Storage shed Plans

Adapting Shed Plans To Suit Your Individual Property

Here is an email from Bill who has combined a number of shed plans that I have sent him and he has kindly given me permission to publish his email and a pdf of how he has built a shed unique to his property and landscape.
It is important to remember that if a free shed plan you receive from this site is not exactly what you want, you can always, like Bill, adapt different plans to suit your individual circumstances.

Dear John,

I’ve taken several ideas from your plans and combined them … I have a 10 x 10
shed on a 12 x 12 platform running into my rip-rap hill …the 12 x 12 platform
is on 6 x 6 x 8 ft posts ( 9 of them) and the 10  X 10 shed is off-set, leaving
me a 2 foot walk around on the front and side of the shed… I can hang garden
tools (shovels, rakes, hoes, chains, ropes, etc. on the outside of the shed -
saving room on the inside for other things that need to be out of the weather)
… We are about 80% complete … attached is a PowerPoint presentation of the
shed I’m building … I should be done by this weekend …it’s been a chore but
I think it will last a good number of years …used plenty of pressure treated
wood through the base and flooring of the shed … other details: H-tabs are
used in the roof, metal drip edging for the roof line will be installed; the
outer edge of the floor joists are notched into the posts; floor joists are 2 x
8 and th rafters and gables are 2 x 6 …standard 36″ door-way and 8′ walls.

Thanks for your help in the designs … the drawing is rough but gives you an
idea of how difficult this job was for us … Bill
it’s not to scale …it’s just a road map of how we proceeded … our biggest building problem is the height and the slope … easy jobs are very hard on an extension ladder … not a one-man job for the most part …maybe I should have invested in rental scaffolding … (hid sight is 20-20)… I’ll take some pictures when it’s done and send it to you …

Some other fun details … the posts were sunk approximately 2 feet …we used a Stihl TS420 Demo saw to cut through solid limestone rock (only 2 holes …6 inches of solid rock each) …drove 3ea 24” 3/8” rebar into each hole …used 240lbs of concrete per hole … pre-packed ½” gravel (about 3” deep) in the bottom of each hole and set the 6x6x8 pressure treated post on that gravel … trimmed the post to proper height using a laser level light for measurement and a chain … let cure for about 24 hours …

If anyone wants to email me and ask a question about this construction … they can do that as well.

Click the link below for Bill’s pdf and if you have any questions for him email me and I will put you in touch with him.

Cooper’s Shed Design 0331 2011

If you don’t feel up to adapting plans and would prefer to have a set of plans from which to work you could do worse than check out Ted McGrath’s plans-they are pretty extensive and are nearly bound to have what you are looking for. You can check them out here.

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