i like to use sheet metal roofing because it's easy to apply it doesn't require sheeting,
and it lasts a very long time. Manufacturers these days recommend putting the screws into
the flat parts of the sheets but i like to put them on top of the ribs like people used to do
because you run into much less problems with leakage that way. For the back of the roof i'm
bending the edge of the sheet metal down to cover the ends of the purlins i'm using a couple of two
by fours clamped together as an improvised bending brake it works surprisingly well
and now with the sheet metal bent i know how long the purlins need to be for them to fit exactly.
With the backhand shed quite a ways off the ground it's much easier to work from the top
than from the end i still need a ridge cap to cover the top of the roof but they were
charging way too much for that so i'll make my own i'll start by cutting a strip out of a roof
panel which i can do by just scoring it with a utility knife and then bending it until it breaks
it can take an awful lot of bending back and forth if you don't score it deep enough
this would work okay as it is but i'm gonna notch it around the ribs here
just to avoid that gap so bugs won't get into it i'm using lefty and righty
tin snips so that the notch i'm cutting out will get pushed up from either side.
Well that turned out okay but if time is money making your own ridge cap isn't the best idea
i'm insulating this shed because that way i'm much less likely to
run into condensation issues in terms of storing stuff but more likely the kids
will enjoy it more because it'll be warmer in there for playing in there in the winter
i've got no soffits on the roofline which means i have to fit the sheet metal around these bits here
and especially this corner this is where it gets complicated resulting in a part that looks like
this which is clever but not wise because it takes forever to make and again using my
improvised sheet metal brake to bend the sheet metal to fit around the back corner of the shed
for the next corner i got much less fancy with the fit
but that resulted in a spot underneath the eaves that isn't covered by
metal so i made a piece of sheet metal to go behind it just for cosmetically
i deliberately ordered not enough sheet metal because i had three used sheets that i was
going to use to cover the back but it turns out with the extra cover sheet and what was left
over from making the ridge cap and having one spare sheet i just barely had enough
to cover the back with a sheet metal of that style
the dark sheet in there is the cover sheet that's the sheet that they add just so that the
sheets that you're paying for don't get scuffed up and now there's just one more piece to add
and i've got one sheet left over this one i'll use that one to clad the door with
and i didn't use a lot of screws on the walls for now because i still want to put a window
here or maybe here but first i have to find that and make it and for
now i just want it to be closed off so it doesn't rain in there