Dr.Al
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I seem to be forever trying to find a little bit of extra space here and there for storage. Hopefully sometime in the next couple of years I'll manage to move house and gain a bit more room in general, but at the moment I'm looking for a better place (than the dining room) to keep a bicycle.
There is a tiny amount of room down the side of the house by a side gate (which we only use for taking cardboard recycling to the front of the house) so we've decided we can sacrifice access to the side gate if it'll gain us a small upright bike shed (the cardboard can be taken down the lane, which we already use for the wheelie bins).
I've never built a shed before (apart from one built from a flat pack "kit", which doesn't really count) so I'm hoping to get some advice. It'll go here:
(and yes, I'll get rid of the weeds first!)
My initial thought is that the wooden frame will look something like this (I haven't started thinking about door frames, cladding or roof yet and the drawing doesn't show joinery, but I'll probably join the lengths together into frames with half-lap joints):
The door will be on the left-hand side as you look at that picture. The rear wheel will fit on the lower level, the front wheel will be up near the roof; the saddle and handlebars will poke out into the upper level. Rough external dimensions are about 2 m tall with the lower level 870 mm wide and 920 mm deep. The upper level is 870 mm wide and about 400 mm deep. The step size is 200 mm (dictated by the space it'll sit in).
As I won't have access to the sides or the back when it's in place, the wall frames will have to be built and clad separately and then plonked into place afterwards.
Questions then...
1. Does this look like a vaguely sensible design for the shed frame?
2. Given it's a very small shed, I'm thinking it won't need to be made out of very thick chunks of wood (the cladding will add quite a lot of strength to the frame pieces anyway). I'd like it to be as cheap as reasonably possible (it's hopefully only going to be in service for a couple of years), so what would make a sensible timber size for the pieces that make up the frame?
3. Anything really obvious I'm forgetting?
There is a tiny amount of room down the side of the house by a side gate (which we only use for taking cardboard recycling to the front of the house) so we've decided we can sacrifice access to the side gate if it'll gain us a small upright bike shed (the cardboard can be taken down the lane, which we already use for the wheelie bins).
I've never built a shed before (apart from one built from a flat pack "kit", which doesn't really count) so I'm hoping to get some advice. It'll go here:
(and yes, I'll get rid of the weeds first!)
My initial thought is that the wooden frame will look something like this (I haven't started thinking about door frames, cladding or roof yet and the drawing doesn't show joinery, but I'll probably join the lengths together into frames with half-lap joints):
The door will be on the left-hand side as you look at that picture. The rear wheel will fit on the lower level, the front wheel will be up near the roof; the saddle and handlebars will poke out into the upper level. Rough external dimensions are about 2 m tall with the lower level 870 mm wide and 920 mm deep. The upper level is 870 mm wide and about 400 mm deep. The step size is 200 mm (dictated by the space it'll sit in).
As I won't have access to the sides or the back when it's in place, the wall frames will have to be built and clad separately and then plonked into place afterwards.
Questions then...
1. Does this look like a vaguely sensible design for the shed frame?
2. Given it's a very small shed, I'm thinking it won't need to be made out of very thick chunks of wood (the cladding will add quite a lot of strength to the frame pieces anyway). I'd like it to be as cheap as reasonably possible (it's hopefully only going to be in service for a couple of years), so what would make a sensible timber size for the pieces that make up the frame?
3. Anything really obvious I'm forgetting?