Pablo1508
1st February 2011, 11:14 PM
Hello all,
After some time lurking here are reading posts and responses I've decided to port.
I'm going to bite the bullet and am going to attempt to build a shed myself. I don't have much experience but how hard can it be? (famous last words).
I have the time but not unlimited resources and to have someone build it for me I believe would be fair bit more than the cost of materials.
The slab will be done by someone else, as I don't know where to start and have limited access to help so its not something I can do myself.
I'm planning a 4m by 6m shed with a skillion roof sloping along the long side with a drop of about 300mm to maximize the height inside the shed.
So the the height will be 3metres sloping down to around 2.7metres along the 6 metre side. (measurements are from ground to roof line.)
I was also thinking of a paved area in front of the doors with a bit of a covered pergola type structure to protect the doors from the weather
I was intending on a timber frame with some sort of cladding on the outside, probably some sort of treated pine and the inside will be clad probably with plywood.
The problem is I'm having difficulty finding information as to how thick the timber should be, etc. I even asked a company that does frames and they said 'Just supply the drawings and we will go from there. The funny thing is that we had an extention built a while ago and when I asked the architect about some specifics he would say "oh don't worry a good builder will sort that out' I used to say "Where do I find a listing for "only good builders" but he wasn't impressed.
So I'm thinking treated pine frame (90 mm by 35mm) with studs at 450mm centres. Now I imagine that the rafters for the roof will have to be bigger than this to span 6 metres without sag or will 90 by 35 be enough? ( Umm.. probably not) I figured if I just over engineer it it shouldn't fall down, may even wrap the whole lot in plywood (Joke) but then again I was surprised at how little bracing was put on the frame to the extension we put up a few years ago
Next is the roof itself, normal corrugated colourbond wont do because its a very low pitch ie less than 4 degs. So I've researched the clip lock stuff and that's OK as far as pitch is concerned but they have a bunch of information on their site about maximum spans depending on maximum rainfall. Groan
Does anybody have a similar roof with a small pitch? how do you prevent it leaking if it rains really hard? BTW I'm in Sydney
I didn't really want to go with a traditional gable roof simply because I think I can build a Skillion one but would have no idea where to start with a gable one.
Should I have someone do some drawings or is that overkill for basically a rectangular single shed with one set of double doors and two small windows?
Then there is power, and insulation, and lighting and tools and workbenches and and and and
I can draw up some very rough hand drawn sketches if what I've said above is confusing.
Any comments or assistance will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Pablo
After some time lurking here are reading posts and responses I've decided to port.
I'm going to bite the bullet and am going to attempt to build a shed myself. I don't have much experience but how hard can it be? (famous last words).
I have the time but not unlimited resources and to have someone build it for me I believe would be fair bit more than the cost of materials.
The slab will be done by someone else, as I don't know where to start and have limited access to help so its not something I can do myself.
I'm planning a 4m by 6m shed with a skillion roof sloping along the long side with a drop of about 300mm to maximize the height inside the shed.
So the the height will be 3metres sloping down to around 2.7metres along the 6 metre side. (measurements are from ground to roof line.)
I was also thinking of a paved area in front of the doors with a bit of a covered pergola type structure to protect the doors from the weather
I was intending on a timber frame with some sort of cladding on the outside, probably some sort of treated pine and the inside will be clad probably with plywood.
The problem is I'm having difficulty finding information as to how thick the timber should be, etc. I even asked a company that does frames and they said 'Just supply the drawings and we will go from there. The funny thing is that we had an extention built a while ago and when I asked the architect about some specifics he would say "oh don't worry a good builder will sort that out' I used to say "Where do I find a listing for "only good builders" but he wasn't impressed.
So I'm thinking treated pine frame (90 mm by 35mm) with studs at 450mm centres. Now I imagine that the rafters for the roof will have to be bigger than this to span 6 metres without sag or will 90 by 35 be enough? ( Umm.. probably not) I figured if I just over engineer it it shouldn't fall down, may even wrap the whole lot in plywood (Joke) but then again I was surprised at how little bracing was put on the frame to the extension we put up a few years ago
Next is the roof itself, normal corrugated colourbond wont do because its a very low pitch ie less than 4 degs. So I've researched the clip lock stuff and that's OK as far as pitch is concerned but they have a bunch of information on their site about maximum spans depending on maximum rainfall. Groan
Does anybody have a similar roof with a small pitch? how do you prevent it leaking if it rains really hard? BTW I'm in Sydney
I didn't really want to go with a traditional gable roof simply because I think I can build a Skillion one but would have no idea where to start with a gable one.
Should I have someone do some drawings or is that overkill for basically a rectangular single shed with one set of double doors and two small windows?
Then there is power, and insulation, and lighting and tools and workbenches and and and and
I can draw up some very rough hand drawn sketches if what I've said above is confusing.
Any comments or assistance will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Pablo