Metal barn door

[C-Bag]

Look at tractor supply too if you need door stuff, and if they are local.

Funny, tried them and came up empty. Tractor Supply is my goto for so many things as they seem to have what the local hardware Ace doesn’t.

 

[Ulma Doctor]

Very nice work @C-Bag !!!

 

[mickri]

Great looking shed. I built a similar 10'x12' shed at my place. It is the dirty shop with all of the woodworking tools and grinders. Yours looks way better than mine.

 

[C-Bag]

Great looking shed. I built a similar 10'x12' shed at my place. It is the dirty shop with all of the woodworking tools and grinders. Yours looks way better than mine.

Thanks Chuck! I owe it all to my contractor. He told me from the git go what the price of his scratch built wood shed sided like the house with Hardee board and not being a wood guy I searched high and low for a metal solution and could not even get close. And the wood kits from like ‘Dump and Lowe’s like the Tough shed were more expensive and like he pointed out a bunch of that lumber would be garbage. He gave us several weeks as they did the bricks and fence and we couldn’t come up with a better deal. No1 nobody could utilize the whole 12x10x12 limit. He found this look on Etsy and just used that pic to show us what he would make and just used his experience with framing to build it. The windows and the door were my contribution. It is everything the crappy little metal garden shed in the background of the first pic wasn’t. Yeah I would have loved a shop twice+ that size but that gets you on the planning commission radar and that’s the slippery slope where lots of $$ goes right down the rathole and that’s not affordable.

 

[brino]

the crappy little metal garden shed in the background

Tony, at least you don't have to keep pulling the snow off it so that it doesn't collapse on your stuff.
My cheap little metal shed was such a bad idea.

It is also full of dents mostly because each time I don't duck enough and hit my head on the way in or out I punch the wall in frustration!

Brian

 

[pdentrem]

Sheds are not cheap anymore! I used an outfit called Shed in a Day, where they preassemble the walls and supply all the floor and roof components. Although it was a bit more pricy than my doing a stick build it was up in a day, with the roof on the next day. Here my neighbour is helping with the two long panels, I am in the brown coat.
Pierre

 

[woodchucker]

Here my neighbour is helping with the two long panels, I am in the brown coat.

Here is my neighbour lifting the panel in the first pic, I am in the brown coat watching.

While I like those piers, I recommend hardware cloth all around. I used 3/4 gravel and the ground hogs used the underneath as a borrow, until I put the hardware cloth around. Lesson learned. Hardware cloth from day one, because nature sees opportunities and doesn't care about your plans.

 

[C-Bag]

It is also full of dents mostly because each time I don't duck enough and hit my head on the way in or out I punch the wall in frustration!

Ain’t that the truth! I’m short but I still had to watch my head in that shed. And being 8x10 with a really low door you have to wonder who were they designing it for? If I had actually bought the thing I would have hated myself, but it came with the house. Another thing it’s taken 15yrs to get rid of. While the guys were doing the rest of work I would try and help like put the shed on CL for free to get rid of it. Many inquiries but I realized the RV drive that was the access point to the shed was a maze with materials for the new shed so started to take it apart to stage it outside the gate. That quickly turned into a bad idea as the whole area was riddled with gopher and mole runs so bad you couldn’t hardly walk much less an ladder. Ended up tearing it down and hauling it to the recycle. Glad to see the totally rusty worthless thing go.

I did end up with 14 buried cinder blocks that were the base for 2x10” floor boards in crap shed and I ended up using them for the small retaining wall around the corner of the pad that’s in front of the new maxi shed. The guys both said they had never worked a job where there was so much repurposing. This whole area is hill side or rolling dunes so there is no flat ground. Used 12 of the 14 blocks which I would have had to buy. Worked out perfect.

 

[C-Bag]

It is the dirty shop with all of the woodworking tools and grinders.

I watched your shed build and stole that idea from you. All my woodworking stuff is out there now and it has a 12x16’ pad in front of it. Perfect for rolling the tablesaw, beadblast cab etc out there and going to town. I have a 110v outlet on the side of the house right next to the pad so I have power. I’d like to put an all weather 220v plug on that corner of the house to be able to run my welder and plasma back there too.

One of my many long range projects is to replace the falling down wood RV gate with an all metal 6’x9’ gate. So I would like to fab the supports and frame out on the shed pad where I’d have room to work. Believe it or not that mess of a gate was one of the first things on the to go list 15yrs ago. But I had to have the design I liked in my head then the materials(found on CL) and then this whole wave of change before I could get to it. The gate is the opposite end of the backyard from where we started.

 

[mickri]

A way to get a bigger shed without involving permits is to build two 10x12's with a small gap between. Then fill in the gap and open a big doorway in each shed. The small gap becomes a storage area. You end up with either a 10x26 or a 12x22 shed.