DIY shelter attempt by a complete novice!

monkey8

I am looking to but a weights bench at the bottom of my garden to the right had side of my shed (attached pic)

I want to construct a sheltered area for it but have no DIY skills whatsoever!

I was think of buying timber in woddies to make a frame and covering it with tarp. Was thinking of having the back posts a bit higher so the water would run off to the front.

What's the best way to connect the tarp to the frame?

Any other advice would be much appreciated!

El Inho

Steal your neighbours shed. Job done.

Sir Arthur Daley

Why not buy another shed and put it beside the one there already, the amount of money you would spend buying timber and other materials out of woodies will fund the shed.
Covering some frame in tarp wont be too eye appealing also.

Into The Blue

If you only had a roof then your neighbours would be gooing you out of it while you pump your iron..

Better to buy a second hand shed on donedeal or adverts.

Jimmy_M

Im sure you thought of buying a shed already and for whatever reason you want to build this yourself.
First thing, do up a list of what you neeed and ring around your local builders providers for prices - almost guaranteed to be cheaper than woodies/BnQ and they'll deliver for about 25 euro if you cant pick it up yourself.

To answer your question... millions of ways you could do it - and im sure people will have their own opinions
Id start off with concrete footers - i.e. dig holesaround where the frame of your construction will sit - and fillin with concrete to above grass level - so its not sitting on the grass. Make sure theyre all level
You obviously want a hard floor - ie you wont be putting your bench on the grass.
So you could build a cube (i know thats concise - im implying that you frame it properly each wall would have adequate studs) from construction timber, joist for the roof and the floor, clad 3 sides of it with shiplap or featherboard.

Use 25mm ply for the roof and the floor.
Leave the ply overhanging on the roof. Use felt to cover it; just wrap it back around back under the over hang and nail it in. Make sure you overlap sheets of felt so that water runs off the top sheet on to the bottom sheet (ie you dont want water rolling into the seems), so start from the bottom and work up. bigger overlap the better.
Then re your fall in the roof - you want to leave the fall to the back or side - so that water is not falling into the opening (as it would in the wa you described)
You'll need to treat the floor since it will be exposed (or use marine ply - but its expensive)

Its just a flat roof shed with no front side - not sure how this would stand up in harsh winds - ie there is a large surface area of the roof exposed - if not secured well a gust could lift it off - a front wall would avoid this.

The above is not comprahensive - its just to give you an idea

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get a little scaffolding and and make a frame from that sheeted roof and tarp around the edges