Backyard shed build , gone very wrong

[Scott Liggett]

I have seen the homeless do a batter job of engineering under the freeway using boxes and tarps.

[pdub]

You guys are making fun of me, and you don't even know it.....

[milner351]

I've never seen a larger waste of materials.... well outside of a government job anyway.

[Deaf Bob]

I have seen the homeless do a batter job of engineering under the freeway using boxes and tarps.

Yeah.. I got pallet built stuff still standing after 20 years.. !!

[bishir]

Exclusive photos have been obtained of the carpenter.

[Barry Donovan]

Geez, I learned basic carpenter skills by the time I was 14 years old .. that thing breaks all the rules

I was thinking I learned about that time too.
me and my brother learned at the same time. Check grains, crown up for the roof.
in fact, there is a lot of cheapskate if to learn the old way and actually build from ground up today. it is sad..
but not nearly as sad as that shed.

my brother has busted but ground up house and everything inbetween for just over 20 years, non stop.. all year.
he'd get a kick out of this.
I wish he had a computer for play.

[BOOOGHAR]

HO-LEE-CRAP theres time lapse video of it being built - EPIC !

[cantvalve16]

And this, gentlemen, is why there are building codes.

[Gary 351C]

He must be building it for his mother-in-law to live in.

[projectcarforum]

looks about like the "house" my uncle built for himself.

[173rdherd]

starting my teenage years in the building trades(roofing/siding early 60's Chicago) and progressing thru as an adult as a Texas Frame carpenter, to cornice, int trim, cabinet shop, eventually to furnituremaker....I am speechless. It just can't be real.....how could you possibly do EVERYTHING wrong, unless you tried? Amazing.

[70chevyC-10]

That's a finish axe

as opposed to a Norwegian axe ?

[173rdherd]

" Aye, I carry an axe....not for the hewing of trees, but for the lopping off of heads!!"
Gimli the Dwarf

[CDMBill]

Those sports bike guys got to 68 pages and 1000 posts and counting. Seriously? Their time must be even more worthless than ours. And yes it makes feel better about my crap projects.

[Jimbo17]

Iused to see a lot of sheds that looked like that.

I was in the home building and remodeling business for about 35 years and over the time many of the people I build homes for also wanted a shed built.

Many would purchase kits with all the wood and parts and stuff included.

Once they tried building themselves with their sons they would call me and ask for help.

The bag of bolts, nuts and nails would sometimes have over 3,000 parts in a plastic bag.

Many would ask me where the floor is and how come it was not included or where was the ramp to drive the tractor inside the shed.

For me it would be ten times harder trying to read the 35 pages of instructions and laying out all the parts then if I just had the lumber delivered and framed the conventional way.

I used to ask the customer if they wanted a floor, concrete footing or maybe pier and beam style of flooring. Some wanted electric run underground to their shed.

Jimbo