Storage Buildings
1. Skids: Our floor system starts with pressure treated 4x6 skids. These skids are notched ½" for floor joist attachment. 10’ wide buildings have two skids and 12’ wide buildings have four skids.
2. Floor Joists: We use pressure treated 2x6 floor joists on wood buildings and 2x4 floor joist on metal buildings on 16" centers that are toe-nailed into ½" notches in each 4 x 6 skid. This building technique provides cross bracing for the floor joists. Garage buildings are built with floor joists spaced on 12" centers
3. Floor Decking: We use 5/8" pressure treated plywood floor decking. This thickness provides good support for just about anything a customer might want to place in the shed. We have many customers who have cars, commercial mowers, or motorcycles stored in their sheds.
4. Walls: We have three types of siding. We use a 5/8" thick Pressure Treated T-111 siding which is pre-stained with a Honey Gold stain, a 5/8” thick Wonder Board painted siding, and a 29 gauge Metal siding. Our walls are constructed with 2x4's spaced 24" on center with every other stud doubled. This gives you as many studs as a typical wall with 16" stud spacing but gives a more stable wall for transportation. (2x4's are spaced 36" on center on our Metal, Best Value Budget buildings.)
5. Doors: All of our buildings come with shop-built 2 x 4 reinforced doors with three steel T-hinges per door. Eight-foot width buildings come with a single 4' door (46" actual clearance) Ten and twelve foot width buildings come standard with a 6' wide pair of doors (70" actual clearance).
The exceptions to this rule are the Cabin, the Lofted Barn Cabin and the Portable Garage. These buildings come standard with a 36” wide house door. The Portable Garage also comes with a roll-up door that measures 9' wide by 6'6" high.
6. Windows: Buildings that are shown on our brochure with windows all include at least one 2x3 window. Cottage Sheds come with 2 3x3 windows. Buildings that do not show windows can be special ordered with windows. See windows under the Options section on our website for details.
7. Roofing: On Pressure Treated and Painted models we use 30-year architectural roofing shingles and 7/16" o.s.b. plywood for roof decking. On Metal buildings we use 29 gauge metal. Metal roofs are also available as an option on Pressure Treated and Painted models.
8. Trusses: We make our own trusses of 2x4 construction with 1½" staples instead of truss plate (which typically only has ¼" teeth). We find this to be a very structurally sound method and have never had a structural failure. Some of our buildings are built with rafters rather than trusses. We typically use 2x4's with o.s.b. or plywood gusset plates for extra reinforcing.
9. Vents: Our Pressure Treated and Metal buildings are all gable vented to reduce heat and prolong the life of the roof shingles. This also lessens the chance of mold or mildew problems.
10. Fasteners: All exterior fasteners are zinc coated ring shank nails which resist rusting and provide exceptional holding strength.
10 feet wide buildings are 10 feet wide measuring from outer wall.
12 feet wide buildings are 12 feet wide measuring from roof peak.
8 feet wide buildings generallly come standard with one 46" door.
10 and 12 feet wide buildings generally come standard with double 36" doors.
Garages and porched buildings are the exception because they have roll-up or house doors.
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