Garden sheds we all have them. Whether that's a purchased shed or a built one
like this one behind me, they're fantastic for storing things or relaxing
in at the garden. In this episode I'm going to condense
five previous episodes into one because a number of you have asked for one
episode that's not so long. However, I will put links to all the other episodes
in the description below. But this will give you an understanding of what it
takes to build your own shed.
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just like this. Your not allowed to use concrete on allotment sites, so here
I decided to dig an 18 inch deep hole in the ground. This enabled me to bring in
tons of hardcore in order to build our base, at home you would just use concrete.
As you can see for the first layer I used breeze blocks and bricks. I then
moved on to larger stones then finer stones and eventually ended up with fine
grit. I then laid two foot by two foot patio slabs on top. This will create
the base that will drain and stop rats from living underneath it. We've got a
good solid base now so we can pretty much put anything down on this we know
it's not going to collapse we know he's not gonna be any issues with rats or
anything like that. The next thing is to start creating the walls, simply lay out
your timbers on the floor. Create the external timbers for the wall and then
lay in the internals. Most walls are simple to make but like here I was
adding a door and a window so the layout is a little more complicated, but just
take your time and screw these don't nail, this is stronger and can be
dismantled if it's not right. This shed will have a single sloping roof off to the
back of the shed where I will collect the water to use on the garden. For this
the front wall is around nine inches taller than the back wall. Once we have
all four walls built we simply need to bolt them together, if you have someone
to help you this is easy if not use a clamp as this is a second pair of hands.
Bolt them together or screw them the choice is yours.
Just move the walls to the marked locations and make your first corner.
ensure it is square and then place in the other walls to complete the structures
frame.
There you have it guys, all four walls are up. As you can see here, the front is
about nine inches higher than the back and that's to create the slope for the
rain to run off. But, all it needs now is for me to start putting the rafters in and
away we go. As you can see I've now got the front door in. We've started plying the
outside. Now this is a hard wood exterior ply, so we can just paint it.
This is the shed currently, and
I've changed to shuttering ply here it's still exterior
grade for the last three because that's what I had here. There you are guys, thats the back
wall finished. The roof is all done as well with corrugated sheeting.
So keeps the shed really light. I painted this shed with the dedicated
external wood paint in the color I wanted this was to help protect all
those exposed Timbers.
There we go, so we sealed all the joints and then we
basically built a corner board with that. and we've done one across the
bottom and we will seal the bottom with construction adhesive which will help
hold the slab keep some of the water out and then we'll go over that with a
silicone just to help shed the water. Now where the two joins were we've filled
with construction adhesive and that will help keep out water. And we're now going to
put in some 2x1 and screw that in its place, and and then we will be done as
far as that goes. Here it is guys. I've got a little bit more paint work to do on the shed just
touch up where they dripped a bit of paint or some of the frame work some of
the trim needs a little bit more paint, a third coat. But I thought, well this is
going to give you an idea of what it looks like how it's all set up.
Excuse the mess all around here we've got to finish the path in front of it
but the shed itself is now watertight and it's now able to be used as a
shed. When you design something inevitably you find that there are issues
with it. So, what are the issues of this shed? Well, firstly obviously we got we
used reclaimed windows and doors in here and we've got a blown pane here. We knew
that from the very first episode, but the biggest issue we have is the roof on the
shed. Now originally, I designed the shed so that we could also grow in it as well.
But now that's come to a point where I've decided against that, and there's two
reasons for it. The first reason, was last summer as you
can see it's nice a bright today, in that shed it gets absolutely boiling it's 17
foot by 14 foot of clear roof and the Sun just comes through and that heat has
nowhere to go. It gets so hot in there, last summer I couldn't even use
the shed. So that took out all of this space and I didn't get to use it, and
reason number two, is during the winter, that corrugated plastic we used then has
lots and lots of condensation. So the heat builds up in the day time in the
shed and then, through the night the cold hits that plastic and it all condenses, and
it's dripping everywhere in there. And also, it was running down, that condensation was running down
the roof and running down the back wall so
that back wall was absolutely soaking all of last winter. So let my mistakes be
a warning for you all. Corrugated sheeting is okay for cold frames, but don't use it
if you want a watertight shed. I spent an entire day ripping this roof off and
replacing it with 18mm exterior-grade OSB sheathing. This
actually strengthened the shed even more.
