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To continue my backwards approach to renovating, I’ve no living room but have a few weeks coming up to build a garden shelter for late night fire and general lazing as the stars appear (area doesn’t get any sun).
It’s a concrete base already from a previous garage, so I’ll be building onto it directly - aiming for a simple structure with a similar sloping pent style to the one pictured (but obviously won’t look as glam) and using the fence as ‘walls’.
It’s roughly 5m x 2.5 x 2 max (would rather duck into it than block out sun). The most important thing is for the roof to be waterproof. Any rain will blow from the far, to near side of photo.
I’d like it to look nice and I’m happy to spend £, spend time, but with 6/10 level of skill and scary power tool experience.
I can’t find any plans online, so I’ll be winging it (as a soft handed office pansy) and providing embarrassing updates where people will probably tell me I should have done ‘X’, so please feel free to share any experience or advice before I start this slightly daunting project!
Ta in advance 🙂
wow, how did i miss this, only just seen it by accident when looking for a different thread!!
I can’t find any plans online, so I’ll be winging it
best way when youve got a set area and height to deal with, fag packet working out is the way forward 😉
i had no experience whatsoever and with help from a mate and on here built something i could only have dreamed of, so im sure with your '6/10 level of skill and power tool experience' youll build exactly what you want 🙂 the only thing i can advise really is to sort out your wood sizing first. i spent many an hour drawing and re-drawing on A4 paper to work out lengths to fit the sizes of wood supplied. so if shiplap was supplied in 3.6 and 4.2m lengths say, id work out where that would come to, whether i could use full lengths or double up on half lengths, that sort of thing, to maximise space and cut down on waste. plus it cut down on sawing too.
so a few calls to the local wood merchants to work out who's cheapest, what sizes they do, make sure its tanalised, that sort of thing. list each merchant with what wood they do and then sit down and work out what exactly you need. thanks to that i had hardly any waste/surplus wood at all.
whats your base going to be, decking? or just the plain concrete?
and the roof, i went for felt in the end for cost, but id have preferred the rubber stuff if cost wasnt a consideration.
take pics, lots of pics! of everything, even your fag packet sizing, its good to look back afterwards 😀 and post progress pics up here, we love a good shed build thread.
good luck.