Shed Specific Notes
Prestige Pitch: 7/12 Angle: 30°
- Wing pieces held down 1 1/2"
- Side wall siding 2 5/8" down from double top plate
- 6" overhangs - hold flush with top of gable rafter
- 4" soffit
- 5" wraps, held 1/2" up
- Garden vents (tall vents) held down 10"
- Lap Siding Facia
A-Frame Pitch: 5/12 Angle: 22.5°
- Side Wall siding hold 1 1/2" down from top of double top plate
- Wing pieces 3/4" down
- Rakes 1/2" up from top of gable rafter
- 4" Wraps flush with top of rakes
- Square vents held down 5"
- Grooved T1-11 Facia
Hi Side Pitch: 4/12 Angle: 18.5°
- Square vents held down 5"
- Sidewall siding flush with top of double top plate
- Wing pieces flush to bottom of T1-11
- Rakes 1/2" up from top of gable rafter
- Wraps flush with top of rakes
- 5 3/4" soffit
- Soffit is held 2" up from T1-11 on side walls
Hi Side Collar Ties:
- 10 wide: 102 1/2" L-L
- 12 wide: 121 1/2" L-L
- 14 wide: 150 1/2" L-L
- 16 wide: 175" L-L
Single Slope Pitch: 3/12 Angle: 15°
- ⚠️ 12 wide single slopes are sheathed from tall wall to short wall on both gables, so the gables should mirror each other.
- ⚠️ Short wall is sheathed from right to left. (This is important in order for your soffit to fit right.)
- ⚠️ Tall wall is sheathed from left to right. (This is important in order for your soffit to fit right.)
- Short wall siding 1/2" down
- Tall wall siding 5/8" up
- ⚠️ All 3 tall wall plates are the same size.
- Grooved T1-11 Facia
- For a 4" overhang on a 15° rafter, measure 4" along the slope. If measuring straight across, use 3 7/8" — this equals the same true 4" overhang.
- Square gable walls before attaching gable truss
- Wing pieces 3/4" down with 15° angle
- Rakes 1/2" up, wraps flush with top of rakes
- Short wall soffit is wider than tall wall soffit
Temp Studs
Temp stud length= tall wall stud height plus 4 1/2". Measure square to short. Cut on miter saw with saw set at 15 degree angle turned out away from work.
- 4' wide: studs 6' & 7'
Temp Stud: 7' 4 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 57 11/16" L-S - 6' wide: studs 6' & 7' 6"
Temp Stud: 7' 10 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 82 7/16" L-S - 8' wide: studs 6' & 8'
Temp Stud: 8' 4 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 107 3/16" L-S - 10' wide: studs 6' & 8' 6"
Temp Stud: 8' 10 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 131 15/16" L-S - 12' wide: studs 6' & 8' 11"
Temp Stud: 9' 3 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 151 9/16" L-S (2×6s) - 14' wide: studs 6' & 9' 6"
Temp Stud: 9' 10 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 181 7/16" L-S (2×8s) - 16' wide: studs 6' & 9' 11"
Temp Stud: 10' 3 1/2" square to short 15°
Rafter: 201 1/16" L-S (2×10s)
How to Layout Gable Plates:
Arrange plates like this and use the gable plate layout measurements, pulling from the bottom plate since the bottom plate is 7" shorter and what the measurements are based off of.
Gable Top Framing
Quaker Pitch: 5/12 Angle: 22.5°
- ⚠️Always start sheathing from short wall side. Gable walls should mirror each other.
- ⚠️10 and 14 wides are not framed with 1ft and 3 ft atarters and finishers, but with 2ft and 4ft starters and finishers. Use gable layout calc for more help.
- ⚠️Always true 12' and 16' wide
- ⚠️Gable siding lays out from short wall to tall wall
- Square gable walls before attaching gable truss
- Tall wall always has 1' taller studs than short wall unless specified in order.
- Short wall siding held down 1 1/2" from top of double top plate (like A-frame).
- Tall wall needs 2×2 soffit backer installed with 3" screws.
- Short wall soffit 4". Tall Wall soffit 16 5/8".
- Wing Pieces: 4" and 17 1/8" finisher
- Grooved T1-11 Facia
- Tall wall from end of rafter to first stud is 20 5/8", to outside of temp stud- 17 1/8" (see image below)
How to Layout Gable Plates:
Arrange plates like this and use the gable plate layout measurements, pulling from the bottom plate since the bottom plate is 7" shorter and what the measurements are based off of.
Animal Shelters
- Animal Shelters do not get vents except in the tack room if it has one.
- Standard animal shelters are floorless.
- 8' and 10' animal shelters get a 4×4 base with removable angled 4×4s lag-screwed into the frame corners and skids.
- 12', 14', and 16' animal shelters get a 6×6 gluelam base with removable angled 4×4s lag-screwed into the frame corners.
- Animal Shelter Openings are built 8' tall. Use a 2×6 header supported by 94½" jack studs. If the wall has 8ft studs or is too short for a full 8' opening then place a 2×6 header with a flat 2×4 under it all the way against the top plate and cut jack studs accordingly.
- Top corners of the opening get 45° angles using a 2×4 cut to 22¼" from long point to long point.
- Kickboard: Install CDX (kickboard) horizontally around the inside of the animal area. ⚠️Do not nail the very top of the CDX until after the J-channel has been installed.
- Install 2" rips of CDX around the animal shelter opening. Strips get 22.5° angle cuts to fit cleanly around the frame.
- J-channel: The top of the kickboard is capped with J-channel (chew guard). Keep the chew guard 2" back from the edge of any opening that gets Animal Shelter cap so the metal doesn’t conflict.
