# The worst shed build in America. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938 "2013-04-17T14:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/1 "2013-04-17T14:26:29Z")
This is hilarious and scary at the same time: [http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/showthread.php/146566-Build-to-Fail-Fail-to-Build.-What-is-this-I-don-t-even](http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/showthread.php/146566-Build-to-Fail-Fail-to-Build.-What-is-this-I-don-t-even) Pages 1, 5 and 7 will give you an overview. Funny photoshops around 24 or so. Someone even made one of those Hitler videos about it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/2 "2013-04-17T14:41:57Z")
Hah! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/3 "2013-04-17T14:45:50Z")
By astonishing coincidence, a colleague of mine tweeted just this morning asking if anyone knew of a good architect for a shed. I have to send him this link. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/4 "2013-04-17T15:30:20Z")
Wow. That makes the temporary things we build at the Renaissance Faire look like we hired Mike Holmes by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/5 "2013-04-17T15:47:41Z")
I once had neighbors who bought one of those $899.00 open air garages. He decided to build walls using particleboard. What a disaster that was. He bought a few sheets at a time and used bungees to hold them in place. The first pieces were wet and crumbling apart before he was halfway done. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/6 "2013-04-17T15:58:25Z")
I had to share a link with my husband. We’re about to tear down a shed that took a tree to the roof - I suggested I might have found someone to build us a new one! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/7 "2013-04-17T16:46:23Z")
When I was a teenager the neighbor widow down the street decided to build her kids a playhouse. She had never built anything before. Ran into a problem and asked for help. My dad spent perhaps a couple of hours showing her how to figure the roof slope, notch rafters, etc. It came out WAY better than this shed. Rafters layed flat…sheesh, some people really are clueless. And yet the floor supports (I hesitate to call them joists) are standing on edge. I didn’t make it to the roofing part. Wonder if they will start shingling at the peak? It reminds me of stuff we threw together with scrap lumber when we were like 6 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/8 "2013-04-17T17:03:12Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > By astonishing coincidence, a colleague of mine tweeted just this morning asking if anyone knew of a good architect for a shed. I have to send him this link. As a real Architect–that hurt my eyes to watch that go up. The thought process was the amazing part. I don’t give that one season before it collapses. Maybe it has already, I didn’t get to the end of that thread yet. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/9 "2013-04-17T17:44:07Z")
I knew exactly what you were going to post! Unfortunately, I don’t it will ever be finished- I’m really hoping to see the final vision that the artist has in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Shearer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@Shearer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shearer)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/10 "2013-04-17T17:45:26Z")
British Columbia is in America now? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/11 "2013-04-17T17:46:20Z")
North America… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/12 "2013-04-17T17:47:45Z")
> [@Shearer](#): > > British Columbia is in America now? North America? ETA: Jinx. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/13 "2013-04-17T20:49:14Z")
I feel bad for the guy, obviously he’s working his ass off on the thing. D: ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/14 "2013-04-17T20:56:15Z")
That’s the funniest shit I’ve seen in a while. Can’t wait to get home and check out the video. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/15 "2013-04-17T23:03:52Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > I feel bad for the guy, obviously he’s working his ass off on the thing. D: Only half of it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/16 "2013-04-18T00:18:01Z")
I’m surprised at the shed’s strength. Theres a point in the video where they stack at least six sheets of plywood in one spot on the roof. Then this guy gets up there sheeting the roof. I thought for sure that stack of plywood would collapse the bad framing. But it held up. From a distance it doesn’t look that bad finished and painted. Close up it looks like crap. 😉 But it is probably just storage and workshop space anyhow. That has to be some of the worst framing I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/17 "2013-04-18T00:46:57Z")
I love the “trim” around the windows. What attention to detail. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/18 "2013-04-18T01:47:36Z")
I love it. Page 7 also has a timelapse video of the thing being built. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/19 "2013-04-18T04:28:46Z")
The incipient non-Euclidean warpage of it makes my brain hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938/20 "2013-04-18T05:40:39Z")
I don’t see how it’s possible to build something that bad unless it was an art project. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-shed-build-in-america/655938.md?page=2)