How To Build A Shed By Yourself DIY
147 Video Views·Oct 28, 2022
Building a shed by yourself. How to build and make your own garden shed man cave tiny house by yourself diy. This is how I built my 8 x 12 shed by myself just using regular materials. Pallets may be cheap but this will last. I built this shed in 4 short days. I used steel roofing and siding for low maintenance. You could build this as a pole barn too and make it permanent. I chose to put it on skids so I can move it if necessary down the road if I want to have it in a different location. I did a 8/12 pitch roof to give more room for storing stuff in the attic. You could easily go bigger if you wanted and live in it for a tiny house if it was insulated well.
Hey guys this is Paul from Smart Easy DIY. Today I wanted to make a video to show you how I made
this 8x12 shed for storing my tools and different things like that. This isn't really that complicated
to do. It requires a few skills but hopefully I'll be able to show you kind of step by step some of
the things that I did. Some of the things I did some time lapses just to kind of shorten the video.
I didn't want to make an incredibly long video so hopefully this will help you and give you some
ideas of how I did it. I'm just kind of in the middle of it here. I got some different stuff
here going on and I just got the base done. It's 8x12 give you a reference and got stuff kind of
sitting around everywhere here. Some of my lumber there's an old door I salvaged that I'm gonna use
and just working off my truck here and anyways so yeah I'll kind of update you as it goes along here.
All right guys so what I did is use two 4x6s for the bottom there just for the skids in case you
ever want to move it and then I'm using 2x6 8s. I'm just going to do two foot on center. I think
that'll be plenty strong for what I need. My skids aren't exactly straight so to make sure that I get
it nice and straight I put a string along there once I get the two edge ones up and I square it
across corners make sure that the thing is square. So first I just nailed those joists with galvanized
nails but my nailer didn't want to drive them very well because they're ring shank. I ended up
putting some nails in and also putting some screws in just to make sure they're anchored good.
All right so I got all the framing done and I'm ready to put plywood on.
So I'm using treated plywood for the floor using treated 2x6s. Everything on the bottom
is treated and remember if you're nailing treated to use galvanized nails.
Next thing I'm doing is laying out truss rafters before I do anything with the walls and all that.
So I laid it out on top of this thing here because this is exactly the size that I need
and I decided to go with an 8x12 pitch. 4x12 just wasn't going to give me enough room in the end
here because on the backside there I'm planning to make a door to access up in the rafters from
the outside to store stuff long stuff. So anyways so what I did first is I just cut an 8x12 on the
ends of these guys right here and then I lined it up with the bottom right here because I know this
where it needs to go as far as spacing and then so I just did that with these top ones
and screwed them down temporarily to the floor here. Then I laid this one on top of this
and figured out what the angle is and cut that and put it right in place.
So I just kind of got it tacked together right now as you can see. So then the next thing I'm
planning to do is make plywood gussets for this bottom part right here and then for the peak up
here. So I'll show you that once it's all put together. So I got my plywood patches cut in my
particular instance it was 24 of this first kind and then 12 of the other because the end trusses
only get them on the inside they don't get them on the outside. All right so I got a layout here
and I wanted to show you really quick what I did and you can do this if it works for you.
Now that I got it all set up here I just screwed a block here so it can't go up any further than
this and I screwed some up there in the peak as you can see there and I did some down at the bottom
here. Now what all this is is I just decided I want an eight inch overhang so I had to do this
six and a half and then once my inch and a half goes on the outside there it'll be eight inches.
So that's what I decided to do on this one hopefully it's big enough hopefully it looks
okay on the building. Anyways and so now that you got your jig all together what I do anyways is
unscrew it and then you can use one of those for cutting the rest of them so they're all the same
and then once you're all set then you can start assembling. So once I'm working on my trusses here
I kind of showed the time lapse of me doing one but what I like to do is I like to screw
the peaks together up there I slide them down and then screw them together and then I like to
put a screw in right here that way it keeps it tight against the jig there do that on both sides
then I also like to put a screw in down there when I put this bottom piece on do that on both
sides and then I can start doing patches and I'm nailing my patches on my nails are a little bit
long so I'm angling it for the first side and when I do the other side it's thick enough
I can just nail it straight on but my nails are two and three eighths ideally I should have two
inch nails. Okay so now my trusses are all built so the middle trusses get double patches the end
trusses only get patches on one side because of getting steel on the outside so I've been
cutting studs here you can see I'm laying out my walls here I decided to go for about seven foot
high for the sides I wanted to go a little taller I think typically they're six and a half or so on a
shed but I'm going to go seven because I have this big man door I think I showed you before but I
want to make sure that can fit in here and I'm just going to go single top plate because it's
just a shed doesn't need too much so I'm going to use my nice flat deck to build my wall here
just studs two foot on center and then I'm gonna put them all off to the side build them all and
then stand them up well guys it's a new day on day two here I got done all I could last night
and it got dark on me so that's as far as I got all right well anyway so I just wanted to go over
a couple things here quick I'm getting ready to set trusses and I set the walls last night but
I braced them this morning so what I would recommend this is entirely up to you how you
want to do it but show you how I did it on each wall I put a brace at about 45 or you know just
approximately 45 is the perfect brace anyways but it's nothing too critical but make sure
everything is level and then I measure across corners too to make sure that your walls are nice
and square and everything and then what I did here I'm going to show you quick what I did for setup
