Thread: New Shed- WIP

Update:

I acid etched the slab on the weekend as preperation for putting some paving paint down this coming weekend.

Hope to put the actual shed up on the Australia day long weekend....

Just a couple of pic of the painted slab.....

Wonder how long it will stay that clean

Now what is a more Aussie way to spend Australia day than putting up a shed........?

First two pics of the some of the bits and bobs waiting to be attacked...

And the last two pics are the progress at the end of day 1. 90% of the frame is up, just need to do the roller door header and jambs and then onto the sheeting.....

Only snag we have hit is there is two small brackets missing for the roller door header, will have to go out tomorrow morning and buy something suitable (will only need a couple of small L brackets so shouldnt be hard to find)

Both windows are in, All is plum and square Nice and bloody high too with the 2.7m walls...

Was a bit sore a couple of hours ago but seems to have improved with each well earned stubbie Was bloody hot today too, I reckon I have sunburnt palms from the hot steel.... not that Im complaining

Should have her finished by the end of the long weekend


Joel

Looking good Joel.

On the middle truss, get yourself some selfdrilling metal screws and put some in the pressed metal fittings to stop it sagging. It dosen't matter how tight you do those bolts up it will sag when you get on the roof to screw it down and it also helps if you put a temporary prop under it as well.

I agree totally!! Support that centre truss!! And whack in as many extra tecks you can... BETTER YET!! get a steel purlin and jam the buggar under it!!

No seriously... okay mine was 9x6 with 3mtr spans (ergo 2 trusses in the middle) which I think from memory yours is 6x3? then the centre one is 3 mtrs from both ends right? What happened with mine was the damned centre ones drooped BADLY! So the only fix was to either take it down an start again reinforcing as much as possible as we put it back together... not an option!! We had ONE DAY to get that buggar up so takin it down wasnt an option... second choice to leave 2 of the lads working while me an one of the FSL bolted 100 klicks down the road to pick up 2 6mtr lengths of C channel from his dads farm the back 100 klicks... so we cut one length to fit the height and jammed tha buggar under the first middle truss this meant the shed wasnt wide open inside but still... then looking at the second truss it was also drooping badly so cut the remainder of the C channel to length and used it as a brace giving me one 3x6 area and one 6x6 area... and one length of C channel spare!! But by gawd shes up an that roof aint goin nowhere!

Otherwise Joel shes looking flamin brilliant! WELL DONE!!

Originally Posted by djstimber

Looking good Joel.

On the middle truss, get yourself some selfdrilling metal screws and put some in the pressed metal fittings to stop it sagging. It dosen't matter how tight you do those bolts up it will sag when you get on the roof to screw it down

Thanks for the tip DJ and WD.... I will whack some extra teks in the apex brackets before i sheet the roof tomorrow.... and yep its a 6 x 3.5 x 2.7 (h)

Today was a fiddly day, took us till after lunch to sort out the roller door and the associated jambs etc... half the battle was its not a standard design with the roller door in the side which made life difficult, ended up having to buy a couple of extra brackets from the hardware store and some extra teks screws and some bolts etc to mount it.... the roller door came with coach screws for wood to mount its support brackets! (real bloody handy ) got there in the end though was a real royal PITA though....

Got the back wall sheets on, the PA door in and started doing the front wall sheeting... hopefully tomorrow (with all the fiddly crap out of the way) we will make some real head way.....

anyway..... progress shots from the end of day 2 below

Joel

Coming along nicely Joel , the roller doors can be fiddly buggers to put in can't they.

All done! Took 3 full days but we took our time and made sure we didnt make any mistakes All has turned out well... looks just like a bought one....

Only thing that needs to be done to the outside is the downpipes fitted.... but I am holding off on that cause I wanna see if I can find a small water tank that will fit behind the shed....

Here are some pics from the outside of the structure all finished

And a pic of the inside, I have since fitted 4 large metal shelving units in the shed and started filling it up and have started moving in my tools and machines from the small shed next door (will now be the garden and storage shed)... I will post pics soon of it getting fitted out.

I have also run all the wiring (will post some pics when I take em) and mounted all the points, just waiting for my electrician to come along and hook up the juice

Final pic is of the middle apex bracket with extra teks as suggested It didnt move at all when the roof went on (I actually put extra teks in all the apex and haunch brackets.... 'just in casers' )

Well done mate , you have done a excellent job there, better than the professionals I reckon .

Now tell me, what are all those left over bits on the ground

Mate looking at that shed just gave me flashbacks of when I lived in Canberra as a kid. The old man had a shed not disimilar but he kept a tiger moth in it that he was doing up with a mate. Next an old Austin.
It was cool having a plane* in your garage as a kid.


*Flying type not a darksiders toy.

PS Great shed don't get lost in there.

Originally Posted by djstimber

Now tell me, what are all those left over bits on the ground

LOL, actually I have a couple of full 3m sheets of colorbond left over, plus some rather large offcuts (plus the 'cover sheets' which are in pretty good nick). When supplying the wall sheets they must give you enough sheets to clad the shed if you dont have a PA door or any windows... :Shrugs:

Anyway, now I have plenty to make my daughter a matching cubby house when she gets a little older Will just store it under the house.

Bleedin, not quite big enough to get lost in but I will damn sure try my hardest

Joel are those trusses C15015's? If so they wont sag in your lifetime as long as you dont hook up a block and tackle to lift your new lathe into position.....

Great work, mongrel bloody roller doors are the bain of my existance. I wil NEVER muck around with one again.

When is the christening/forum get together/bbq happening?

Pete