Hey folks. Looking for input on a furshed i'm thinking about building this or likely next year.

Wood floor on piers or concrete slab considering any blood, fat etc for cleaning.

Exterior door from hardware store with threshold, or no threshold homemade door? i'm thinking about sweeping gunk out vs keeping rodents out with airtight door.

Comfortable size? 12x12, 16x20 etc. 8 foot high or 10, 12 etc for hanging stuff off the trusses? I like a bit of elbow room and HATE feeling cramped. I won't be doing 10% of the numbers you guys probably do, but I just collect....stuff. Want to keep everything trapping related out here. all my totes with coil springs, conibears snares, snare making stuff, lures, gloves and gear you name it.

If this doubles as a game cleaning area, should I just go with a concrete slab with a tiny grade for a floor drain? We hunt deer mostly, but will chase rabbits, grouse, pheasant and bear sometimes. also process striped bass and some small fish.

It will be wood siding with a metal roof. I might build windows for it but will likely buy them for cheap from work.

Anything you guys wish you included in your fur shed that you didn't? A wood stove is a must I'm Thinking.

Thanks,

Carpenter

Lots of lighting.
How are you going to heat It?
I would go with a concrete slab.
I would put in a ceiling and insulate. It will be a lot easier to heat.

Just a thought...design it big...than double it, lol
No one ever says this building is too big...

I built my shed 2 years ago. It's 20x20. G is right- should have made it twice as big. Anyhow it's on a concrete slab, 2x6 eight foot walls - should have used 10 footers. Scissor jack trusses. Insulation in the walls and ceiling then finished both w OSB. Woodstove for heat that i rarely need to use. Wired receptacles and LED flush mount lights. Initially powered it with a generator. Ran underground power to it this spring and soooo glad I did. Generator is OK but so nice to go out to the shed and just flick a switch now.

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You can't build it too big. I'd have it weather and rodent tight. Pour a slab, leave the roof high enough for a skinning machine. I put down a tarp on the floor then cover it with old carpet. This keeps blood off the cement, and you just roll up the carpet and throw it out for clean up. Comfortable for walking on too. Lots of lights too as has been said. ... to add to what others have mentioned. Big Bob always like to remind you a second story is cheap compared to a bigger floor, and works great for storage.

I'd go with electric heat and skip the wood stove. Electric gives steady, constant heat and doesn't take up valuable room like a stove does.

Find some plastex paneling for the walls in the skinning area and use treated 1X4s for the bottom of the wall trim, think ventilation from simple fans to wall ducts depending on your setup.

Cup hooks on 1X2 along the ceiling can hold a lot of fur out of the way.

If I were to do a concrete floor, I would consider a drain in the middle of the floor in the skinning/fleshing area and frp on the walls. Wash the whole thing down at the end of season.

I added vertical drain pipe into the cement floor for future add ons like water. I also sank an anchor into the floor for pulling truck parts for body work.

You could run your electric pipe in the floor to avoid coming in from the outside through the wall.

At least 1-2 dehumidifier, yes drains, 16x20, tall ceilings., 3-4 fans

Threshold on the people door, have a 9 foot roll up door no threshold.

You could put in a French drain in the middle of the floor. Bury a 55-gallon tank cut out both ends and fill it with gravel. Put in grate and have it flush with the floor.

With boats and buildings bigger is always better. You’ll never say you wished it was smaller, but if you go small you’ll be cussing yourself forever

I'd run my electric wire in romex or conduit to prevent rodents from chewing on the wires and causing shorts you can't find unless you remove the wall board. I like having a stainless 3 bay sink and hot water for cleaning up.

build it as big as you can, 24x24? 12 high for puller, or to hang game, cement floor with drain even if drain just goes outside on the ground, water and a sink a must, good lighting, yes on wood heat, paint inside wall white brightens up the inside,

more importantly is it just a fur shed or a fur shed that you use for other storage? I have a converted chicken coop that is 10x12 with a little wood stove it's tight but serves me enough room. at one time I had 60 coyote an near 30 cats finished hanging and i barely had room to skin/flesh

Cement floor, I've used wood floored ones, and they work, but if you are building new I would go with cement. Drain would be nice, if the concrete is sloped properly so it actually drains. I would still probably throw cardboard or something on the floor to catch the majority of the gunk. I got a big roll(as in a couple hundred pounds big) of heavy paper (think poster board) that was plastic coated on one side from a friend that works at the local pulp mill once. I used that for years on a wood floored fur shed, staple it down and then when it got bad just pull it up and throw it away, no grease or blood on the floor. With concrete I would highly recommend painting or sealing it, makes it clean up much easier.

Good thoughts here. Might be nigh impossible to run water here. the well is probably at least.... gosh, 2-300 ft away. I may be able to run electrical underground somehow. Piers would be easier for sure but I may just end up with a concrete slab. thats what I was originally thinking and sounds like most of you folks are confirming that.

I was wanting to build a small deck out front of the door but that may make clean out impossible.

Do rodents bother furs at all? or are they just after the fats and all the gunk?

Mice love furs so do bugs in warm weather, mouse proofing and trapping mice is ongoing but it’s free K-9 bait. Screens and a few sprays of bug killer daily goes a long ways if the bugs are out.