How To Build A Metal Shed

The shed I built in this video is a relatively cheap shed purchased on Amazon.  The shed itself is cheaply made, and I would not recommend it to others, as they are not rainproof.  I built two of them, and one is pretty good, but the other, built the same way with the same materials, leaks quite a bit somehow.  That one is used for my tools and landscaping equipment.  I have built shelves inside so the important stuff is off the floor.  The water seems to come in from the sidewall somehow, and I have not spent the time to troubleshoot it yet.

In this video, you will see the basic steps to putting one of these together.  This may help you plan the installation of your own shed; hopefully, yours will be of better quality.  There are a couple of interesting things in this video.  The first thing I did was measure the space where the sheds would be built before ordering them.  I also planned where the door would be, so that helped me determine which configuration to get.  The sheds were to be placed in a rock area between a sidewalk and a retaining wall.  The shed measurements fit within that space, but I forgot to factor in the width of the pier blocks I was going to use to put the sheds on.

The pier blocks hold the 2x6s that I would use for the floor structure.  The 2x6s would rest in the center of the pier blocks, and the pier blocks would be several inches wider on the base.  So, with the width of the pier blocks, my shed frames would no longer fit between the sidewalk and the retaining wall.  I had a few options: use regular bricks to put my floor frame on, use the pier blocks and allow one side to be on the sidewalk, or cut the pier blocks to allow them to fit where I wanted them.

A while back, one of my neighbors had a tile saw sitting in front of their house with a FREE sign on it.  I passed it by for a few days, then decided to grab it.  I didn’t need it and didn’t really have space for it, but it interested me anyway.  That thing was huge and super heavy.  It sat in my garage for a couple of months, unused, until I needed to use it to try to cut the blocks down.  Luckily, it worked great and I was able to continue to put the sheds where I had planned them to go.

The problem that I later created for myself, was when I connected the pieces needed for the roof supports.  When I looked at them, they all looked the same.  They were all the same, but the holes on one end differed from those on the other.  What I ended up doing was connecting the wrong ends together, which made the support a few inches too short to span the roof.  It took me a while to figure out that the holes were different, and turning them around and connecting the other ends, fixed the problem.

In my videos, I typically leave them embarrassing parts, if I feel that others may be able to learn from them.  I also like having problems that I have to creatively resolve.  I hope that these problem resolutions help others think a little outside the box when they have their own, unique problems.