Building A Shed HQ

Deciding on sizes for your storage shed plans: Aside from carpentry, I like to do a little bit of gardening myself and one of the best things I ever did was building a storage shed for the back yard where I could store all of my gardening materials and tools. I don’t like sheds which [...]

When you have your storage shed designs and plans you need to get your toold box in order, i the post I discuss saws. There are saws and then there are saws. Do you know that there are about ten different types of handsaws and not all of them are useful for building sheds? Before [...]

One of the first projects I ever made was a storage shed and that was the time when I learned a lot of things about what type of tools to use. First off, the shed that I was building was a long way off of the back of my house and that distance became a [...]

You may have already built a storage shed using the correct plans, but no shed design is complete without a  properly felted roof! Roofing felt is a tar paper made of fibreglass or polyester that has been impregnated with tar or asphalt. These could be bought in roll form and is used to waterproof the [...]

When I’m building a shed I always have a mitre saw to hand. The use of a compound mitre is so beneficial that it will make various wood cutting jobs for construction framing and woodworking projects so much easier and have it done in a breeze. About any wood framing joint can be cut in [...]

I’m writing this post to give you some pointers on building a storage shed and de-cluttering homes – which is I would say an expertise of mine. Probably, a lot of questions come in mind before starting off with a project and for this one, first question would be how much will you spend and [...]

When you think of a carpenter one of the images that springs to mind is them banging nails in with a hammer. Typically it would be a Claw hammer. Every carpenter will have, or should have, a claw hammer in their tool box! Most workshops nowadays will use compressors to power nail guns when building [...]

photo credit Welcome to my new blog ‘Building a Shed Headquarters’. My name is Ray Kirk, I’m writing this blog so that I can share my expert knowledge of the carpentry industry with anyone who will listen! I’ve been a carpenter since I started working as my Dad’s apprentice when I left school, yes my [...]