How to build a shed

 This building does not impress imagination with its architectural forms. Nevertheless, the need for building a shed arises from every owner of the estate. Who wants to stock up for a home treasure or workshop, someone is going to breed hens or rabbits there. It is well when the thought of a shed comes to mind during the building of a dwelling house. There is no problem with the material at this time.

Excessive blocks, bars, sheet metal - you can use everything. But when the idea of a utility room appears later, then you have to break your head over what to reduce it. In this article, we offer an overview of the options tested in practice. We hope that getting acquainted with them will help you to solve the question of how to build a shed in the country.

What materials can serve as a structure?

1. Frame sheds

Frame construction technology is applicable to any structures. Sheds are no exception to the rule. The basic idea is to create a rigid spatial “skeleton” that perceives the load. It can be assembled from a wooden beam or from a profile pipe. For the sheeting are suitable for any sheet and moulded materials.

1. Wood (board)

An inexpensive option for any tasks: animal holding, garage, warehouse, workshops. A good host always has in stock a bit of a beam, a couple of cubes of a board. They can be used to erect such a building. Do not pick up wooden frame racks in the ground. Even antiseptic impregnation cannot protect them from rotting for a long time. Therefore, before starting the frame, you need to think about the foundation.

It is best to use columnar or false. After that, begin to mount the support frame from the beam. Put the racks to it. On their upper ends, you expose the racks of a single-hinged roof. The wooden “skeleton” is covered with a blackboard. In the facing of a conventional trimming board, over time, cracks appear. Therefore, for work, it is better to use spun bonded material. If it is not present, then you need to fill the joints with wooden strips.

Another simple way to protect the walls from blowing - the installation of the sheathing by the “spruce”, when each upper row of boards is leaning its edge on the bottom. For the shed building
for wintering cattle, it is necessary to attach to the racks a wind and waterproof film and fill it with a vertical bar for fixing the sheath. After that, warming begins by laying a heater in the inner part of the frame.

1. Metal (corrugated board)

Remains of the metal assembling after the installation of the fence can be suited for a shed. The frame is best for it to make a profile tube, but a wooden beam is also suitable for this purpose. For old water pipes, you can find the application. Concreting them in the ground, you will receive reliable racks.

Use steel pipes as columns. Sheet metal without heat insulation is the option for cold sheds. If the building is taken to a workshop or for the maintenance of animals, then its walls from the inside will have to be covered with a heater.

1. Slate

It is a popular handicraft material for public construction. You can use the old wave slate remaining after replacing the roof. The best foundation for fixing it is wooden racks and runways. The large area of the surface reduces the installation time. Resistance to frost, moisture and sun several times increases the life of such a construction compared to the board.

1. Straw

When people think about how to build a shed from scratch, few of them realize that in this capacity they can use the conventional straw. More precisely, pressed blocks from it. In the countryside, you can always buy this cheap and environmentally friendly material at a low cost. Straw “bricks” do not burn. They are strong enough and keep warm well. Therefore, pressed blocks of straw are often used to fill the gaps in a wooden frame.

1. Pallets

You can buy them by visiting any wholesale base. As for lining, pallets are not used. There are too large spaces between the boards. The walls are built from wooden pallets. To do this, they are placed on the foundation and fit between them with bolts or threaded pins.

1. Sheds of blocks, brick and stone

Blocks made of noodle foam and aerated concrete are most often used for the construction of solid commercial buildings? Their main advantages are low price, large size, precise geometry of faces and low thermal conductivity. When using a two-pitched roof you can do without additional insulation.

1. Beams and sleepers

 When building a house with logs or timber, you need to buy them in such a way as to be enough for the sheds. Buildings from one material look much better than multi-type. It is better to trust the experts. Many of those who have done this job on their own, are later honestly admitted in mistakes. For a cold warehouse, it will be cheaper and easier to assemble a simple frame, embossing it with a slate, a board or metal profile.

How to begin the construction?

A shed is necessary for a cottage or garden plot design. In order to install it, there is no need to use the services of professionals; everything can be done by you. Before you build a shed with your own hands, you must understand the subtleties of laying the foundation.

Construction of any economic building can be carried out from a variety of materials, because they are not subject to special requirements, except dry, heat and reliable protection from precipitation. And today we will tell you how to make a shed.

1. CHOOSE PLACE OF LOCATION

Building a shed is a task that cannot be solved in a hurry. The structure will serve not a dozen years, so it is important that it organically “fit” into the overall landscape of the farmland. We are starting to work on drawing up a plan-scheme of the location of future outbuildings. Determine the place where the house, sauna, children's yard, car, sports ground, a toilet will stand. And then choose a place for a shed.

Some people build it in depths, away from interesting eyes. Others prefer to place it closer to the house; the third one is given a construction site unsuitable for growing garden crops.

Where will your shed be, depends on the general zoning of the plot and on what material it will be made and how it is decorated. If desired, the most careless and at the same time the very functional structure in the country can turn into a design art object, which will become a worthy decoration of the plot.

1. HOW TO BUILD SHED: Various types of sheds

Variant 1

Let’s consider the cheapest and fastest construction option. Building a shed with your own hands, you must take into account the above description. It will take several hours of work but will serve the faith and truth of 6-8 years.

Stages of construction work:

• Align the selected place for construction (you can pour it with gravel).

• Drop the four 3-meter pillars to a depth of 60 cm.

