This is a shed where I tore an old one down, relocated it and then added on to it. The original shed was made out of very heavy red and white oak. Momma trying to drive a nail in it. Weighs tons, dragging it up the hill was an couple day job. Just the siding is very heavy. That is a plank type vinyl.
Overall it is 26' x 8. The addition was eight foot out of standard 2 x 4 construction. Everything was beg, borrow or steal. The most expensive stuff was the roofing and siding. Total once done I had ~$600 additional out of my pocket. I don't know if it could withstand a 140 MPH wind but it should be better than those crap tacky sheds they sell.
Just for chuckles I costed out a shed that size local as a kit, they wanted $8400 for a chipboard stupid thing with no type of siding. Don't think that included the roofing either.
Best if you can build them yourself. One good trick is to get salvaged or used materials. When I was in the construction business, if we torn something down that was good, I tried to take it down pretty careful. I build two really nice very large sheds from used materials. We also would make it up in like a kit form and sold those when times were lean. Still was a tough buck even with most of the materials free. I don't think I would waste my money on any of those store bought cheap sheds. Just getting so very lil for the money. Plus if you want it to be really wind resistant, must have some way of really fixing it to the earth. Ways down from me one of those tin sheds was flipped over by wind last month and it couldn't have been much more than 50 MPH.
Really big hurricane might take the roofing off my lil beauty, but I would bet it could not blow it down. Took me more than a weekend to put that puppy together.
Old shed setting was down back in the snow, was in tough shape.
New relocated shed, old section is on the left, new section is to the right of the doors. The new design added the front peak and overhang. Windows are new replacement vinyl that I got for squat.
Door hinges were out of my junk box, routed into as an inset type installation using a *** I made up. Got a tad more work on it one of these days, shelfing and pegboards and workbenches. At some point got to get electrical power out there. Been a low priority until I finally get most of the house done.
Both doors open out to give a huge opening. Normally one door has top and bottom latches and the right door locks into it but the left door can be opened for a very large opening when required. This design duplicates how most sheds I have built had their doors. Couple of those sheds had industrial 48" x 6 foot high metal clad doors. Just way out of sight in shed World.
All that wood trim on the exterior is oak planking that I got local from an Amish sawmill. Might not even have to paint or stain it. They don't, just let it weather, turns a light grey over time. This is definitely Boss Shed for my neck of the woods. The Amish do build and sell sheds but they tend not to be this big, seen some nice ones by them. All done with hand tools. Not all that cheap tho, but they will deliver. One of my neighbors is talking about getting one but he has been doing that since I got mine done.
Inside - New section, This was actually built and over wintered with one end open, before the addition was added in the next spring.
Old section on the inside
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Well, Here is my lil beauty.....
