RE: Question about wood sheds in The Wood Shed

[firefighterjake]

I'm going to be building a woodshed in the next few weeks . . . starting this weekend. Since this shed will be up on blocks it will have an actual wood stringer floor with planking over that . . . with spaces to allow air flow vs. a gravel base, concrete floor or pallet floor.

My question . . . this shed will be 12 x 20 and I should be stacking the wood 5-6 feet high max . . . what size stringers (2 x 6, 2 x 8, 2 x 10) should I use to bear up the weight and at what spacing interval?

 

[LLigetfa]

The answer of course depends on how many supporting blocks you have under them, what size, and what spacing the blocks are.

 

[Hurricane]

There will be a lot of weight on those floor joists, I would think that one support in the middle minimum, I would use two supports if it were me. The other question is what planking are you using 2X or 5/4 ? and what space between joists, 12, 16, or 24 inches. These all make the decision different. I would do no more than 16 in and use two center supports because I would never want to open it up and fix it afterward.
just my 2cents

 

[TreePapa]

I would think it would be much less expensive to use more supports (pier blocks, prolly) than to use larger framing.

Peace,

- Sequoia