Show me your shed

is it bigger than your house?

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keep us updated wit photos...

Looks fun!

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Is it going to be on stilts?

Base completed.

Cargo bike used for shed size comparison.

I would be concerned the the wooden stilts will eventually be overcome by rot from ground contact despite the pressure treating. Took about 7 years on my fence posts.

Hopefully I will have sold the house and have moved out by then, so it won't be my problem...

I bought this specific shed so it can be moved easily to another property. Or resold.

Fingers crossed then :) It's good that the rest of the floor framing is elevated and ventilated. I suppose you are trying to minimise the lost space but it is also very sensible to have sufficient access to clear leaves and other detritus from between the fence and shed. Again, this accumulation can lead to corrosion/rot of the shed.

I spent a few weekends at the start of the year jacking up my shed with car jacks because the floor had rotted away. It was built directly on a concrete slab.

Some pavers (maybe 4 or 5, corners and centre), a few plastic packers or wood and some offcuts of dampproof course would allow you to support the joists in addition to those posts. Simple to do now and a total pain in 5 years time.

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Looks like a building site toilet block

Is that less than 2.5m under permissible development? Or is it considered a temporary structure?

Bit of a shed (well, garage) renovation project on the go...

On Christmas Eve the silver birch at the bottom of my garden fell onto my garage

It properly fucked the roof

And covered everything in moss, broken branches and bits of asbestos

Tree surgeon came and chopped it into bits and got it off the roof

Which left me plenty of firewood:

(there was actually about twice this once I'd split the remains of the stump as well)

Had to winch the stump off the wall in order to get it cut down further

This is what was left after I'd emptied the garage into our cellar

Started to strip the old asbestos panels off. They're 40kg each and 2.8m x 1m, and I had to wear a mask while moving them and getting them wrapped so I could dispose of them.

Knocked out some of the blockwork so I could repair a some cracked joints

The ever expanding junk pile

The tree has a preservation order so will need replacing eventually

Got the last of the roof off and wrapped, and started to repair and strengthen the roof timbers

The junk pile, stump remains and wrapped asbestos all got collected. Good to have our parking space back.

Started to fit the replacement fibreglass roof panels

Fiddly but satisfying job. Needed to get some panels on as we're forecast rain for the first time in weeks tomorrow.

Once I've got the roof finished I'll move on to the electrics (more sockets!) and getting decent doors fitted.

Looking forward to more updates!

Don't hold your breath. It's taken me 5 months to get this far. :-)

This is superb shed content.

Nice work so far!

Nice job! Enjoyed that

Lovely job. How moisture proof is that garage? Do tools get a bit rusty?

Thanks everyone.

How moisture proof is that garage? Do tools get a bit rusty?

The roof was a bit leaky before the tree landed on it so they did a bit. The floor's pretty good, but there's a crack in the render on one wall above the DPM that lets some moisture in. I'll fix that once I know the roof is water tight. I'm going to insulate and line the roof and walls too, and I've got a dehumidifier if I need to dry things out.

Finished getting the roof panels in place yesterday. Only one leak in the heavy rain overnight, hopefully fixed that this morning. Next dilemma is to choose colours for the doors and corner flashings.

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so... new shed last march, over the winter it leaked (felt roof)

it leaked in early spring and its leaking a lot now...

company have been out twice, but are now closed due to virus etc.

I have too many bikes etc in there to get wet, whats the best option?

I do not really fancy refelting ... got a tonne of jobs on ... can I just cover the lot in this ...https://www.screwfix.com/p/thompsons-emergency-roof-seal-black-1ltr/87810

I’ve got a similar situation in my (self built) shed office/bike store thing. Do you know where the leaks are coming from?

I guess this would be more work than painting with roof seal (I don't know how good that is) but this would be good

Pretty sure water is going under the felt joins