Building the warshed thread

[Space Truckin]

Good day everyone!

Taking this time of self isolation to isolate even further and finally started the 'warshed' i've been yammering on about for ages. Really it's a construction shed to get me tools organized but will also be future home to my hobby desk for a few years while we start on the main house and post apocalyptic bunker.

This is gonna be a 8' x 16' shed style roof with water catchment system. Trying to recycle a ton of materials have loads of shutters from a home torn down after the hurricanes.

Got the site prepped going to be a wood build ultra dodgey 5 gallon buckets dug out for footings. What could go wrong?

Anyways hope to post an update every weekend as I plug away.
Take break from the sump, kick your shoes off, have a cuppa and hope you stick around for the ride.

 

[spafe]

looking forward to this!

 

[almic85]

Why on earth are you putting 5 gallon buckets in the ground to use as for work for footings?

Surely the hole you have dug to put the buckets in can just be filled with concrete and you could keep the bucket?

 

[Stoof]

Hope it'll have a nice window for the beautiful view!

 

[Space Truckin]

Very true, im using the 5 gallon buckets as forms for the concrete. I get them for free from a local restaurant and they all smell like pickles.
Evidently they go thru a few buckets of pickles a day.

 

[Vertico]

That is a view some pay for to see.
All the best on your project.

 

[almic85]

I’d be careful about using buckets that have a lingering smell of vinegar and food stuffs as acids and sugars can stop concrete from setting properly.

At the very least I’d give them a good soak for a couple of days before using them.

 

[Space Truckin]

@almic85 Great suggestions! Left them out in place for a week exposed to the rain and the deadly UV we have here. Even though I was hoping for a shed that smelled of pickles - it won't be from these buckets anymore.
Not much to report, what I mean is there was lots of work that doesn't look like much has happened. No help this weekend poured approximately 700lbs of concrete on my own. Back is aching a bit but no Ibuprofen due to COVID-19 ( BTW does COVID-19 sound like a Drum n Bass song? Dieselboy comes to mind)

6 footers each will be buried completely before moving forward to prevent "uplift" from high winds.
The bolt anchors to a galvanized steel saddle that supports the 4x4 posts. On top of these posts will be a 16' 4x4 stringer with which the actual shed will sit. Everything will be strapped down with galvanized straps / hangers for a continues load path to these buckets. Fortunately there was a whole bin full of these left over from the person that built our home.

 

[undertaker]

You appear to be building your warshed on the edge of a precipice. Is that gonna start leaning and sliding down the hill?
I dunno. I'm not a construction engineer. @spafe and @ClockworkOrange will probably sneer at my feeble attempts to understand their craft.

 

[Fold]

Man cave builds have to be my favourite thing to read, ever. And you appear to be going into the sort of detail that I absolutely love. Thanks for documenting this for us - I am all over it!

PS where do you live?

 

[spafe]

You appear to be building your warshed on the edge of a precipice. Is that gonna start leaning and sliding down the hill?
I dunno. I'm not a construction engineer. @spafe and @ClockworkOrange will probably sneer at my feeble attempts to understand their craft.

All to do with the ground bearing capacity of the gound. I imagine (based on the relative shallowness of those buckets, that the chalk, granite, other load bearing rock is fairly shallow there. Also its a low weight building, so not likely to have a high ground pressure, plus it will be anchored by the other foundations further form the edge.

So yes, your theory is right, but for the type of structure, it doesnt on the face of it look too concerning.

The pickle acidity wrecking the concrete would ahve been a greater concern, but that is resolved.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Me? No I count the Concretes and keep my PPE in pristine condition.

Edit - although I’d think the most likely place that would fail is the bolt/wood.

 

[Space Truckin]

@Fold Thanks man! I'm in the Virgin Islands. St. John specifically.


A little bit more work over the weekend. The 'soil' here is very rocky I would hardly call it soil. And we have no freeze thaw to deal with. There are 6 posts that will be set on 4x4 PT stringers. Don't have a pic of it but I've already leveled off the 4x4s and the 4x4 stringers are attached. Not exactly thrilled with the height on the down hill slope of it either so I'm tying the 4x4 posts together with 2x4s to stiffen it up a good bit.

Hoping to have the platform finished by Monday and work on framing the walls over Easter.

After the stay at home order for another 30 days was passed - my wife now fully endorses this project!

Lots of left over pressure treated 2x4s to be used for the wall framing. Also scored a TON of wooden shutters that were taken off of another home that was compromised by the hurricanes.

Need to make another run to the lumber yard to get 2x6s and 3/4" plywood for the floor ( Easter Project ).

 

[Space Truckin]

Also should probably mention, I'm not a professional, don't try this at home especially my home

no really, the intention for this shed is temporary storage for tools and models and my sanity. Have every intention of disassembling after our main house is built. Our cottage is nearly finished and we are taking a year off from construction so maybe 5-7 years.

 

[Fold]

I’m not either and I ended up building a very serviceable little man cave out in my garden. Apart from electrics everything seems well within the common mans grasp! Admittedly I don’t have any hurricanes or precarious looking overhangs to contend with...

 

[Space Truckin]

Wow April 1st was my last post! I have nearly achieved the metaphysical state of slack.
Lot's going on here. We are in lock down but not really lock down making life here even more inconvenient. At least we have plenty of tp.

And wood!!!! Lumberyard here is on a honor system and always open. Just drop off a card on what you need and they bill ya later.
Needed a mess of 2x6s for the flooring and 4x8 sheets of plywood. All pressure treated because we have evil grubby termites in the ground and in the trees.

This is where the OCD kicks in... I hate doing big projects and regretting not making sure everything is perfect in the beginning. Making sure everything is square and plumb is kinda important I suppose. Anyways I fussed about with piers and the stringers for quite a while. Lag bolted these suckers together and started bracing everything while my son thought this was the best alternative for visiting the playground.

2x6 flooring going in.

Messed with this for about 2 days to get things square. Did measure from corner to corner method to double check. Also ending up cutting some 2x6's with 45 degree cuts on the mitre saw to shore it up even more. (not shown here ) That probably helped the most. The 4x4 pieces here didn't do a whole lot but provide a place to screw everything together other then the end grain of the 2x6s...
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[ClockworkOrange]

This “Warshed” is probably going to have the best view out of every gaming dungeon I’ve ever seen! Will it have power?

 

[Vertico]

Well, gaming in that shed will make my bucket-list.

 

[Space Truckin]

This “Warshed” is probably going to have the best view out of every gaming dungeon I’ve ever seen! Will it have power?

Thank You!
Most definitely. Havent determined if I'm going to run:

A) easy rigged extension cord from our house
B) put in a small sub panel and hardwire power
C) get a cheap 200w. Solar kit and a few batteries. And resort to option A to run the table saw.

 

[Space Truckin]

Well, gaming in that shed will make my bucket-list.

I very much want to do a yak tribe meet here if there is enough interest. Thought about renting a private Villa for gaming or even a ballroom at the Westin...bring the family kinda thing.