Building A HUGE Shed!

I saw these plastic pallets outside a local supermarket and asked if I could have them. They're waste! Sickening. Anyway, I also saw the potential as a shed floor so I'm collecting them until I have enough. I've never seen anyone else use them, and then, boom. Here you are!

This is the sort of thing i tune in for Keith, been with you since your first shed build .

Nice to see the mitre saw coming out of retirement!

Grand idea for the stop block!

Looks good, Keith - as you say, huge! I like your glamorous assistant in the tortoiseshell fur coat.

@6.55 Back in the '70's when I studied Building Construction, TGV stood for 'Tongued, Grooved and V-jointed', referring to the V-spaced recess/joint produced when the boards are fitted together.

Looking good so far Keith. Can't wait for the next episode.

FYI, TGV = tongue and groove v joint as you end up with a decorative v joint once the boards are fitted

I built a log store, floor and sides from composite pallets only last week, secured together with 10mm zip ties then clad and a felted roof put on top, now filled with 2 tons of firewood briquettes. I understand using zip ties seems very odd but correcty placed and tightened they made the pallets into a rock solid base and 'frame'.

Living in Chicago, this looks bigger than my apartment.

Good info on testing with the treatment of ends! Now when thinking about that, might be perfectly fine to just spread some PVA glue on to block the cells when they are exposed to weather. Or even paint.

Ohh plans! This could be the time I finally build one lol

I think TGV is so called as the join between two boards has a Vee chamfer

Thanks Keith, that was a very efficient process and the result was spot on, great to see you working with your brother again ! I used some plastic pallets for a shed base recently they were a different design and I filled the voids with crushed hardcore and gravel so they formed a very solid base but don't have the airflow that you have of course ! Thanks for all the effort you put into keeping us informed of your decision process and the relative costs of the different options you considered ! Looking forward to the rest of the series !

Never thought I’d see the mitre saw again!

It's called TGV because it's Tongue & Groove with a V cut going down between each plank. You can get tongue and groove which is just TG which doesn't have the V cut and is completely flat. One of the many things I remember from my carpentry apprenticeship years back although we referred to them as T+G and T+GV (TnG and TnGV). We're soon to move into our forever bungalow which has a massive garden out the back and I plan to build a long shed down one side of the garden that's a shed at one end and summer house at the other.

really love the stop block idea Keith

Hi Keith, I ended up putting my last shed on a concrete plinth at around 100mm think. Ended up being cheaper than timber. I reused the framing timber in sections of the roof.

Instead of a ratchet, screw or nail a wedged offcut to a joist and whack in a wedge alongside it that squeezes the floorboards together

Love the Calico cat doing its job supervising the job.