12' x 8' workshop plans

[Guss109]

Just set up an account at your local timber yard and you might be surprised on what you save plus you'll get free delivery so that's £25/30 notes saved from the start. Just bluff and say you do heaps of fenceing ect so you want keen prices from them

[John Barleycorn]

Nice little book

Workshop Construction (Workshop Practice) by Jim Forrest and Peter Jennings (31 Dec 1998)

£6- on Amazon, or even £2- secondhand

[Big J]

One of the first jobs I did when I went self employed was building a large shed (12 by 8 as it happened) for our old neighbours. Like everything I ever build, it was hugely over engineered and I make about £1.50 an hour on it! That will teach me to make every bit from scratch without the proper tools.

 

I didn't work to a plan though - my wife is an architect, drew out lovely plans and a cutting list, but personally I work much better when it's all in my head.

 

Best advice for building it is get a woodmizer in for a day or half day to mill up some of the drier logs in your yard and go from there. Douglas fir, Larch, Oak, Sweet Chestnut are best for cladding, and just about anything else is fine for non exposed stuff. Looking forward to seeing the result!

 

Jonathan

[Crazy Cutter]

 

Best advice for building it is get a woodmizer in for a day or half day to mill up some of the drier logs in your yard and go from there. Douglas fir, Larch, Oak, Sweet Chestnut are best for cladding, and just about anything else is fine for non exposed stuff. Looking forward to seeing the result!

 

Jonathan

 

I'm with Big J we are now building 6 stables using oaks l have collected over the last year. Eight 30 inch butts from 8 to 12 feet have cost me 500.00 and milling about 450.00 into 1 inch boards which is a bit cheaper than 5000.00 i was quoted for weather boarding! Just waiting for final planning permission, yawn?

I'm quite looking forward to building something out of trees i felled.

[RobRainford]

How about a container then screw some nice milled oak on it so it looks like a log cabin?

 

It's your neighbours who see it more anyway

[Gollum]

Built a 5m x 7m work shop 2 years ago

just bought the timber much cheaper,

if these pics help

 

 

 

[Al Cormack]

After you finished it, did you think 'bugger, how do I get it out the door?' lol

[slack ma girdle]

You need:

Sheds, the do it yourself guide for backyard builders, by D & J Stiles.

 

Helped a friend build one in his woods using this. Simple enough for even me to follow. :thumbup:

[Gollum]

After you finished it, did you think 'bugger, how do I get it out the door?' lol

 

No that's going to stay where it is.

but we did build it to come apart in 8 wall sections,

[Mark Bolam]

Great stuff lads, thanks.

 

I'll post pics as I go.

 

It'll be a right laugh hearing all the 'you shouldn't have done it like that' comments!