• Wrap the bottom of the pillars with an oilcloth and fix it using a joiner's stapler. This prevents premature rotting of supports and prolongs the life of the structure.

• Make the rear wall pillars 20 cm lower than the front. This will provide the slope of the roof of the future shed.

• Make a lower strap. Take the 50 * 50 bars and nail them to the pillars at a height of 10 cm using the building level.

• Make the top bundle exactly the same as the bottom.

• Divide the distance from the bottom to the upper bars in half and nail another 4 bars.

• Now build the walls. Push the boards vertically to the bottom, middle and top bars.

• Then build a roof. At equal distances to the bars of the upper binding, attach 3 crossbars, which will serve as rafters.

• Now nail the boards.

• Attach the rain drain. It can be bought, but it can be made from improvised materials, for example, from plastic bottles.

• Lay the floor, set the door, and make shelves for business needs.

  

Variant 2

Frame shed - this is not always a structure, completely devoid of design ideas. It takes several days for you to build an original and solid structure. But the life expectancy will increase to 15-20 years. The shed can be very attractive.

When building such a shed you can realize yourself as a beginner architect. What will be the result of construction depends on your desire and the amount of money that you are ready to invest in construction.

Stages of construction work:

• Align the playground. Make the foundation. Since the weight of the structure will be light, fill the column foundation. To do this, take 1.5 meters of asbestos pipes and pour concrete: mix sand, rubble and cement in a ratio of 3 * 4 * 2, add water and bring to the consistency of liquid sour cream. Give the foundation a “stand” for a few days.

• All wooden building materials impregnated with a special antiseptic protective device.

• Begin to build a shed for giving your hands with a wooden frame. On the foundation, put the bottom bundle around the floor and immediately create logs for the floor. The floor can be laid immediately; it is possible in the last stage of construction.

• Make the bottom of the logs. Attach the vertical racks to the strap. To it, nail the upper binding of beams.

• The number of racks to count is simple: they are installed in the corners of the structure, as well as in place of window and door openings.

• Install the support racks.

• Build a roof. It is easier to perform a single-hill, but the most attractive building looks like a double-skinned roof.

• “Sew” the walls with truncated boards, put windows and doors. Then you can embroider the entire structure with a cloth or siding.

• Let’s carry out interior decoration of the building. Make shelves, etc.

  

Variant 3

THE SHED OF CONCRETE BLOCKS

 For the erection of economic structures, including sheds, summer cottages often use foam blocks. Such structures are comfortable and durable. In keeping with the construction technology, the term of their exploitation is up to 30 years. But there is a drawback in this decision to build a “capital” house block: it is difficult to build a shed from foam blocks with your own hands. You will need help from specialists. The cost of such a building is quite expensive, given that it is a non-residential house.

Stages of construction work:

• Fill the ribbon foundation. Roll over the surface of the foundation waterproofing material.

• Start laying the foam block using an ordinary solution with a ratio of cement and sand 1 * 4. Maximum seam thickness - 5 mm. Put the angles first, use the building level and the temple to align the horizontal and vertical surfaces of the structure.

• Then lift the walls. At the bottom and at the top make a reinforcing belt.

• Do a roof; the principle of work is the same as in the construction of a frame shed.

• Insert windows, door. Lay the floor.

• Do interior decoration.

• The walls can be plastered, but it is a intensive work. It is much faster to embroider them with drywall. Reliable and beautiful.

  

How to insulate the shed - the installation manual with your own hands

Usually, work on the construction of households buildings owners do with their hands, and often there is a question of how to insulate the shed. It is desirable to know before the building, what will be used for the shed, in advance to predict the way of insulation and implement it.

Warming options:

• The most optimal option is the construction of two parallel walls with a heater.

• Roof, as well as walls, should be warmed up. To do this, you need to put a heater on the logs and squeeze from the top boards. Be sure to do a sloping roof so that moisture does not penetrate inside.

• You can put wooden pallets with straw on the floor to prevent cold from landing.

This method is the cheapest since everything can be done with materials and does not require special skills.

If you decide to rebuild the old barn for the winter, there are several ways to do this.

• Planking

The easiest option is to make a second wall of the boards with space for the heater. In this case, the boards will need to nail overlay, to avoid cracks between them.

To form a wall without gaps, the first two boards are retold, and then it is closed from the top by the third. Too curved edges can be cut in advance with a circular saw.

In the process of wall construction, it is necessary to fill the heater in the receiving compartment. Suitable for this purpose are sawdust, but sometimes you can use dry leaves, pine needles. The advantage of sawdust is that it is small, dry, and the price is virtually nil. It can be obtained in any carpentry workshop.

It will be necessary to pick up the ceiling and fill the sawdust there. To get a box for a heater, you need to make a false floor, stuffing a second layer of boards over the rafters. From above they are covered with waterproof material and nailed up every 50 centimetres.

To make a warm door, the boards slip across the diagonal, and between them, a non-permeable material is inserted. With such a design, you keep the heat as much as possible inside the room.

The shed is one of the necessary structures in the country. From what material to build it - only you ought to decide. Regardless of whether you choose an economy variant, or a solid frame fence, or durable from foam blocks, the shed should be in a convenient place. It needs to arrange a picturesque path, and next to - to break the flower beds or plant decorative shrubs. So to build a shed from scratch is not so hard. You ought to have only a bit of skill and patience.