Figured it would be nice to follow up on this, as there are several updates!!! I made a gravel ramp to get into the new garage. I also have several videos on closing in the old dog kennel to make a storage area. As well as a roof over the side door
After reading here, I began collecting pallets, and devising a shed plan. We had an old tin shed, kinda crunched up when we got here. That came down last year. It was 10 x 8, on a concrete pad with 6" walls. This was a pile of pallets when buZZsaw BRAD was here.... It is designed to contain shorts and uglies. I want to be able to split and just chuck them in, so the upper sides are open on the splitter side... I built a shelf on the 10' side, just for roasting our kindling, if we ever get hot dry weather this year. This is 10' long, 20" tall and 18" deep. Lotta dern kindling. Sca
We used 9 pallets, and a buncha wood scrounged and repurposed. Spent maybe $400, roofing and some 2x4's.... If I'd have used traditional 2x4 framing, that price would have easily doubled. The roofing needs to be shortened, and I need to figure out a siding that looks rustic, but still allows wind to dry the shorts and kindling. More pics to follow. Sca
Closed top on the back and windward sides...kinda keeps rain out. leeward sides near splitter open for hucking shorts and uglies in. That works well. Its nice to hear a dull thud of wood hitting the wood sides, over the clatter of wood hitting the tin sides of the old shed (which prolly drove neighbors nuts). it was a divine spark of wisdom, i.e. not my own idea, to add the kindling rack to the back. The kindling is segregated by age. Will make more regularly (some oak, some pine) as we go. One friend uses bark and twigs he gathers, so keeping extra on hand is always the plan. The stove takes 24" logs, but I cut everything to 16" so the shed fulla shorts is for cold days or overnights when we want to jam the stove. We also have a friend who can only burn shorts. This year, I started stacking the pallets with two 16" rows, and a void between....where shorts and uglies fit well. Perhaps we'll have less shorts stored separately in the future. At some point, ill build a wooden bench seat or something, to store a gas can in...i don't like those in the garage. It will hold a little over 3 cord if it were stacked to 6'. I'd like to dress up the windward sides, less to keep water out, more for visual continuity. Something like t111, with deck finish, and mounted on spacers to let the air move around. I'm not sure corrugated tin would look good in this 'hood. To those who posted previously, its been neat to see your projects come to life outta scrap lumber. Thanks for the inspiration!! Sca
Good lookin shed there SCA...how much trouble would it be to swap out the pallets on that side for a couple of nice "matching" pallets...might be good enough to keep the "HOA types" happy?
To remove them...they're part of the structure. So covering them seems the only idea yet. I hadn't thought of stain though....better than paint, I could try it and see how it looks. I think if it looks like pallets, that might be unsightly. Stain might just disguise that... I had considered making a louvered wall...find a whole buncha pallet wood slats & mount them vertically, each with wedges....so instead of laying flush or flat on the wall, they'd be at an angle....so seeing in would be difficult, but air would flow. Sca
Made 3 sliding doors for the pallet garage. Including wrapping the openings in trim coil, and weatherstripping. I also put blocks at the eaves between the roof rafters to block the wind and birds from getting in on top and bottom. I'm hoping to get a heat source in there and in the spring I would like to insulate.
Liked and subbed! Excellent doors! I'm doing sliding doors for my bathroom doors instead of dealing with crappy 28" inswing doors.
