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Update after a couple of weeks... Finishing off the doors. I decided to clad the doors with the same cladding as the walls. Partly because it looks consistent but also because I had some leftover from the rest of the cladding. It might have been nice if I'd had the foresight (and amount...

My current plan, according to Mike's original design. is to cut off the DPM at or above ground level and seal it with liquid rubber to the slab. This gives the slab some above ground exposure to release any moisture absorbed either during the pour or from rainfall/splashback. I'll dig a bit of a...

Rails on, hinges mounted... And they work! (so far)... Still to do... Clad the door Door bolts, handles and lock Gutters Soffits Insulation Lining Floor Electrics/Lighting Maybe a bit of a tidy up at some point?

Progress update, over the course of the last few weekends... Battening, went up fairly quickly and no major issues. Lots of splinters though... And then on to cladding. Delivery was interesting, truck just about squeezed into our drive, a little bit squeeky bum. And the crane only took out...

Yep, this is my exact plan. I’ve been watching Robin Clevett on YouTube, has lots of good tips and follows essentially the above design for cladding

Life has been getting in the way a little, progress has not been as rapid as I had hoped. Wrap is on... It went reasonably smoothly, and managed to get the whole shed covered with about 10cm of spare left over from the 50m roll. 😅 Roof's on... I didn't have a roof ladder or anything so...

Sorry, I’d be using the full corrugated panels, Onduline Classic.

So now working out what to do with the membrane and battens on the roof. I was planning on membrane on the OSB and then vertical battens (to allow any water to run off) and then cross-battens to mount the Onduline. But do I really need battens? Onduline documentation says you can mount direct to...

Roof is up, starting to feel like a building now... I just realised I didn't take any pictures between the rafters going up and the OSB going on. More pictures in between stages next time. I did take some pictures of this jig I knocked together to cut the birdsmouth with the circular saw (just...

I was thinking those angled hangers, so no cut needed. But changed my mind when I saw the cost. £8 each. I figured it would make placing and nailing/screwing a bit easier. So they’ve gone out the window

Yes, it’s definitely product/component focused rather than large projects like architecture

That’s just a screenshot of the design interface. It also does nice renders with materials and lighting and such. If you can do sketchup, fusion shouldn’t be much of a leap. It’s the same ‘sketch then extrude, repeat’ solid modelling paradigm. I find the precision you can get in fusion is much...

Oh, I forgot to add them to the design but ties across the rafters on at least 50% of the rafters

Right, new plan, aiming to keep as much of what I've already built as I can but beef it all up... 1) Take off the trusses and top plates, put new top plates in that span the joins in the framing panels. Should stiffen the walls up and help transfer loads from the roof more evenly. Take off the...

No need to apologise, any advice is most welcome. The design of the roof was essentially copied from my old shed. Probably (definitely) not the best design methodology and could be improved by those who know more than me, but my logic is 'it worked ok in the old shed for 10 years, should be...

The gap is only wider than it is tall because I was using up some shorter offcuts. The only job that piece has is to support that span of roof OSB and I figured the extra 5cm gap would be fine. Not sure I'm explaining myself there...

Sunday’s efforts… Frame is now essentially done. Just need to place and screw the noggins and then on to the roof

It probably would have been. But I built the trusses this weekend. I have a separate shed for timber storage so not really something I was worried about. I was more worried about head height and the ability to move longer items inside the workshop

Ok. Do I put the DPM on top or underneath the DPC? Or does it not matter? And what do I do with the ties? Bend them down over the top of the DPC/DPM combo and screw through it? Do I need to seal up the hole again after? Thanks for your help btw

I'm following this diagram so far. The DPM goes under the slab and is cut off at ground level, leaving the edge of the slab and brickwork exposed. Then an additional DPM is laid above the concrete and up the internal sides of the brickwork up to floor level. Is this no good? It's not too late to...