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How to Fix a Leaky Steel Garden Shed? Jay Chan 08-01-2008
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Posted by Jay Chan on August 1, 2008, 10:17 am


I have a rusty steel garden shed in my backyard. Its roof has
developed leaks. What's the good way to fix the leaks?

Of course, the best way is to repair it with something that won't
rust. But that shed is too close to the property line and is
currently grandfathered by the code. If I rebuilt it, I would have to
keep the new shed far away from the property line to conform to the
new code requirement. But my backyard is small; therefore, I really
don't want to do this. All I can do now is to fix the steel shed, and
I want to do this in a way that I don't need to keep going back to re-
fix the fixed roof.

Any idea? Thanks in advance for any info.

Jay Chan

Posted by Tom G on August 1, 2008, 1:41 pm



>I have a rusty steel garden shed in my backyard. Its roof has
> developed leaks. What's the good way to fix the leaks?
>
> Of course, the best way is to repair it with something that won't
> rust. But that shed is too close to the property line and is
> currently grandfathered by the code. If I rebuilt it, I would have to
> keep the new shed far away from the property line to conform to the
> new code requirement. But my backyard is small; therefore, I really
> don't want to do this. All I can do now is to fix the steel shed, and
> I want to do this in a way that I don't need to keep going back to re-
> fix the fixed roof.
>
> Any idea? Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Jay Chan

Can you get away with putting up a roof over the existing shed supported by
it's own poles kind of like you see as picnic shelter houses in parks. I've
seen this done over old mobile homes. I knew of a guy who couldn't get a
permit to build a new house on his river lot so he built a new house
around the old (called it remodeling for which he could get a permit) and
then dismantled the old house and carried it out the doors. Then he put up
interior walls in the new house.

Tom G.



Posted by Stormin Mormon on August 1, 2008, 1:55 pm


I've done some mickey mouse fix with sheet metal and lots of liquid nails
construction adhesive. You may be able to apply this up from inside, so the
shed appearance remains the same. However, it's likely a corrugated roof.
How about a roof coat of the silver stuff made for trailers?

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I have a rusty steel garden shed in my backyard. Its roof has
developed leaks. What's the good way to fix the leaks?

Of course, the best way is to repair it with something that won't
rust. But that shed is too close to the property line and is
currently grandfathered by the code. If I rebuilt it, I would have to
keep the new shed far away from the property line to conform to the
new code requirement. But my backyard is small; therefore, I really
don't want to do this. All I can do now is to fix the steel shed, and
I want to do this in a way that I don't need to keep going back to re-
fix the fixed roof.

Any idea? Thanks in advance for any info.

Jay Chan



Posted by HeyBub on August 1, 2008, 2:48 pm


Jay Chan wrote:
> I have a rusty steel garden shed in my backyard. Its roof has
> developed leaks. What's the good way to fix the leaks?
>
> Of course, the best way is to repair it with something that won't
> rust. But that shed is too close to the property line and is
> currently grandfathered by the code. If I rebuilt it, I would have to
> keep the new shed far away from the property line to conform to the
> new code requirement. But my backyard is small; therefore, I really
> don't want to do this. All I can do now is to fix the steel shed, and
> I want to do this in a way that I don't need to keep going back to re-
> fix the fixed roof.
>
> Any idea? Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Jay Chan

You don't have to rebuild it, just repair it. With a "replacement" roof.
Then, in a few weeks, a new door. Then a new wall. Then another. etc.

I saw a hatchet billed as the very hatchet used by young George Washington
to chop down the legendary cherry tree.

The owner said in 250 years the hatchet had had its head replaced twice and
the handle eight times, but other than that it was the original hatchet.



Posted by terry on August 1, 2008, 6:08 pm


> Jay Chan wrote:
> > I have a rusty steel garden shed in my backyard. =A0Its roof has
> > developed leaks. =A0What's the good way to fix the leaks?
>
> > Of course, the best way is to repair it with something that won't
> > rust. =A0But that shed is too close to the property line and is
> > currently grandfathered by the code. =A0If I rebuilt it, I would have t=
o
> > keep the new shed far away from the property line to conform to the
> > new code requirement. =A0But my backyard is small; therefore, I really
> > don't want to do this. =A0All I can do now is to fix the steel shed, an=
d
> > I want to do this in a way that I don't need to keep going back to re-
> > fix the fixed roof.
>
> > Any idea? =A0Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> > Jay Chan
>
> You don't have to rebuild it, just repair it. With a "replacement" roof.
> Then, in a few weeks, a new door. Then a new wall. Then another. etc.
>
> I saw a hatchet billed as the very hatchet used by young George Washingto=
n
> to chop down the legendary cherry tree.
>
> The owner said in 250 years the hatchet had had its head replaced twice a=
nd
> the handle eight times, but other than that it was the original hatchet.-=
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>
> - Show quoted text -

Local lawyer, now a judge btw, bought a house and remodelled it. The
story goes that ultimately only one original wall remained 'as was'
but the house has been transformed entirely.

So some creative remodelling might be in order?

However more practically if it's mainly the roof leaking?
Maybe one could secure some plywood to the existing structure; cover
that with roll roofing (or regular asphalt shingles) etc. Next the
existing rusty walls could be used, if structurally sound enough, as
support for new siding to 'repair' it's appearance.

Modified trailers CAN be an eyesore blight on the landscape in a
regular community of houses. However there is at least one here where
if one is aware you can say "BTW there is a trailer buried inside that
structure; but you wouldn't know it from the exterior view of the
house".

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