Recent content by porridgebear

Can't tell if you're being serious lol. It's a 4m x 2m over engineered tool / potting shed. No animals!

Hey everyone, Shed project is progressing. Onto the external cladding at the minute. A friend asked if I was adding vents and out of all the many You Tube videos of garden room/shed builds I've seen, I don't recall anyone ever fitting ventilation. My build is an over-engineering shed. 4x2...

I am inclined to complexity and detail, I am getting the sense I have overdone my "shed" - still, all good learning lol. OK well I am encouraged by your response that I can indeed do away with these annoyances.

Hey everyone, So with my shed/garden room build I got the rafters up, birds mouths-n-all (that was a pain) and I decided to use some joist hangers upside down to lock them to the double top plate of the frame (back and front side). This has caused a couple of issues and I am wondering if it's...

OK phew - yes I have 12mm ply for internal walls and 9mm ply for the ceiling and 12mm ply for roof (on which will be EPDM). Going straight on with fascia sounds great. I do plan on using vented soffit board at front and back. I might just pop some noggins between the rafters like the stud walls...

Thanks Adam - hm - I must have watched 20+ garden building/shed builds on YouTube and I've not seen anyone doing any kind of wall bracing beyond the noggins, the structures follow what I've put in the photo above. Are you saying the omission of front/back 6x2s on the roof rafters is what leads...

Thanks, OK interesting. Here is a photo where things are now if useful. Walls are all plumbed and supported with noggins. I was thinking 4x2 noggins in between each rafter front and back on the top plates might be handy for providing extra rafter rigidity, then just fascia direct on This is...

Hi, I've been building a garden shed (spec. similar to a garden roof however) and this weekend the 6x2 rafters went up onto the header plates with bird mouths and inverted joist straps. At the moment I have not faced the rafters back and front with a single length board, thereby creating a...

I think I said I would update the thread once this was done. Held a BBQ and with 4 people it was super easy to lift - 4m x 180cm, 4x2 stud wall clad with 19mm larch. 3 people probably would have done it too. We built the back wall on the shed floor - studs, membrane, battens, mouse mesh, and...

That's awesome Pete, if a little worrying how little I had thought about this! I'll update the thread on how this goes in the next few weeks - just got the floor down this weekend then had to BBQ as weather too nice not to.

You're right, it's 12mm for ply, just getting mixed up between the sheeting options. Cool yeah I will stick with the ply I think for the finish and use a vapour barrier. Roger on taping etc. I've been using some Gorilla aluminium tape so far on the floor joist joints before I pop the ply on...

That's very helpful, thank you :) No ply is not yet down, but PIR is in between the floor joists so not sure whether I can bang it into shape with it being so rigid now. Glad to hear the sheathing is not necessary. I just meant it added extra width (just 22mm sure) that takes away from my...

Hello everyone, I'm undertaking my first ever build of anything non-computer-software, and that be a shed in the garden. It has a range of challenges, it's 4m x just 1.90m and against a boundary fence allowing for 10cm air gap, I have no other option and the neighbour is fine with it, it's at...