Hi Folks,
Not strictly a bushcraft question but I know many on here have probably built a shed, so here goes. In the next few weeks I hope to make a start on building a shed and am at the sketching stage. The shed will be timber but built on short 'stub' walls about 18" or so high. It will have a concrete floor slab. I will probably use the floor slab as a place to construct the four wall frames first before I build the walls as I'm tight for space. When the frames are constructed I'll put them to one side while I build the walls. The shed frame would overhand these walls by say 1/2" all round so that the cladding will weatherproof the top of the walls. I am wondering about how I will build these walls. Brick would be nice as it would match the house but I'm wondering if a single leaf of brickwork would be substantial enough. Or would I need a 9" (a 2-brick wide) wall. The other thing that I was pondering is, when I come to fix the bottom 4"x2" member of the shed timber frame to brickwork below (I was going to use the kind of bricks that have 3 hollow vertical hollow 'pockets' and fill them with concrete, I would need to fill them before placing the frame in position) I would either have to drill and rawl-plug or cast in a piece of wood to screw into I guess?
The other option I thought about was using 9" hollow concrete blocks (the type with the 2 hollow vertical pockets). The advantage I see here is that, as the frame will sit on the outside edge of the wall, I could mount anchor bolts in the bottom member of the frame and then concrete them in after I've erected the frame since I can still access the hollow sections of the 9" wide block. I hope that makes sense. The downside is blocks are not as 'pretty' as bricks ...
So I'm not sure which was to go.
Any comments or ideas would be welcome.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Not strictly a bushcraft question but I know many on here have probably built a shed, so here goes. In the next few weeks I hope to make a start on building a shed and am at the sketching stage. The shed will be timber but built on short 'stub' walls about 18" or so high. It will have a concrete floor slab. I will probably use the floor slab as a place to construct the four wall frames first before I build the walls as I'm tight for space. When the frames are constructed I'll put them to one side while I build the walls. The shed frame would overhand these walls by say 1/2" all round so that the cladding will weatherproof the top of the walls. I am wondering about how I will build these walls. Brick would be nice as it would match the house but I'm wondering if a single leaf of brickwork would be substantial enough. Or would I need a 9" (a 2-brick wide) wall. The other thing that I was pondering is, when I come to fix the bottom 4"x2" member of the shed timber frame to brickwork below (I was going to use the kind of bricks that have 3 hollow vertical hollow 'pockets' and fill them with concrete, I would need to fill them before placing the frame in position) I would either have to drill and rawl-plug or cast in a piece of wood to screw into I guess?
The other option I thought about was using 9" hollow concrete blocks (the type with the 2 hollow vertical pockets). The advantage I see here is that, as the frame will sit on the outside edge of the wall, I could mount anchor bolts in the bottom member of the frame and then concrete them in after I've erected the frame since I can still access the hollow sections of the 9" wide block. I hope that makes sense. The downside is blocks are not as 'pretty' as bricks ...
So I'm not sure which was to go.
Any comments or ideas would be welcome.
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