How to Build a Deck Frame for a 10X14 Shed

Lay out the foundation for the shed and mark the building corners with stakes or paint marks and place the foundation materials in place. Solid concrete blocks or pressure-treated wood beams or timbers are often used. Place the foundation pieces evenly under the planned shed space with the foundation supports providing contact on at least two points on each side of the 10-by-14-foot deck frame. Level the skids or blocks in both horizontal directions using a 4-foot carpenter's level.

Build a frame of the floor deck. Use 2-by-6-inch treated lumber to build a 10-foot by 14-foot perimeter frame. Connect the corners with three 16d box nails at each corner.

Measure distance between the two 14-foot perimeter boards. Cut 13 2-by 6-inch treated boards to this length. These boards will be the floor joists.

Locate the positions for each floor joist on each side of the 14-foot long perimeter frame. Start measuring at the outside of one of the end pieces and mark at 16-inch intervals.

Nail the floor joists to the perimeter frame pieces, centering the top of the floor joist on the mark from the previous step. Use three 16 box nails at each end of each floor joist.

Cover the floor joists with 3/4-inch exterior grade plywood. Nail the plywood to the joists and framework with cement-coated size 8 nails. The cement coating serves as a glue to hold the nails firmly in the joists.