Shed of heaven

In the new house, there's a small problem in that there's a lack of space. Not in the house itself, or in the outbuildings, but overall, what space there is is allocated for 'other stuff'. So, I need a workshop, or I should say, a second workshop. I have a small workshop with my lathe in it, and I want to keep this clear of timber work and general mucky stuff. I don't want to get crap in/on the lathe, or in/on anything I'm working on in it.

I drew up a load of plans (mostly on the train on the way to and from work), and got to it. The design works out to be 6m x 4.3m. It sits on a wooden floor with numerous little 'legs' that sit on concrete slabs.

You can see the floor framework here in the foreground (I've only just started in this shot):

The brace you can see is a neat trick. By measuring 3 feet up one side (nearest the jeep in this case), and 4 feet up the other, if the brace is 5 feet long, you know the corner is a right angle. The frame is 6x2 treated, I used treated 4x4 for the legs. For the outside legs (visible in the above shot) I made 2" concrete feet for the legs, to stave off any rotting from the legs sitting on water. In the end there were about 20 such little legs placed regularly around and underneath the floor.

This is mid-December, so I needed somewhere to work, so I rigged up the pikey workshop:

I roped in a friend for a day's work, we wanted to get the walls going. They're made by basically framing a 12mm OSB sheet with 4x2 treated, with 4x4 posts at each corner:

The floor can also be seen here - there's a polythene membrane between the framework of joists and noggins and the floor itself, which is 18mm OSB.

We got a fair way around between us, but then a storm blew up, and like the big bad wolf, it blew the shed down.:

Where we'd put the odd brace in to keep the walls square, it was fine. Otherwise, the walls didn't start out at that angle.

I got stuck in again, and fixed the walls, and with help from the same friend (Scott), we got the remaining wall panels up, and made the roof trusses:

A view from the house:

Then it was the case of completing the roof structure:

With attention to the overlaps at each side:

Then cladding it with OSB (thjs bit is tricky because you have to be careful to pick up the rafters and purlins:

Note the ever diminishing pile of OSB next to the shed.

Eventually the roof was skinned:

And then again in 50mm PUR board (think celotex):

And then again in more OSB:

And complete:

And then with shed felt (the expensive stuff  - not yer B&Q special):

Got more felting, windows, door, weather boarding,  insulate and skin inside, workbench to build, and then get some power in it for lights and plugs. Big job this.