Building a wooden tool shed requires carpentry skills and tools.
If you are looking to have a secure place to store your tools in an organized and weather proof way, you should consider building a tool shed. Building a wooden tool shed requires some carpentry know-how and familiarity with common carpentry tools. You will need to find out if a building permit is necessary before building your tool shed and draw up some plans based on the dimensions you would like before starting.
Instructions
1. Check with your local authorities for any permits that may be required for building your tool shed. Set up your anchoring/foundation if you are not building on top of a concrete slab by sinking in 4x4 foot posts into the ground in concrete, allowing the posts to shortly extend above ground.
2. Construct your floor by cutting your floor joists, 4x4 foot skids, rim joists and band boards to the proper lengths for your shed. Assemble the frame by using a power drill and screws, or 16d nails. Measure and nail in the joists at even distances making sure that the halfway point joist is exact.
3. Attach the floor frame to the anchor/foundation posts using 16d galvanized nails. Lie out and secure your plywood floor sheeting also using nails along the frame.
4. Construct the walls of your tool shed using the floor as a size guide. Measure and cut your top and bottom plates and mark off your wall and door stud locations. Measure, cut and secure all studs to the top and bottom plates and attach siding to all areas that are intended to be covered. Repeat this process for all walls leaving at least one space clear of siding for a door.
5. Stand your walls up and nail each wall stud to the floor joists to secure the walls. Use scrap pieces of wood to brace the walls at an angle from the edge to a floor joist until they all connect.
6. Leave the wall that will have the doors lying flat and attach your doors using screw hinges to the door studs first before standing that wall up. Once the doors are hung, attach that wall to the rest of the shed.
7. Construct the roof by first measuring two 4x6 piece of lumber to the width of your shed to be the roof's trusses. Draw out an outline for your trusses at whatever pitch you would like your shed roof to have. Measure and cut the pieces and attach the trusses using aluminum mending plates.
8. Line up your trusses to the top plates of your walls and nail them down, one at a time. Nail your plywood sheeting to the trusses once they are all secured to the top plates of the wall. To protect the roof, lay ice and water barrier sheets before nailing down roofing shingles.
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