A lot of people they just put roofing felt down and they tack it down with
those thumbnails you know those the galvanized roofing felt nails. The
problem I have with those is that they do allow water to come into the
timber below, but also once the wind gets under it it just tears all of the
roofing felt. This is a bitumen product and it's basically adheres the felt to
the roof.
One big drawback about allotment gardens is that there is a lack of power there.
And with that lack of power means that you can't have any lighting so you're
limited the amount of time you can spend at the allotment. You can't run all sorts
of things like tools, and what-have-you okay? And as many of you have seen we
have been running tools off generators and all sorts over the years. Now that's
not to say solar is the answer for everything. However, what it's going to do
is allow us to have a fantastic amount of things that we can do from that solar.
And the very first one is to put lighting into this shed. Following the
instructions I simply attach the brackets to the solar panels. Due to the
spacing between my roof joists I had to re-drill some holes to ensure that the
bolts would be hitting a joist.
Place the panels in your chosen location. You can bolt these down or screw them as
I have here. However to prevent them being stolen all the screw heads have
been rounded over which means that the panel's would be ruined if someone tried
to steal them rendering them useless. Feed the cables from the panel's through
the shed wall, ensure to leave enough to tack the wire below the hole in a loop
this will prevent water getting in as it always goes lower than the hole before
dripping off. DO NOT connect these panels to the wires yet. OK, so on the charge
controller here, we've got a little picture, it's got one for the solar, one
for the battery, and then one for the load. Now the load is whatever we're gonna
take away from that and we're gonna put that into a junction box where we can
take off all sorts of stuff. But for these two wires we need to go into the
charge controller so we've got a positive on the left and we got the
negative on the right, the positive is always the red. So we just need to shove
that up in the hole up there as far as we can here we go, and tighten them down.
now we need to make sure that's in there really well. Same thing now with this
negative.
Right, they're gonna have to cut this one down with a little bit long.
Ok, so now we can tidy them up over there with some clips, job done.
Alright, so technically now we could link in that solar panel, and it will be live
Ok. that is now safe. We can now run two
more of these cables, which will come down to the battery. Now we're not going
to plug in the charge controller just yet. correction, the solar panels just yet,
until we get everything we want done here, as far as the battery and
everything else is concerned. They sure have protected this wire. Now, this is
quite heavy-duty wire and I know we're only 12 volt but a fair whack of power
can come down through these panels so we need to make sure that
we're secure there. So again, positive on the left.
And, we need to do the same now with the negative. So that fixing guys is just
temporary. Now all that is, is just to attach the
wires to the battery for the time being. Now this battery is 130 amp hours and
eventually we will get another couple and we'll wire them in Parallel and we'll
do a video on that when it comes to it. But for now we can connect the solar
panel up and it will be charging, It's relatively dark but I didn't want to
wait much longer, because I want to get home and have some food, it's coming up
to around about quarter past nine now. but as you can see the shed is
relatively dark, considering the time it is. But I want to show you what the lights
are like in here. So that's what the lights light up this shed like. Not bad
for a little 12-volt system. And I'm going to run through this 12-volt system
again if I turn it out,
Excuse the mess in my shed, but I just want to show you how effective these little
12-volt lights are. so again now, we're at the tunnel and in the tunnel
we've got a few lights there is only six in this main part of a tunnel. But it's
enough to be able to come up here in the winter, after work when it's pitch-black
at half past four, and there's all this stuff to go out. but it's enough for me to
get up here do some potting on or whatever I need to do. We also got two in
here as well, so as we are putting trays in here,
it's going to allow us to do that as well guys. Now you know exactly what it
takes to build a shed like this and I'm sure you'll agree that you couldn't
buy anything like this or as sturdy as this from a shop, The great thing about
building your own is that you get to control the
design and the materials that you use. And how big it is if you've enjoyed this
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and remember folks You Reap What You Sow. I'll see you in the next one. bye, bye.
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