved ribs to fit which extend down past the base level. [imgNow I could fit the side rib-bearers and fit the ribs each side, spacing them out evenly. [imgNext I fitted the ridgebeam. I was on my own building this and so to fit this massive length I had to come up with a way of supporting the ends while I screwed in another end. I ended up making trusses or brackets or ridge plates or whatever they're called that lock the ribs together from each side but leave a gap big enough for the beam to sit into. Thsi meant I could work at one end while the other end was just supported....sort of. You can just see one on the far right rib section. I also tried a bit of cross-bracing, which they tend to use on the polythene-skinned versions of these designs, but which of course I wouldn't need what with screwing panels to the ribs. [imgWith the ribs screwed to the ridgebeam, I then started my attempts at skinning the structure using (because it was free) 9mm moisture resistant mdf. [imgThe skinning worked fairly well so I moved onto fitting a door which I'd found in a skip. Made a frame out of some old Beech window linings I found too. [imgWith a doorframe in place, I could cut and fit the ends... [imgA decent shed has to have a bit of light coming in and so I had the idea of using washing machine doors. One trip the the tip later... [img[imgThe front end could only house one window, but for the back I decided to go a bit Pugin and made a Gothic Trefoil out of my rescued washings machine doors... :D [imgWhile I was there, and getting a bit carried away. I thought I'd make a nice tree for the back inside wall. My idea being that I will drill lots of holes in the top of the trunk and folks can sit there of an evening with a branch and a pen-knife and whittle a nice branch or two that we can then fit to the tree, building up a nice effect over time. The bulk of it is made from local Sycamore, which was rough shaped by bandsaw and then sculpted a bit with an abrasive disc on my angle grinder. [img[imgBecause I wasn't quite busy enough already, I made a little timelapse video of me dismantling the shed (also reversed to imply building it, but I forgot...) [videoOnce I'd mostly made the shed. I had to deconstruct it, remove the base and take the base to site in order to lay it out and sink the trunks I'd got for the pilings into the ground. The coll...

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Sheds looking nice in the snow. 🙂

Shed of Dreams
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The River Shed
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Posted : 12/12/2017 6:58 pm

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Excellent photos!
Nice work kayak

Posted : 12/12/2017 7:50 pm

AlexSimon

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Excellent photos!
Nice work kayak

Posted : 12/12/2017 7:51 pm

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Great photos and truly inspiring stuff.

Posted : 12/12/2017 9:55 pm

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Fantastic stuff Kayak, I'm always keen to see what you are going to make next

Posted : 12/12/2017 10:38 pm

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lovely work, inspirational.

Posted : 13/12/2017 8:11 am

kayak23

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I got some drone footage off a student of mine of the river shed. Looks pretty cool.

Posted : 15/02/2018 7:10 am

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Lovely view over the beck.
Can you make a coracle? 😉

Posted : 15/02/2018 9:43 am

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If we're bumping shed threads... 👍

A friend happened on this photography book in a local bookshop and gave me a copy for Christmas. Turns out the author had snapped a pic of my shed from the other side of the river! 😅

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Posted : 28/12/2018 11:17 pm

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Big old bit of tree down today in the high winds. Just glanced the deck of the river shed but luckily no damage. 😲

Bit concerned about all the others near it now.

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Posted : 10/08/2019 6:27 pm

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I am in love with the washing machine door use.

Posted : 11/08/2019 5:27 am

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Looks like you've just got some more free wood for your next project.

Or a few winters worth of firewood...

Posted : 11/08/2019 10:55 am

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Well that was a little more excitement than the usual allotment happenings this morning.

Went to my shed and noticed two of my washing machine windows on the back had been smashed in.

Then I heard voices inside.
Went round the front to see my door smashed in and two scrotes inside still! Little ***** were pulling the inside apart. At first I told them to get out, grabbed one of them and started to pull him through the door, but soon after decided instead to block them in while my other half called the police.

They were actually quite polite in a weird way. Said they thought this was another blokes shed who had done something to them and they were getting him back.

I told them how gutted I was, and that I couldn't believe what they'd done to my shed.

They were obviously not happy about being held and so started threatening me, took a pic of me, all that stuff. Said they'd come back and see me round town...

The one lad kept trying to climb out of the broken door but I wedged a fork in the door and stopped him.

They had a massive machete/billhook type thing which I took off them and threw outside, also a dumbbell bar. Weird thing is I couldn't remember if it was mine or not that I had in there for legitimate gardening!

Police came real quick and took them off anyway. Must have been the mention of a machete.

Yeah, bit worried about repercussions obviously but what can you do. Adrenaline starts going. I reckon they were only about 16/17

People are ****s 😐

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Posted : 26/10/2019 3:18 pm

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Bawbags, rotten feeling when someone does something like this. Hopefully all is mendable.

Posted : 26/10/2019 3:48 pm

cyclistm

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Oh no, what a shame. Hope it's not too badly damaged.

Posted : 26/10/2019 3:52 pm

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Arseholes 🙁

Posted : 26/10/2019 3:55 pm

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Scum. See if the cops will make them come and help 'repair it'.

Posted : 26/10/2019 5:43 pm

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Yikes, that’s awful. Youths with machetes, I can’t see the police viewing that lightly. I hope you can get your shed water light and secure quickly

Posted : 26/10/2019 7:13 pm

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Yeah, the police turned up quick smart actually. Was very impressed. They also sent an armed response unit I think, but the normal police had sorted it by then. 😳

Posted : 26/10/2019 7:47 pm

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Oh ffs that’s awful 😞
Your shed is ace.

Posted : 26/10/2019 10:12 pm

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Bugger. Love seeing all your woodwork projects. Hopefully the cladding isn't too hard to replace. Trip to the tip for some "windows" I guess - are they fairly standard sizes or do you need to harvest a specific machine?

Posted : 26/10/2019 10:25 pm

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Dude I'm sorry too see that. Least you caught them.

I'm not sure if I'd of had the control not to kick the shit out of them though

Posted : 27/10/2019 7:15 am

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Wish it would quit raining! 😳

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Posted : 16/11/2019 11:54 am

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