So, I did say I got the shed but have to put it together. Being I don't have the foundation made for it yet, I decided to put together what I could until I got the foundation made. For the foundation you can use concrete or a wood foundation, I'm using wood.
Right from the start I seen two things I didn't like. First, they used 2x4's for the joists. I guess 2x4's might be ok for some, but I'm going with 2x6's or 2x8's for the joists. The big deck out at the pool only has 2x6's but it's very solid no give whatsoever. Of course, they are spaced 16" on center and span less then 9-feet.
I'll probably go with 2x8's being there is going to be a lot of weight in the shed like the woodchipper, snowblower, log splitter, and hard to tell what else.
Another thing I didn't like that was shown is the way they put the plywood on the joists, as shown below.
Why would you put plywood on floor joists this way? Is there any reason? Putting plywood on this way makes for weak joints at the seams (where the plywood meets). Plus, you have a small 4-inch strip at one end. Duh...? If you put the plywood in the other direction, the seams are staggered which make a much stronger floor. Plus, you won't have a small 4" piece of plywood at the one end. Either way you do it, you will still need four sheets of plywood.
When I first said about the shed arriving, I did say how instructions usually suck, and these instructions also do. Some of the pictures I have no idea what I'm really looking at, will try to figure that out when I get that far.
When putting the trusses together, they really confused me, again, bad instructions. I had one weird looking truss, two trusses with a notch on the one end, and one truss with no notches on either end, yet look at the picture below.
The picture is showing one truss with a notched end, and two trusses with no notches, that's wrong, it should be the other way around, two trusses with a notched end, and one truss with no notches. Nothing worse then bad instructions only to find out later after getting things together that you have to take it apart and redo it because the instructions were wrong.
In another part of the instructions, it says there were five of another part but there was only one or two, not five. As for the trusses, I had to keep looking over the instructions as to why I only had one truss with no notches instead of two. I finally did figure out that the instructions were wrong when I read about what truss to use were.
I'm sure I'll probably run into other problems, but hope I catch them before I try putting things together only to find the instructions were wrong and I have to take things apart to correct it.
Song For Today: Black Pus In His Hilarious Attic
I take it most of you won't like this, but I do. You do notice the big pile of broken drumsticks, right?
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