Outdoor & decks
Build a storage shed
A stick-built gable or lean-to shed: foundation, floor, wall framing, rafters, sheathing, siding, roofing, doors — every board counted, with the permit size limits where you live.
0 of 14 answers are yours. The rest are typical defaults — check each one.
The door end (the gable end on a gable roof).
Front to back, along the ridge.
Floor to the top of the wall. 8′ 1⅛″ is a wall of 92⅝″ precut studs; on a lean-to, the low wall.
Skids on gravel
Treated 4×6s on a gravel pad
Deck blocks
On a gravel pad
Concrete piers
Below the frost line
Concrete slab
The Concrete Sheet pours it
T1-11 panels
Siding and sheathing in one
Engineered-wood panels
LP SmartSide-type
Lap siding
Over sheathing and wrap
Double doors, 5 ft
Built from the siding
Double doors, 6 ft
Built from the siding
Small shed windows, about 18″ × 27″.
Heavy snow where you are?
Power to the shed?
Lights or outlets: a licensed electrician’s job.