I threw together a makeshift woodshed last year just before winter with the expectation of putting together a little nicer looking one before this winter. Well, here we are staring the winter of '15-'16 right in the face and I'm just now starting the project. This will only be my 4th winter here in Wisconsin and I haven't gotten used to how quickly they come up on me yet!I am building a 5X12 shed which should hold around 2 cords for me, depending on hou high I stack. I decided not to sink posts and just build it up on pavers. When we first moved here, I put in some fence posts 4' deep and they have heaved up 3-4" so far. That's not anything I had to deal with back in Oklahoma Since it's just a woodshed, I'll let the frost just pick it up and let it back down in the spring and see how it holds up. I started out by squaring up a frame and leveling it. Then I plumbed and squared the posts and lag bolted them in place and then mounted the joist hangers for the floor. I cut the posts to height and installed the floor joists. I got most of the floor down before I had to knock off for the day. I should get to work on it more in a couple of days and I'll update with pics when I do.
First of all Brad welcome to the north. more than Four foot frost is normal.. in fact my rental house has 7 foot stone walls and last February the floor shifted. tenants complained to housing board... my response was 125 year old house 7 foot below grade. frost is 8 feet. what do you propose I do? I propose wait til May and fix it! by May had fixed itself. Then evicted tenants put in some new ones... I like how you are doing bottom for air flow... are you going metal roof or shingles. I would recommend shingles as snow sheds quicker off metal and might mess up your fence. keep pics coming your doing a great job!
8feet!?! Holy Cow! That just ain't right! I was planning on metal but may now have to rethink that. Thanks for the heads up.
I like the start of it. The end result, packed with farwood, is what we're prolly all awaiting! Need a stretch Armstrong roof for that....
you can do it looks like 8 foot high in back 10 in front... just make sure snow has room to slide off and not hit fence.... seen a lot of southern architects put metal roofs on garages pitch to the door roof going out of garage then get pile up in front of door .. escalade and tahoes tyoes dent roof it's totaled.. yeah our February was an average 5 degrees above for the month! 25 below zero was common... you know it's cold when teenage boys say it's too cold too ride snowmobile!
I finally got to work on the woodshed a little bit today. I finished putting the floor down and then put the front and back headers on. Next, I started to put the sides on. I'm using 6X8' privacy fence panels for my sides. It's what I had used on the POS woodshed that I threw together last year so it will let me reuse them on this one. This is a shot of the type of help I was getting today but that's ok, I'm used to working by myself . This is Zeke and I was just happy that he wasn't chewing something up. I finished putting the sides on and then put the backside rafters on. Tomorrow, I hope to finish the front rafters and the top portion of the sides and front.
Do you plan to leave the opening above the fencing panels? Might be a good idea...it's a beautiful shed but air flow concerns me...I think I would leave it as is, attach roofing and be done-just my opinion, fwiw-nice looking work!
