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We've moved house and I need to build a shed.
It's an odd shaped plot and the space I have available for a shed is as below:
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for the doors I've got a set of solid 1930's bi-fold doors that are 1.9m tall and 240 wide. They will go on the 4.7m side which faces the garden (the angled side is the boundary fence and the 3.8m side the drive). There'll be windows either side of the doors.
given the 2.1m overall height restriction due to boundary restriction and my desire to raise the shed a little (very wet garden so I want air underneath it) I think a fairly shallow pitch pent roof is probably going to be best but I can't get my head around how the pitch of the roof will work with an angled back to the shed but level/square front. I keep thinking the back wall needs to change height along it's length to keep the roof pitch 'square' but that feels wrong. I quite like the idea of a flatish roof for length of the 1m side to give height and then gentle slope back from there but again run into issues with seeing in my head how the trusses would work.
No really settled on materials but I think tongue and groove for the walls and a decent quality roof material. Budget is fairly generous.
It'll be directly under a yew tree with a TPO on it if that makes any difference.
Any help visualising/planning the roof design and construction much appreciated 🙂
I built something broadly similar last year.
Lessons I learned were many, not having any trades experience, but being reasonably handy.
I deliberately over built mine using studs of 2x2 in preparation for learning the lessons for my garden office due next year.
1. Build square wherever possible.
2. You can't avoid a swept roof if you build it pent and have uneven wall lengths.
3. Because its not square in design every single bit of timber will require measuring and cutting 'bespoke'. This will take longer than you can possibly imagine!
4. Door apertures create significant weakness in the wall they're in make sure to re-inforce
I decided against T&G because ita got more scope to hold water in the seams - went ship lap with mine.
If you don't change the height along the back wall, you end up with a roof like my old office.
The slope should be easy to work out. The bonus being you could create an upstand on that edge and move the water to your drive.