New Shed

Saw a snek in here last time I mowed, so I decided to make a place for it a little further away from the house.

Looks like a good spot

Made me up a form to put a small concrete pad for the wood pile

Mixing concrete by hand is a pretty good workout

Got it poured and relatively level

Smoothed over with a trowel, and broom swept for a non-slip surface

Signing my work

All done! Right?

Nope, my boss at Lowry's had a big pile of old pallets for free, so I grabbed a few, planning to go ahead and make a shed out of the boards

... and some more concrete to make a bigger pad

Ten bags

Made use of my concrete mixer this time (note to self: put the water in FIRST, start it up, and slowly pour the concrete powder in).

Not even with the first one, but my inspector said it was fine. ... I'm my own inspector

DW+CL, for David Ward and Carrie Lee (my wife's maiden name) :)

New pad all done

Now for the framing. I married together two 2x4's for the posts, because I read somewhere that it was less prone to bowing and such, because it was two different woodgrains working with each other... but mostly because 2 2x4s is way cheaper than 1 4x4

And side boards

And a few more structural support boards

Originally, I had decided that I couldn't use the pallet boards because they were too old and brittle. But in the end, I found a use for them after all...

Furring strips! Yaay!

Got some discount metal sheeting from here and there, and got the roof on

And then the west wall. I made a little nook for the firewood to be stacked away from the rest of the shed interior

and finally, the east wall. I had forgotten that the last piece of metal was a different color

Used the scrap pieces to make a skirting for the storage building wall, so I don't have to worry about crawly things coming at me from underneath it

Lawn mower and bicycles now have a place out of the weather

And the firewood is further away from the house