- Plan your shed base
You must have a sturdy base for your shed, otherwise the frame won’t stand properly and could stop the door from opening. Decide whether you’re going to have:
- A concrete base laid on hardcore
- Concrete slabs on sharp sand
- Treated wood beams on hardcore or shingle
- An interlocking plastic system
- Treat wood with preservative To help your shed last as long as possible, you should coat all the wooden parts with timber preservative before you put it together.
- Put the shed floor together Some will need more assembly than others, but you need to make sure that the floor panel is attached to the joists; follow the manufacturer’s instructions for the correct spacing.
- Put up the shed walls
- Mark the centre point of each wall on its bottom edge, then do the same for the shed floor so you can line them up together.
- Stand the gable end on the base and line it up. Check that it’s vertical with a spirit level – you might need someone to support the panel while you do this. Use a temporary holding batten to keep it in place.
- Fix a side panel to the gable end panel with countersunk screws, then add the second side panel in the same way.
- Fit the roof
- If the shed comes with a support bar, put this in position before you put the roof panels in.
- Nail the roof panels in place, ensuring there’s a parallel and equal overlap at each end.
- Roll out some roofing felt from front to back, leaving a 50mm overlap at each side. Secure it with clout-headed felt tacks at 100mm intervals.
- Apply mastic sealant to the outside corners, then fix each corner trim with 30mm nails.
- Add the fascias and finials, predrilling 2mm holes to avoid splitting the wood. Nail them through the felt into the shed using 40mm nails.
- Add the shed windows
- Slide each windowsill into the tongue and groove cut out, then put the window cover strip in position, fixing it to the vertical framing.
- From inside the shed, put the glazing sheets into the window rebates, making sure the bottom edge of the glazing sheets sit on the outside of the sill.
- Fix the window beading on the top and sides with 25mm nails.
- Fix the walls to the floor Before you do anything, make sure you check that the centre marks on the walls line up with the marks on the shed floor. Then fix the wall panels to the floor with 50mm screws, aligning them with the joists. And that’s it! But if you’re not confident in building a shed yourself, there are plenty of professionals available who will be happy to help.
Tetbury
Tetbury is a town as well as civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an ancient hillside fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey was founded, most likely by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold wool as well as thread. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competition where participants should carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May every year. Noteworthy structures in the town consist of the Church House, Market House, built in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and also St Mary Magdalene and much of the remainder of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a fine example of a Cotswold pillared market house and is still in use as a meeting point and also market. Various other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum exist just outside the community. Tetbury has won 5 consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 and also was classification winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom and won a Judges Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a new participant in the National Britain in Flower Campaign in 2009 and a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest features 2 dolphins.