CAN HE BUILD IT? YES HE CAN — PART TWO

Welcome back. Now that the foundations are done and the base frame, floor, and walls are up, it’s time to put up the roof trusses, which will tie this shed/workshop together.

At the moment the walls are a bit wobbly and only braced by being screwed together in the corners. The roof trusses attach to the top edge of the wall sections and make the whole structure more rigid — not totally rigid, though; the addition of the plywood lining I decided to add took it a leap closer to brick outhouse standard.

All trussed up

The roof trusses were pre-made as part of the kit so only needed to be screwed to the top of the wall sections. The trusses at the ends had shiplap-style boards pre-stapled to them vertically. Full-length timber stringers were then run at the peak edges of the roof — one just each side of the crest — and at the outer edges.

I did feel it would have been better to have an additional stringer halfway between the top and outer edge of each side of the roof so that the iron wouldn’t tend to buckle so easily when someone was up there trying to paint it, but to my regret I didn’t