Gonna build a shed

So I settled on a 8x10 lean to style shed (I prefer to call it a single slope roof), I just ordered about $900 in materials set to be delivered to my home Today mid day.

I'm off work for the weekend and don't go back until Wednesday of next week so we'll see how much we manage to get done. I'm going to go buy a skill saw and a better hammer for framing and have a very busy weekend of shed building.

I must have had a significant brain fart between when I measured the space and started drawing the shed. The space would have accommodated a 6x8 or 8x8 shed, but there is no chance in hell a 8x10 fits without significant reworking the area. So the first order of business for me will be cutting a large chunk of a rotting crap deck off and disposing of that material.

Parts list
6         Pier blocks
2         2x6 10' treated
6         2x6 8' treated
3         4x8 3/4" Tongue and Grove OSB
25       2x4 8' framing lumber
33       2x4 10 framing lumber
2         2x4 12' Framing lumber
4         4x8 1/2" TLL waferwood OSB
5         4x9 1/2" TLL waferwood OSB
5         4x8 7/16 OSB
6         10' Metal roofing
2         lbs of framing nails

Gonna need a shed

One of the finer points of home ownership (particularly when you have children) is trying to deal with the accumulation of stuff.

Stuff is expensive, it requires maintenance and most annoyingly it takes up space.   Hobbies and activities all have accompanying needs for stuff.  That stuff eats up every open spot in your home until...you're gonna need a shed.   My property already has a shed, unfortunately it's hanging precariously on stilts as the people that built the shed didn't really consider drainage and nearly 1/5 of the ground under it has washed away.  In the Pacific Northwest watershed management is pretty much what owning property is about.  I live on a hill (are there any actual flat spots in the PNW that aren't in a flood plain?) and the shed is at the bottom of a driveway, the paved driveway acts as a natural river to push the sometimes alarming rainfall right under the shed. I mitigated the worst of the water issues by damning the water from going under the shed, and chiseled a notch in the retaining wall lip that was preventing the water from continuing on down the hill, but I'm stuck with a shed that I want to tear down to repair the washed out section and put in a proper retaining wall with appropriate drainage installed.

The shed is full. Pretty much as full as it can be. Full of stuff, and it's going to take time to tear down the shed, fix the wall and rebuild it, which means that stuff has to come out of the shed and be somewhere. My house sits on about .38 acre so I have some footprint to play with and I have a spot picked out for an auxiliary shed so I've been busily playing with shed design ideas.  The current shed is a 10x12 which according to the planning laws I can find on my cities website is the largest you can make without a permit.  I've read it several times and there's language about how close to property lines it can be, but nothing that says you cannot have more than one. The space I'm looking at isn't large enough for a that, so I'm playing with either an 8x10 or 8x8, the biggest factor at the moment is cost. 10' 4x4's seem to be about double the cost of 8' ones.  I could try to do it on the cheap and use 2x6's, but I'm just not sure that's the route to go.