subject: Building Plans For Small Sheds - Do-it-yourself And Save! [print this page] Whether you enjoy DIY projects or if this is your first DIY project, using professionally prepared building plans is crucial and will help you reduce costs and time spent on this project. If you have accumulated a lot of stuff that you do not see yourself getting rid of for a while and simply need a place to store them without the expense of storage facilities, building a shed on your property is an excellent option.
If a do it yourself shed kit make sense for you, you only need basic carpentry skills and some extra time on your hands. A new storage shed can be an extremely functional and economical addition to your property especially if you decide to sell your property sometime in the future. We all can never have enough storage space!
You will first need to obtain a building permit if necessary in the community that you live in. After obtaining a building permit, you will then need a good set of professionally drawn up plans. You may be able to find some free plans but if you go this route, be sure to have the plans reviewed by a professional for propriety to ensure that you do not have headaches and other building issues later on because of defective plans.
A good set of plans should have detailed step by step instructions, a full material list to the last nail and measurements as well as helpful photos to guide you during this project.
They should also include lumber cut sizes so that you are sure to buy the right amount of wood and have it cut to the right sizes to fit together. Not all plans come like this so make sure you get some that do. Unfortunately most free plans are simply drawings and you have to guess on the materials you will need which could be costly since you will not be able to develop a proper budget that you can stick to.
The proper investment in the design aspects of the shed will actually end up saving you money when you build the shed in terms of the material cost and the actual time spent on labor. You may be able to borrow the tools needed to further save you money. All you would then need to plan for after getting the blue prints and the materials and tools, would be when you plan to start the project and when you plan to complete it.
