How To Build A Shed eBook

How To Build A Shed e-Book

Book Description (scroll down to view pages from the book)
50 pages of shed building information. The How To Build a Shed book includes all of the information found on our website teaching you how to build everything on the shed including the shed wood skid foundation, framed floor, shed walls and installing sheet siding and also includes many specialized details such as different roof framing types. The shed book is intended to go along with a set of shed plans so you will use your plans to get the dimensions and the shed building book to understand how to frame it. This allows you to use the instructions in the book to build any size of shed.

The roof of a shed determines the style of the shed. Each roof style has a different construction method. Our Shed building book includes instructions on how to build the following styles of shed roofs:

Gambrel or barn style with 4 roof planes
Lean To roof rafter
Gable roof trusses with a bottom chord and king post for longer span gable roofs.
Ridge board roo framing for our firewood shed plans.
How to cut rafter birds mouth for shed spans of 8' and narrower.
Shed with Porch Roof

It also includes much more information to help you build different styles of sheds and customize your shed including:

Four different roof eve details so you can change the look of your shed eves including the Exposed Eve, Soffited Eve, Boxed Eve, Narrow Boxed Eve and Narrow Rake, Boxed Rake and Exposed Rake.
How to frame shed walls
How to frame a window opening
How to frame a door opening
How to install a loft floor
How to figure out what size and how many nails or fasteners to use.
How to Square a wall or floor
How to crown a board
How to install exterior trim