Great shed good recycling I used to get ten bucks for a pallet. Pulling wood apart is easier if you wet the timber with a hose. Floor boards can be separated this way with out losing any boards Cheers Stewart

Get the pallets used for block paving, they aren't "double skinned" and can easily be knocked apart with a sledge hammer.

I'm building a 6'4 x 8' shed out of pallets as well. I pull the pallets apart by using a heavy duty crowbar and just bouncing gently on it to pry up the planks. I hardly lose any. The sorting is a real pain. Now the missus wants me to add a "Tiki" bar on one side for drinks in the garden.

Hi Fraser, thanks for your comments. I like your technique for separating the pallets. I saved myself a lot of time by cladding the shed in narrow bays of slats of irregular width.

I'm building my own 'pallet shed' right now - a labour of love - you did well with 100 hours, but I see you had some bid lengths of crate to make the initial frame.. My technique for separating pallets works well - a hand axe in the joint between the two pieces is then hit with a hammer to open up the joint a few mm - the I use a reciprocating saw and saw down through the joint with a metal blade - chops the nails like bitter/knife etc then you have a huge stack of lumber to play with! My biggest loss of time is sorting & grading all the wood so it's the same size (thickness & height) so you get even lines of planking... Hope to be posting pictures of mine before the summer's over!!

Thanks Welfre, the batteries to power them cost as much as the shed and stove together, but I love Shedmas so I didn't mind.

great shed Simon, love the fairy lights at Christmas,

Hi Teen. Unfortunately punching the nails wasn't my technique, it has suggested by 'H' and I haven't given it a try yet. I'd guess the idea is to use a nail punch and push the head of the nail through the wood so the slats just fall off. Thanks for commenting, Simon

Hi H Can you explain what you meant by punching the nails out so they fall apart more easy as I'd love to make a shed with pallets but can't prize the wood off without splitting it!

Congratulations. A shed to me proud of - all your own work. How's the allotment coming on?

Thanks Denny. Some of those pallets get re-used but a lot just go to landfill so everybody wins if you make a shed out of them.

superb shed, when you think all those pallets lying about?

Thanks for the compliments guys. 'H', thanks for the tip, I'll give that a try.

Nice shed mate. Don't pull pallets apart just punch the nails through the planks - they fall apart easy.

Great design! Love it.

Hi Pete, thanks for commenting. I think you're probably right - but it's too late, I sploshed emulsion all over it at the weekend. Actually the photo flattered it a bit as it wasn't that effective in the flesh and I wanted to go with a beach-hut theme (you've seen who's judging Shed of the Year next year?) so it's now poppy and magnolia.

Arrrh!! Don't paint it as it looks great at the mo. Just crupinol it, as I particually like the wood patterning on the door. Superb.