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I Built a Shed (2020)
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Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#262Awesome project! How long did it take total? Note that it’s against code to run electrical and data cable in the same conduit, both for safety and interference. Get outdoor rated cat 6 and leave it out of the conduit instead.
Or run two conduits in parallel
Or get a wireless extender for the internet connection.
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
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#264Not that anything about this shed is built to code, but this takes the cake: > PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that. You absolutely should not do this for framing, and most building codes specify the type and size of nails that you must use when fastening load-bearing structural components. Screws are convenient, sure, but they are…
While you're not wrong about nails vs screws for framing - this a 6x6 box, it's not going to matter.
Signed in to say this. I built a shed in my backyard as one of my first DIY projects and also used screws. Not even structural screws, just standard 3” construction screws. The thing is solid. No one is walking around on it. It isn’t under the same stresses as a two story house. Like you said, it’s a box!
I did my research, understood that nails provide better strength. I chose screws. So do many other shed builders.
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#265Not that anything about this shed is built to code, but this takes the cake: > PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that. You absolutely should not do this for framing, and most building codes specify the type and size of nails that you must use when fastening load-bearing structural components. Screws are convenient, sure, but they are…
You can get framing screws that bend similar to framing nails. As for code, yeah most cities have codes on the hight and setback of backyard sheds. This shed doesn't look like it meets either. https://www.strongtie.com/strongdrive_exteriorwoodscrews/sdw...
Where I live (Portland, Oregon) the rules for sheds are actually pretty generous. It can be something like 10 feet high, 200 square feet or less, and I don't think requires any setback, so the shed in the article might comply with similar rules depending on where they are.
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#266This whole thing is just a fire hazard but this is just dangerous advice to be giving people: "PRO TIP Use screws for everything; if you mess up, remove the screws and redo it; with nails, it’s a lot harder to do that." Please don't, screws shear. Don't learn constrtuction from someone who hasn't learnt it himself. As for writing about your experience like this, write a blog about something in your own field or other…
What is going to shear the screws in a shed?
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#267Looks cool! What would worry me is that you're displaying a screen and (presumably) a computer in front of a large window outside of your house. Of course I don't know what the rest of the property looks like, but from the pictures it looks perfect for burglars.
It faces my backyard so nobody can really see anything. I've also change the locker in sliding door to lock from the outside if I want extra security.
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d be happy to have projects inspected. If the inspection only cost a modest fee covered by the permit. Instead, permits are a way to find ways to raise assessments and therefore property taxes. Given the recurring costs, it’s no surprise at all that a lot of work is done without inspections.
Permits are for both safety _and_ tax reasons. Adding outbuildings to your property increases the value, so you should have your taxes increased, by the same logic that people with more expensive houses should pay more in taxes than people with cheaper houses. And property taxes, if properly codified and enforced, are a good way to ensure rich people can’t avoid taxes by hiding it in real estate. They also incentiviz…
> Adding outbuildings to your property increases the value, so you should have your taxes increased
Thank you for a succinct explanation of the benefits of land value tax over the current system.
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ya, it is bike shedding in most cases. I've seen a few side by side comparisons of nails vs screws for framing and while it's true that screws are more likely to sheer off, nails are more likely to pull out. And assuming you used a reasonable size and quantity of screws, the load required to sheer them will be so far and above anything required by code that it becomes a distinction without a difference.
as a dumb european: what are non-structural screws? I've only ever seen people building their bike-shacks and terrace stuff, using "Spax". Which are sold as "structural" screws in the US. Then, if you somehow fix together things with a classic nut and bolt-screws (from mechanical engineering): well, for most real things you probably would think about the force anyway I hope. And then screws are used in like any indus…
A good example is the common wood screw, which you might use in repairing a piece of furniture. Another is a drywall screw that holds drywall to the wooden studs behind it
You don't always want the beefiest screw. Sometimes you want it small and cheap. Most screws a random person would have sitting in their garage are of the small and cheap kind, because they're well-suited for most of the everyday projects people do.
For example, I recently mounted speakers to the walls of my living room. The wires come out of the wall, so to make that work well without just having holes in the wall, I mounted outlet boxes in the wall and covered then with panels that let the wire through. Those outlet boxes are screwed into the studs (the boxes have little channels in them to run the screw through). Those screws aren't structural, and probably wouldn't fit if they were.
Re: I Built a Shed (2020)
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to post about code violations but I’ll just tuck it under yours here so we don’t flood the top level (although one could argue that this really deserves it). I had to stop reading r/diy because half the stuff in there made me angry. Especially people building lofts to store heavy stuff without knowing anything about construction. You can’t overlap rooflines like this. That’s how they allow people to build…
Ignoring the type of conduit, there’s NM-B and CM (hopefully) in the same conduit. NM-B is not allowed outdoors (in “wet locations”) [0], and running your Ethernet cable and your power in the same conduit is no good. (Look up the code for feeders supplying structures — this is not even close to how it’s done. Maybe you can squeak by and consider this a structure supplied by a branch circuit, but there are still code…
What is NM-B? What is CM? What is WRB? What is OSB?
If your point is to educate those without knowledge, a link or spelling some things out is helpful.