- Tack rooms: after the 4×4 / 6×6 floor frame is built, the tack room section gets a 2×4 floor framed and sheeted with regular flooring. The rest of the 4×4 / 6×6 frame is also floored so all walls sit at the same height.
Tack room floors get pressured treated 2x4s or 2x6s. 2x6s should be ripped down to 5 1/4" and if you use 2x4 joists then rip down in half, at least 2 pressure treated 2x4s to use under the joists (see images).
The interior wall is framed as normal with the first row of sheathing being CDX and the upper rows OSB.
Alpine
- 1' overhangs and eaves
- Bird box wraps held down 2".
- Fir Facia
- Doors and windows must be short enough to clear rafters.
- Alpines or any buildings with Alpine trim get doubled-up studs and sills around any and all framed openings so the Alpine trim has something solid to nail to (trim is much wider than normal).
Windows in Alpines
- 6' studs – jack studs are 64" or mark your stud at 64" and place top sills above the mark
- 7' studs – jack studs are 75"
Beam Porches
- Need 4 gable Rafeters
- Top plates do not run the whole length of building. If 20ft building with 4 ft porch then build as a 16 ft building. Then attach porch.
- Porch doe not get loft.
- Hang front wraps down further than normal.
Greenhouse Pitch: 5/12 Angle: 22.5°
- Wing pieces 3/4"
- Rakes and wraps flush with rafter top
- 2' o.c. framing
- Soffit backer 1/2" down from top of double top plate
- Grooved T1-11 Facia
- Wall Blocking for 6' studs and 4×4 base: pulling from the bottom of the stud, mark your studs at 23 7/8". Wide crown staple your blocking above this mark.
- siding for 6' studs and 4×4 base should be 2' 4 7/8" and is held 2" down.
- 8, 10, 12' wide Greenhouses get 4x4 base.
Economy Pitch: 4/12 Angle: 18.5°
- ⚠️ Z metal should extend all the way across the top of the wall with angles on the ends because there is no rakes or overhangs to cover the seam like other buildings
- Framed 2' o.c. on floors, walls, and ceiling.
- Regardless of width, buildings get only 2 rows of 4×4 runners.
- One top plate and one bottom plate only.
- Gable walls are framed the full width of the building.
- ⚠️ Side walls are framed 7" shorter than the gables (opposite of other buildings).
- No rakes or wraps.
- Rectangular economy vents (installed by framer); no soffit.
- OSB that is painted, slightly swollen, or generally ugly but still structurally sound may be used on economies.
Hi Side Cottage
- front top gable sheathing is 45 1/2" starter and finisher.
- hols sheathing down 1" on this front gable top.
- Hold wing pieces like a notmal hi side.
Chicken Coop
- still to come
Highwood
- still to come
Outfitter
Bear Paw
- still to come
Double Wide Pitch: 4/12 Angle: 18.5°
Notes
- True to size
- 5 1/2" overhang
- Lap Siding Facia
- Screw down first row of subfloor on one half so that the subfloor can be taken up by onsite crew to lag the 2 halves together.
- If floor is getting spray foam, lay roofing paper on top of joists before screwing down first row of sheathing
If Engineered or 2x4 Rafters
- subtract 2" from girder support
- use 2x4 gable rafter instead of 2x6
- add a strip of T1-11 underneath gable rafter on top of double top plate where rafter will sit.
- soffit changes to angled soffit @ 5 3/4" wide L-S
Double Wide Garage Framing
20 Wide
Gable Truss
- Gable Truss for 1 Ply Girder: 2x6 (10' 10 3/4") — L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
- Gable Truss for 2 Ply Girder: 2x6 (10' 9 3/16") — L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
8' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (12' 0 7/16") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (11' 6 5/8") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 8 - 2x4s (11' 11 15/16") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (11' 6 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
7' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (11' 0 7/16") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (10' 6 5/8") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 8 - 2x4s (10' 11 15/16") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (10' 6 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
24 Wide
Gable Truss
- Gable Truss for 1 Ply Girder: 2x6 (13' 0 1/16") — L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
- Gable Truss for 2 Ply Girder: 2x6 (12' 10 7/16") — L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
7' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (11' 8 1/2") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (11' 2 11/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 8 - 2x4s (11' 8") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (11' 2 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
8' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (12' 8 1/2") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (12' 2 11/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 8 - 2x4s (12' 8") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (12' 2 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
28 Wide
Gable Truss
- Gable Truss for 1 Ply Girder: 2x6 (15' 1 3/8") — L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
- Gable Truss for 2 Ply Girder: 2x6 (14' 11 13/16") — L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
7' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (12' 4 9/16") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (11' 10 3/4") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 8 - 2x4s (12' 4") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (11' 10 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
8' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (13' 4 9/16") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (12' 10 3/4") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 8 - 2x4s (13' 4") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (12' 10 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
32 Wide
Gable Truss
- Gable Truss for 1 Ply Girder: 2x6 – (17' 2 11/16") L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
- Gable Truss for 2 Ply Girder: 2x6 – (17' 1 1/16") L-L 18.5° with 4" Heel
Rakes
- 4 – 2x4 Rakes (17' 4 1/4") L-S 18.5°
Wraps
- 4 – 5" Wraps (17' 4 1/4") L-S 18.5°
7' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (13' 0 1/2") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (12' 6 3/4") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (13') —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (12' 6 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°
8' Studs
1 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (14' 0 1/2") —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (13' 6 3/4") — Bevel cut 18.5°
2 Ply Girder
- 4 - 2x4s (14') —minus WIDTH OF GIRDER
- 4 - 2x4s Square to Long (13' 6 3/16") — Bevel cut 18.5°