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Let an expert show you how to:
- Plan a shed to match your needs.
- Select materials for economy and durability.
- Construct different shed foundations.
- Frame quickly and accurately.
- Build a variety of roof options.
- Install windows and doors.
- Customize the interior for storage.
A sturdy shed provides much-needed storage for homeowners. In this updated edition of one of Taunton's best-selling Build Like a Pro editions, Joseph Truini presents detailed plans for five complete sheds, showing how to mix and match features from each to make an endless variety of truly customized creations. A seasoned carpenter and author, Truini also provides invaluable and comprehensive coverage of material options and construction techniques. Highlighted by dozens of field-tested tips, trade secrets, brand-new photographs of design options, and helpful "What Can Go Wrong" sidebars, Building a Shed offers page after page of enlightening advice only a pro could provide.
The newly revised edition of this popular book provides all the expert advice you need to build a shed from start to finish. All brought to you by Joe Truini, a longtime carpenter, who has focused his expertise on the art and craft of building sheds.
From detailed instructions on choosing materials to perfecting your techniques, Building a Shed offers all the practical guidance you need to design and build a truly customized shed.
This new addition to our successful Build Like a Pro series of reference manuals gives you all the tips, procedures and trade secrets necessary to build five different types of shed.
- A Lean-to Shed Locker
- A Garden Shed
- A Saltbox Potting Shed
- A Colonial Style Shed
- A Gambrel Storage Barn
You can use the book as a set of instructions to build one of these five sheds. Or as a handbook of shed-building techniques. Or both, depending on your needs.
With simple, step-by-step advice and over 350 photos that will educate and inspire you, Joe Truini delivers everything you need to build a custom shed.
From the Introduction
As the son of a carpenter, I had no choice but to learn my father's craft. It was passed down to me through the same complex genetic code that gave me his dark eyes and stubborn nature. My apprenticeship began at the tender, clueless age of 12, when my father woke me early one summer morning (much to my surprise) and announced that it was time to go to work. As I climbed into his truck, sleepy-eyed and silent, I had no idea that I was embarking on a journey of discovery and purpose that would guide me through life to this very day.
During that summer, and subsequent summers for the next several years, I worked alongside my dad and learned a lot about carpentry, electrical wiring, plumbing, and life. Later, as a young adult, I used those skills to earn a living as a remodeling contractor, union carpenter, cabinetmaker, and, eventually, writer.
For the past 26 years, I've written about homebuilding, remodeling, and woodworking for nearly every possible medium: books, newspapers, websites, television, radio, and several magazines, including This Old House, Popular Mechanics, Today's Homeowner, Country Living, Woman's Day, Handy, and Home Mechanix. It was during my years as a magazine editor that I first began writing about backyard outbuildings and discovered that nearly every homeowner - regardless of the size of his or her house - needed a storage shed. Over the years, I've written articles about and built more than a dozen sheds. Therefore, when the fine folks at The Taunton Press asked me to write this book, I was confident that my experiences in the building and publishing fields would prove invaluable. I hope you think so, too.
From the very beginning, the goal of this book has been to provide you with the information, inspiration, and confidence to build your own backyard storage shed. And not just one of the structures shown in this book, but any shed at all. Like most other shed books, this one has a lot of photos of attractive outbuildings and many construction drawings, but that's where the similarities end. This book gives specific information on what you need to know before you build a shed, including design considerations, building code issues, and evaluating your storage needs. A chapter devoted to shed-building techniques covers everything from foundations to roof framing. Another chapter explains the wide variety of shed-building materials, including siding, roofing, doors, and windows.
However, what makes this book truly unique is that each of the final five chapters shows how to build a particular shed from scratch. These structures were specifically designed and constructed for this book and include an easy-to-build 2-foot by 6-foot Lean-to Shed Locker that's perfect for storing lawn and garden tools; a modest 6-foot by 6-foot Garden Shed that has a stylish hip roof and fiber-cement siding; a charming 8-foot by 12-foot Saltbox Potting Shed, which features a cedar-shingle roof and a traditional Dutch door; a 10-foot by 16-foot Colonial-Style Shed that combines classical design with beautiful vertical-board cedar siding; and a spacious 12-foot by 20-foot Gambrel Storage Barn, which has double-wide sliding doors and an interior storage loft.
For each shed, there are dozens of step-by-step photos and precise drawings to guide you through each phase of the construction process. However, if you need additional information, mail-order plans are available for each of the five sheds. In this edition we've also included Design Options at the end of each chapter. There you'll find different looks that go beyond the construction basics of the text and show you what else is possible. It took about a year to produce the book you now hold in your hands, but it - and all that I am today - really started early one summer morning more than 40 years ago.
About the Author
Before he began his career as an author of fine carpentry books, Joseph Truini worked as a remodeling contractor, cabinetmaker, and union carpenter. He has written extensively for such magazines as Today's Homeowner, This Old House, and Popular Mechanics. Truini lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut. |
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