so I'm going to set my trusses on the end here so I just put a two by four on the outside there
made it stick up high enough so it for sure catches the peak I can't put it right in the
middle because the windows there ideally you'd put it right in the middle to catch the peak but
anyway so what I did you can see how I fastened it there just on the outside I put a couple blocks
just to make sure put some screws in it so it's easy to take off and um yeah so that's what I'm
going to do to catch my first truss and set it up there and then I can brace all the others off of
that well the trusses are set that went really quick I'm actually standing up on top of my truck
to get this video because it's kind of far down there anyways just to get the elevation to show
the trusses here a little bit as you can see the truss setting went really well I did that time
lapse of it just thought you would enjoy that maybe and anyways so you might be wondering about
how secure these are well if it's windy at all I wouldn't recommend just setting them up like that
but with me putting two screws on one side of the stud up into the truss on that side and then
the opposite side over there they kind of have opposite tension and then with bracing the ends
so pretty soon I'm gonna be putting the roof nailers on but in the meantime since it's really
calm these things set pretty well that way so it was just about out of my reach but I was able to
do it and anyway just to give you ideas that you can do it yourself if you can reach it like I
could so anyways yeah I just wanted to show you what I did and now I'm gonna get some roof nailers
on well I'm ready to set the door and it's kind of not the greatest looking door as you've seen
before I just have it laying there but it's a free door you know so I'm gonna try to get it in here
it's a 42 inch door and that's kind of unusual normally they're very expensive but since it's
free I'm gonna make it work for my shed here all right so I got all my framing done I'm ready for
steel I wanted to show you quick what I did on the overhangs here I put a little block in the end
like that and you'll see why and then I got blocking up through there so I have something
to screw the soffit into and along here I'm supporting it every three feet that should be
sufficient for the sides so I just wanted to show you what I did there and I'm ready for steel as
long as it doesn't rain on me okay so first of all I'm gonna do corrugated on the soffit and
on the siding I decided and do regular standard rib on the roof which I'll show you later once
it's all done I wanted to show you quick how I am cutting this this is DIY so you just got to do
what you got to do but anyways I got some pallets here that I got laid down and I got some cover
sheets that came with it that get the scratches so I put that on the bottom upside down on this
corrugated with the tool I have it works best to cut it upside down depending on where it lands
in the rib so I put the one underneath to protect it and then I'm cutting on top of that for my
soffit so I'm ripping all my soffit at eight inches wide and I'll do a quick time lapse showing
what I'm using here and this awesome tool that I'm using it's an attachment that goes on your drill
I'll link right up here in the top corner where I did a video demonstrating how well that thing
works so if you're doing much metal cutting at all it's worthwhile checking it out I'll include
a link in the video description below the video where I got it for a really good price you guys
can check it out there check out how awesome it works for this all right so looking at the shed
here I did painted corrugated steel on the outside I did regular steel on the roof the regular
standard rib I just wanted to change it up a little and do something different the door of
course I didn't get time to finish yet I gotta wait for warm weather because I had to do this
kind of over a course of a couple weeks so just wanted to show you really quick we'll approach
here I still got to do a step it's a little bit dark in here but there you can kind of see I put
a window in the back there as well so it's a little more light in here but it's really quite roomy
and this is with it all done of course you can see looking out there now what I wanted to do this
was just a thought that I had but I want to store some long stuff up in the peak there so I put a
little access door in the back corner back there which I'll show you from the outside it might not
be ideal but I wanted to be able to get some long stuff in here a door that you hardly ever have to
access but in case you do you have that option all right so I'm just going to walk around here
kind of show you what I did the color that I went with was forest green on the roof
and desert brown on the siding all right just to show you this access hole in the back here
I put stainless steel bolts from the inside out and I put wing nuts on the outside you can see
the bottom kind of stands open a little bit I'm missing a bolt yet I need to put another one in
there just so it lays nice and tight and the top is tucked up under the overhang there so I never
have to worry about rain coming in so I just wanted to show you I need to get a step ladder
to get up there but that's just so I have some 10 foot siding and stuff that I can't flex and
get up in the rafters from the inside so I want to be able to access it from the outside for the
really long stuff thing about this shed that you will notice is that I did overhangs on it all the
way around and I could have saved a lot of money and time probably by not doing overhangs and you
know thinking about it now that I did the project it would have been a lot simpler and easier to do
it without the overhangs so if you want to make it a lot faster just skip the overhangs but I guess
it all depends on what you're looking for in a building for me I just like the looks of overhangs
on a building I just think it makes them look a lot better but it definitely did take me a lot
longer so you can decide as you go how you want to do it all right guys well I hope you enjoyed
this little project that I did on the shed and like I said I couldn't show near everything because
it would take way too long but I just wanted to show you some steps so it kind of gives you some
ideas on the bottom there I still need to build a step that's what I'm going to do below the door
but I got a temporary step in place and that's just a project down the road so for now I can
get my tools and generator and stuff like that in out of the weather and that's the purpose of this
shed so all right guys I hope you enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up and subscribe
to my channel for more projects in the future and thanks for watching guys