Shed recommendations

You gonna put it together yourself or buy it preassembled? Reason I ask is if you are assembling it, you might as well just build one yourself and save the $$$. I built a 12 × 16 with overhead storage for $2k. Still have the plans as well if you are interested.

Be a man & build it yourself ! We'll take pleasure in critiquing

Schu72 said:

Can you post a pic of your shed?

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I'll have to snap a few pics this evening, as all I have are construction pics on my phone.

bowhunter1023 said:

Kinda my thought to be honest. lmao

It will save you money and is not a hard task for someone fairly handy. Greg's background is not woodworking, but his shed is very well done. His knowledge is an asset in a task like this and there are plenty of us on here that could help. Take your time, plan, work smart and pay attention to details and I think you'll find it to be a very rewarding experience.

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I will tell you, I thoroughly enjoyed drawing the plans up on the computer and planning it from start to finish. One of the best parts about building it on your own is you can build it how you want, with the materials you want, for half the cost of a prefab building. When we were looking at them (the wife didn't have faith in my abilities) most were built with 2 × 3 framing and 24" studs on center, sitting on 4 × 4 skids. I built mine with 2 × 8 floor joists, and 2 × 4 studs on 16" centers. It took me a week to build it without any help, and minimal power tools.

For the price of some of those kits out there building it yourself may be a better way to go. Probably find plans on line to do it too.

I've been waiting for the weather to break so I can build one. I'm going to start tomorrow and took a week off work for that project along with a few other things. Simple 8'x10' with painted pressure treated plywood walls and shingled roof, if my math was right, should be just under $800 for everything. We'll see!

Will there be code issues? Just curious. I was thinking you were in the suburbs. I am considering building a chicken coop here soon. I had planned on using metal for the roof as I have some left over. The price of metal for roofs is fairly reasonable anymore. You might consider this if it isn't a code violation.

Metal or wood signing? Real "barn" or a shed that is on skids?

Find some Amishman to do it.

Huckleberry Finn said:

Metal or wood signing? Real "barn" or a shed that is on skids?

Find some Amishman to do it.

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Don't hire Amish, you'll never get the stink out of your shed.

Bigslam51 said:

Don't hire Amish, you'll never get the stink out of your shed.

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You've got to be kidding me. I dislike the Amish probably more than any around, but there is no question that they do damn good work for a cheap price.

All your doing is giving them ammo money so they can wipe more deer out Lol

I just explored all these avenues. I was playing with getting a prefab shed, taking a timber framing course in TN, even bought a cheap barn plan from the internet. We pulled into a shed place, the wife took one look at what they had and said that I could fill it up in about 3 hours. She was right I could have easily crammed that thing full to the gills.

With this revelation, I was on a quest to do a larger building.

I like doing hard work and would enjoy the task. I know I could have done it but......

I would have to do it myself, my friends are worthless when it comes to helping.
It would take me forever and my wife did not want me out there every night after work.
It was cheaper to pay someone to do it rather than eat up my vacation time and what I am "worth an hour".
The Amish are damn fast and I got a decent "winter discount". The other quote was 3k more w/o a lean to.....

They had it framed/shingled in 2.5 days

Now I need:
To source a concrete floor, I will do the fill and prep work, just basically need some laborers.
To find siding and put it up.

If you have time, build it. If your time is short, buy or hire....only you can make that call.

I recommend this if you want to do it yourself.
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/to...ci_sku=18343&gclid=COGHs66gw70CFbFaMgod_04Amw

I used it for the small size and it was nice only having to make 90* cuts. Worked like a champ by myself.