Show me your Garden Shed

[jabb]

I am planning to build a garden shed for storing my garden tools tractor and lawn furniture thinking of 10x16 or 12x16. Show me pictures of what you guys have. No garages please just garden shed variety.….Well maybe it will hold a few Porsche parts

[jabb]

Sorry I posted this in the wrong section. Can someone move it to off topic. I tried to delete it but could not Sorry

[notfarnow]

I want to build a garden shed next year, so I'll be interested to see the pictures. There's a really nice one down the road from me that I'm thinking about copying it for mine. I'll snap a picture when I walk the dogs tonight.

Last week they tore down an old church about 2 miles from my house. The steeple came down in one piece, sitting upright. I would have paid to have it brought here and used it as a garden shed, but it was rubble before I got there.

[Zeke]

That's a shame. That would have made a cool backyard structure. I don't see any religious overtones with that.

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by milt
That's a shame. That would have made a cool backyard structure. I don't see any religious overtones with that.

Yeah it was a shame, and unfortunately very common around here. They just flattened another old building with beautiful interior & exterior trim. I called to see if I could salvage some but they said no. If I could retire (at 31?) I'd do architectural salvage full time.

[/hijack]

A really nice garden shed:

[Superman]

Reviving an old thread. I hope to learn about garden sheds. I have a lawn mower, a fairly large, old by perfectly functioning Troy-Bilt Horse rototiller, bunch of garden hose, garden tools and other stuff clogging up my garage. I'd like to get my motorcycle out of the garage also, if I could. Bare minimum 10' x 10', and I think it would be a mistake to build one that small. At any rate, there are molded ("resin") plastic ones, steel ones, wood framed ones... I suppose I will need to check building codes, perhaps pour a slab or at least using blocks. A carpenter friend says put it on skids, that way there are no building codes, but I don't think that would work with the size I need. Speak to me of plusses and minuses, best practices and mistakes to avoid.

[rfuerst911sc]

Wow you revived a thread from 2007 !!! 😁 . Anyway based on what you want to stuff in there a 10x10 is a joke . You need to be thinking 10-12 foot wide and 20 foot deep at a minimum . Why do I say that ? Go ahead and have the vision of all your garden tools hanging on pegboard . Then some shelves to store items that can't hang on a peg hook . Then roll your tractor/rototiller/motorcycle in there and it gets small real quick .

The worst thing is to have a space too small and you have to move stuff EVERY time you want to pull something out . You want room to be able to walk around or maybe do some work . Just my 2 cents .

[stevej37]

8X12 hip roof wood utility building here. I wish the pic was higher..that's all I have now.
Amish built..they rolled it in on 2 inch pvc pipe onto my cement blocks.
I store my JD 20hp tractor, MTD snowthrower, gas pressure washer and a ton of yard tools in it.
The landing is something I built out of left-over 4X4's

It cost less than a thousand....delivered. It has fit my needs perfectly.

[chrismorse]

Been doing this for a few years. You do not want to build something, then have the building/planning dept on your ass.

Here, in Humble County/Kalifoania, you must have approved plans/permit to build any structure bigger than 120 square feet, or anything with electricity or water. Further, there are set back requirements, building to property line.
If this isn't bad enough, if, you are in a design review zone, youmay have to obtain approval from the "fashion police". Mumble, Mumble

Many counties/cities are more lenient. I will admit to building a few things that "may have" required building permits. I have only had to stop work, or unbuild a project twice in 40 years of construction.

IMHO, it is worth a couple of phone calls to save yourself some potential grief, ($).

Good Luck,
chris

[Rusty Heap]

I can barely fit my riding mower in it.

[wdfifteen]

We call it the "chicken barn" because the chickens winter in the left 1/3 of it. But it holds lot of our garden stuff. It's 15x15 and the floor is supported by pressure treated 2x4s. It just sits on top of the ground. No foundation.

[Aurel]

I built this one from scratch, for about $1,000 in materials.

