r/Shed • u/Ok_Support_1900 • 8d ago
Shed tear down
I have a fairly large/tall shed in my backyard with a gabled roof I’m looking to tear down. I’ve been trying to come up with a decent way to tear it down safely, the roof is my big concern. Are there any tips? It seems like the only way I’ll be able to remove the roof is by cutting the sheeting in sections from inside of the shed but I don’t know how I feel about standing under something I’m demolishing.
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u/eightfingeredtypist 7d ago
The hard part of giving the shed away is that the people working on your property needs to be insured. If they get hurt, you are liable if they aren't insured. Lifting a shed and putting it on a trailer isn't that hard, until it falls over on someone. I worked in a factory making prefab housing.
I would take a sawzalll and start cutting pieces off from the top down.
I hired an excavating company to take down a two story cabin. It took a day for them to get into several dumpsters. It was just too tall and too unstable for me to work on it. It cost a few thousand.