How many sheds??
We currently have no less than seven sheds: ranging from the office I'm typing this from, built in stone (well, the soft cheese of the stone world, clunch) to a triangular lean-to where we store wood for the stove. We have plans to remove quite a few of them in the future to open up the site and give us better views, but most of them are currently full: so I've taken advantage of an unused triangular patch to create another shed for storing bikes, kid's toys and garden equipment, with the intention that we can then start knocking others down.
The previous owner had left us a huge collection of scrap wood - most was past use and had to be skipped, but I saved some of the best bits for the frame of the shed:
As one side is right by the stream I couldn't paint or cover it in situ, so I built the side as a single piece and covered it in tar paper. The wood for the side panel is recycled from sheets we used to block off half the living room while I took the ceiling down:
When fully built and covered in tar paper it was pretty heavy, but balancing on a sack barrow and with the help of a neighbour I managed to get it into place:
The door was until recently the rear entrance to a porch, which has been demolished. I'm not intending to get post here!
I made a window to fit a piece of glass, also saved by the previous owner of our house:
The floor is made from the remains of large shelving units, built by the previous owner, that were fitted in alcoves in the living room:
Finally I covered the roof with more boards and tar paper and finished the sides: if you look carefully you can see another old door being used here (I can't be bothered to remove the rusty old handle):
I think in the whole build I only used 2 new pieces of wood (some 4x2 that was necessary to make the roof strong enough for me to climb all over it while adding tar paper). All that remains is some solar lighting and painting, but for now it's dry enough to start filling with bikes and tools.
Of course now I have eight sheds.....is that enough? Perhaps I should build a few more....
The previous owner had left us a huge collection of scrap wood - most was past use and had to be skipped, but I saved some of the best bits for the frame of the shed:
As one side is right by the stream I couldn't paint or cover it in situ, so I built the side as a single piece and covered it in tar paper. The wood for the side panel is recycled from sheets we used to block off half the living room while I took the ceiling down:
When fully built and covered in tar paper it was pretty heavy, but balancing on a sack barrow and with the help of a neighbour I managed to get it into place:
The door was until recently the rear entrance to a porch, which has been demolished. I'm not intending to get post here!
I made a window to fit a piece of glass, also saved by the previous owner of our house:
The floor is made from the remains of large shelving units, built by the previous owner, that were fitted in alcoves in the living room:
Finally I covered the roof with more boards and tar paper and finished the sides: if you look carefully you can see another old door being used here (I can't be bothered to remove the rusty old handle):
I think in the whole build I only used 2 new pieces of wood (some 4x2 that was necessary to make the roof strong enough for me to climb all over it while adding tar paper). All that remains is some solar lighting and painting, but for now it's dry enough to start filling with bikes and tools.
Of course now I have eight sheds.....is that enough? Perhaps I should build a few more....