Building A Shed Against A Wall

1 to construct the framing for the shed s floor cut two pressure treated 2 by 4s to a length of 6 feet for the rim joists.

Building a shed against a wall.

The best method is to snap chalk lines on the shed floor to outline the truss parts. However should the wall need to br removed for whatever reasons then your shed would need to be removed too. Building a storage shed against a brick wall would only mean that you would have one lesser side to construct. Since a side wall of the shed will be higher than the other side you ll need to construct a small add on wall for the side.

I decided to use concrete deck blocks like i d used on my first shed. Stand the walls starting with the back wall. Nail each wall to the platform as you go and lock the corners together by nailing through the overhanging siding into studs. Watch and see chris reduce his shed building time to under 3 minutes.

If you re building your own roof trusses the handiest place to assemble them is right on the shed floor. Then use the chalk lines as a guide for cutting the truss patterns and assembling the trusses. To get a usable height the shed could only be 8 feet long. The slope of the original shed however put some constraints on the lean to height which would also impact the other dimensions.

Add the sides and the front. It provides a flat level stable base on which to build your shed. One of the important decisions when building a shed is the foundation. I could tuck it against the side wall the only accessible wall.

You can easily expand its dimensions in increments of 2 or 4 feet. The foundation also helps to keep the shed off the ground preventing dampness and rot. It takes years of practice to get this fast at building a backya. Line up the bottom plate with the chalk line and drive a few 3 in.

Screws or 16d nails through the plate to hold the bottom of the wall in position. Adding a lean to to existing shed would be perfect. But you have to do it before you build the walls. Building the shed the shed shown here is 6 feet long by 4 feet wide.

Building the shed roof 1 frame the top side wall of the lean to roof with 2x4 lumber.