Shed Demolition – Tools and Feasibility of Tearing Down a Wooden Shed Held by Nails

OH, looks like fun! Love to demo small buildings. Basic tools will be great. Large rip claw hammers, pry bars, a good 4 foot demo bar, a circular saw, and MOST IMPORTANT tool would be a good reciprocating saw with long bi-metal demo blades.

Be careful, start at the top, remove the roof panels. cut off the rafters one at a time. then either cut and knock down the walls and dismember, or take off the sheathing first, then disassemble or cut off the framing.

Wear good gloves, boots, and eye protection. I dumpster is a good idea also.

Sounds like cheap is a motivation, but there's a relationship between depth of dig and cost of materials.

• At 24" of cover you can use plain cable such as UF.
• At 18" of cover you can use cheapie PVC conduit or EMT.
• At 6" of cover you can use Rigid metal conduit.

So as expensive as Rigid might be, it might be significantly cheaper than renting a trencher if you can hand-dig or hydro-dig with a hose to 6".

If you run conduit, you can use THWN-2 single wires instead of expensive, balky cable, and you can go cheap now and add more or larger wires later. If you use metal conduit, you don't need a ground wire.

Also if you are cheap, the first thing to shortcut is the 3% voltage drop thing - that was always an old wives tale, is usually computed wrong anyway, and is simply not needed. Also, 100' distances are within 3% even at statutory max current!

• For 20A, use 12 AWG UF or THWN in 1/2" conduit.
• For 30A, 10 AWG " " " 1/2" conduit.
• For 40A, 8 AWG " " " 3/4" conduit
• For 60A, 6 AWG copper ... ... 3/4" conduit or 4 AWG Aluminum in 1" conduit.