Odd shaped shed built

[Ilya]

Hi, just wanted to share my recent journey. Took me exactly 3 months on weekends minus some weekends off travelling.

I had a rather awkward spot behind my garage that is a bit shady to growth anything, and I also needed a space to store my garden tools, wheelbarrows, etc.
So, buying was not an option.
I started with digging a shed base, filling with aggregate, compacting, paving.
Then moved on to the simple framing style top, bottom and walls. The challenge was - building it close to the fence, hence had to clad it in situ Added some vents on the back walls, as they are pretty much shaded from wind and rain by the fence.
Was cladding a painting the back walls bit by bit, as I would not be able to do that once a wall is complete.

Finished off with felt and added some gutters.

Again, not a piece of art, but a rather odd shaped structure with not a single pair of walls at right angle))

 

[Ilya]

more photos

 

[artie]

I did similar but open ended for a neighbour a good few years ago. It was a right pain.

 

[duke]

A good dry storage area now!

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

That is excellent work and great use of an irregular space.

How did you manage to install/secure the external boards after putting up the verticals?
I had a similar problem on my own shed, and the only way I could come up with, for me, was to construct the back wall outside the shed, and then to manhandle it into place. Which wasn't ideal. It was HEAVY and it was AWKWARD and it wasn't as rigid as I'd hoped which made it doubly so. Makes me cringe and judder just thinking about it...

 

[Ilya]

That is excellent work and great use of an irregular space.

How did you manage to install/secure the external boards after putting up the verticals?
I had a similar problem on my own shed, and the only way I could come up with, for me, was to construct the back wall outside the shed, and then to manhandle it into place. Which wasn't ideal. It was HEAVY and it was AWKWARD and it wasn't as rigid as I'd hoped which made it doubly so. Makes me cringe and judder just thinking about it...

Hi, that (creating a back wall on a ground with complete cladding) was my original idea. But then I realised - it is going to be very heavy, and I could not install it on my own.
What was more - I realised that because it was an odd angle, I wouldn't be able to access the back of it to check if it is level with the base. So that was out of the table.
So I framed the walls with beveled frames (those were 60-120 angles - all combinations of them) on the ground. I beveled the vertical uprights in the corners on a bandsaw. For some really wide angles I used 75*75mm fence post so that beveling them would leave enough material to screw/bolt them together. It is not shown on the photos, but I actually managed to scribe the uprights tight to the garage wall and to each other, so that there is no gap for rain to creep in and also filled with some window sealer.

Next, the cladding itself, I took boards (shiplap) one by one, screwed them from behind with a smallest drill I had and a bit chuckled straight into it without any bit holders. The wall-fence gap I kept deliberately for that drill to fit in. Each board - clamp up, level, screw with a few screws from behind to the uprights. Then painted every couple of boards.

This was the job type switch that killed the productivity)
The outermost angle - the one that is very wide - I covered additionally with a plastic angle trim, again - starting from the bottim, keeping it on a couple of bottom screws and tired with a wire at the top, so I can squeeze boareds under it. And gradually as I moved up with the boards - fix that angle to the walls from behind.

So, yeah, not the nicest shed, but the assembly puzzle was quite interesting.

Next for me on the list is the similar odd shape green house))

That will be another trapezoid, but this time I want to try making a brick base and weld it from some standard metal profiles. I did some bricklaying when I was a kid, but never welded. So that I hope would be something interesting to learn for me.

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

Wow - in the pics it just didn't look like you had enough of a gap to get anything other than a screwdriver bit held in a socket wrench into that gap (plus the length of the screw) - so I imagined a driver would have been out of the question...

I had the same concern about the base level of the wall mating to my floor - but when I realised what I had done to install my own shiplap boards - the bottom one sits lower than the frame and over the edge of the floor. So I constructed my wall with the bottom shiplap board lower than the timber that sat on the floor - so that when I eventually got it in situ, i could "pull the wall towards myself" to locate the bottom shiplap board lip flush with the edge of the floor. There was, however, a superabundance of lavish profanity in doing this...