Was looking at building this shed..

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Thats a great use of material if you can get them. Unfortunatly where I live you would have had to tear the shed down and been fined for putting it up. We have very strict building codes and before you could build this you would have had to submit engineered drawings to the county with calculated wind loads, Straps, bracing, offsets from the property line etc. It would not pass our building codes im afraid. Still it was a neat Idea and well executed.
Mike
 
Building codes here.....well they stink to high heaven!
Fighting off the pallet gathering people might be fun? Seems there is quite the market for used pallets....




Scott (fun project though) B
 
Sad, but true. Where are the hurricane straps????
mredburn said:
Thats a great use of material if you can get them. Unfortunatly where I live you would have had to tear the shed down and been fined for putting it up. We have very strict building codes and before you could build this you would have had to submit engineered drawings to the county with calculated wind loads, Straps, bracing, offsets from the property line etc. It would not pass our building codes im afraid. Still it was a neat Idea and well executed.
Mike
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That's actually kind of interesting...wouldn't want it next to my house as a permanent structure...but wondering if (other than earth anchors missing) it would pass most building codes if used as a temp storage building....
 
Quite ingenious…! Nice to see someone recycling used pallets like that. If you can find a recycle yard with pallets from all over the world, you'll occasionally find exotic woods used in the 4X4's, too.

The only thing about this shed – it would almost certainly collapse here on the west coast. A few years ago, we got a big dump of wet concrete-like show, and thousands of sheds, decks, and greenhouses collapsed. Few if any of them had been built to local codes that take snow load into consideration. This gentleman probably doesn't need to worry about snow where he is.
 
For most places you better get permission to take the pallets. Where I worked they were sold to a guy that resold them, and he fixed up the ones with broken boards. If you just pick them up without permission you might get hit with theft charges.
 
dogcatcher said:
For most places you better get permission to take the pallets. Where I worked they were sold to a guy that resold them, and he fixed up the ones with broken boards. If you just pick them up without permission you might get hit with theft charges.
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Here in Virginia Beach there are people on cregslist (spelling) giving them away. Places like lumber liquidators, granite suppliers, etc.
 
Here, you can do anything you want as long as it is 120 square feet or smaller. You can even increase the size another 120 sqft as long as it looks like an add on.
 
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