[Evans, Marv]

Here are pics from a couple of sheds i built. I can't justify buying a kit type, when you can design and easily build your own to your requirements. One is a 6X8, I the other is a 10X12. For the 10X12, I ordered premade trusses 16 ft. long ($50 ea.) so I would have a 6 ft. overhang for rain protection. I used mostly stock materials in stock lengths & covered walls with fire resistant panels. Screwed everything together with deck screws & used liquid nails. I don't remember the cost, but it was way below kit prices. The small shed in the background of the first pic is a plastic shed I got for $35 at a yard sale.

[pwd72s]

Mine was easy to build, once I figured the location I wanted.

next step...home depot, get the tough shed order forms.

Then contractor hired to gravel and level the footprint.

Final step, sit in a folding chair and watch a team of young skilled guys install the shed in about 4 hours. Tipped the guys before they left.

Why the Home Depot sold tough shed? They use a rot proof galvanized metal framework for the foundation. Worried about the wood foundation used by the other brand rotting in our wet climate.

[Walter_Middie]

My wife and I built 2 sheds. The one on the left is for the mower and garden tools, the big one is for wood working and stores motorcycles in the winter. The big one is 12 x 8 and is a good place to hide during a rain storm.

Windows are from Craigslist (cheap).

Building codes around here allow up to 120 sq ft without a permit - that's 12 x 10. I chose to build a 12 x 8 because the footprint is exactly 3 sheets of plywood. The sheds are set on cement pier block with adjustable height screws for holding the floor joists. This way you can put down the pier blocks and then adjust the height without having to move all the cement blocks individually. The problem with this is that the sheds are not considered a permanent structure unless they are cemented to the ground - so if I was to sell the house, the sheds would not add value.

My wife and I built the shed walls on our back patio and stood them up on the shed floor. It was pretty easy for us to do, and it saved a ton of money over having a completed shed delivered or built by professionals on site.

[drcoastline]

Nothing special. Typical prebuilt salt box shed dropped on site. I moved it a round a bit then did a little landscaping and lighting. It's main features a small loft inside I built and ran electricity.

[herr_oberst]

Walter Middie for the win.

[GH85Carrera]

Right after we moved in I hired a local company to build me a shed on site. The are wood frame, but steel panels coated with some baked on Epoxy coating. They had an all wood and the metal skin versions side by side. the Metal skin one was MUCH cooler in the summer sun.

Our is 12x14 feet and I paid an extra $100 to have it made 8 feet tall not 6 feet so I don't have to duck. After 21 years of Oklahoma sun it still looks nice and has weathered several hail storm that destroyed a roof on the house.

One guy showed up at 8:00 AM and had a full size pickup loaded to the top with precut wood, and the metal panels. He built it on the concrete blocks we provided. He drove the last screw into place about 4:00 PM same day. I am real happy I paid to have it delivered and built for me. I am a lousy carpenter and it would have been lopsided and falling down by now if I did it. I do know my limits.

It is big enough to store the lawn mower, edger, string trimmer, leaf blower, power washer, fertilizer spreader, shop vac, chain saws, and lots of stuff for my master gardener wife's projects and my garage is clear of that crap.

[ted]

Mine is a simple Costco 8x8 plastic shed on a small slab.
Best part of the shed is it's located steps to the yard and it gets all of my landscape yard tools out of the enclosed garages.

[Baz]

I'll post again when I find the pics, but I built a 12' x 30' shelter in my sideyard to keep the rain off my stuff. No sides yet, but am planning on doing that this year (enclosing the shelter). I did everything myself - 4x4 post uprights, 2x4's for framing, and 1x6's atop to screw gavalume to.

It has a slight slope to it so the rain can slide off.

But I was looking at Home Depot sheds and saw this one that looks like it would be a nice option for those who may not want to construct one from scratch:

Newport 10 ft. x 12 ft. 2-Tone Eggshell and Coffee Galvanized Metal Shed with Sliding Lockable Doors



Only $469 and has a lot of good reviews along with customer photos.

I like that is has no windows!